Privacy Policy

What DriveMail keeps on your iPhone

To work, DriveMail saves a small amount of information on your device only:

• Account details: the email addresses you enter, the email services you switch on, and any spoken nicknames you give your accounts.
• Sign-in credentials: app passwords for iCloud Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail, and Microsoft sign-in tokens for Outlook. These are stored in the iOS Keychain, Apple's secure storage on your iPhone.
• Your preferences: voice, speaking speed, summary and music settings, and your priority senders list. If you add priority senders from Contacts, DriveMail saves only the names and email addresses of the people you pick.

How DriveMail reads and sends email

During a drive, DriveMail connects directly from your iPhone to the email services you have switched on (Apple iCloud Mail, Google Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Microsoft Outlook) over encrypted connections. It uses these connections to:

• notice new messages that arrive after you tap Start driving;
• download those messages so they can be read or summarized aloud;
• mark messages as read after they are read to you;
• send replies only after you hear them read back and say "send it"; and
• save a copy of your reply in your Sent folder, when your email service does not do this itself.

Messages are held in your iPhone's memory only while a drive is running. Emails you skip are remembered only until you stop driving.

Microsoft Outlook sign-in

For Outlook, you sign in on Microsoft's own sign-in page, including any Microsoft Authenticator approval. DriveMail never sees your Microsoft password. Microsoft gives DriveMail permission to read and update your mail, send mail on your behalf, see your basic profile (name and email address), and stay signed in between drives.

Voice, speech, and summaries

• Reading aloud uses Apple's built-in voices on your iPhone.
• Your spoken answers and dictated replies are turned into text by Apple's speech recognition. DriveMail asks for this to happen on your iPhone whenever your device supports it. If on-device recognition isn't available, Apple may process the audio under Apple's Privacy Policy. DriveMail does not record or keep any audio.
• The microphone is used only right after DriveMail asks you a question, which is signaled by a short tone.
• Summaries of long emails are made by Apple Intelligence on your iPhone. Email text is not sent anywhere to be summarized.

What DriveMail does not do

• No analytics, usage tracking, or crash reporting services
• No advertising, and no tracking across other apps or websites
• No third-party software libraries that collect data
• No selling, renting, or sharing of your information
• No servers run by the developer, so there is nowhere for your data to go

Other companies involved

Your email stays with the services you already use, and each handles it under its own privacy policy:

• Apple (iCloud Mail, speech recognition, voices, Apple Intelligence)
• Google (Gmail)
• Yahoo (Yahoo Mail)
• Microsoft (Outlook and Microsoft sign-in)

Removing your information

• Remove an account in DriveMail: in Settings, tap the trash can next to the account and confirm. This deletes its email address, sign-in credentials, and nickname from your iPhone.
• Delete the app: deleting DriveMail removes its settings. To be sure sign-in credentials are also removed, remove your accounts in DriveMail first.
• Cancel DriveMail's access at the source: you can revoke access at any time from your Apple Account (App-Specific Passwords), Google Account (App passwords), Yahoo Account security page, or your Microsoft account's app permissions page.

Children

DriveMail is intended for drivers and is not directed at children under 13. It does not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

DriveMail is developed by Dave Pickles. Questions about privacy in DriveMail? Email jimmy@askjimmy.ca.