Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how GM IApps handles information in its applications and specifically how Apps for Google Drive & Docs handles data received from Google APIs.

For GM IApps applications generally, see our site privacy policy.

1. Google user data accessed

When a user chooses to connect a Google account, Apps for Google Drive & Docs requests:

• Basic account information: Google account identifier, name, email address, and profile picture.
• Google Drive data: existing file and folder names and identifiers, MIME types, sizes, dates, parent folders, starred and trashed state, thumbnails, links, storage quota and usage, changes, comments, permissions, and sharing details.
• File content: the content of files the user chooses to open, preview, download, export, edit, analyze, upload, or otherwise act on. Google Docs content is read and edited through Google APIs using the same Google Drive permission.

The app does not collect aggregated or anonymized Google user data for analytics, advertising, or profiling.

2. How Google user data is used

Google user data is used only to provide or improve user-facing features chosen by the user, including:

• Connecting and identifying the selected Google account.
• Browsing, sorting, filtering, and searching existing Drive files and folders.
• Reading, previewing, downloading, and exporting files.
• Creating and uploading files and folders.
• Reading and editing Google Docs.
• Renaming, moving, copying, starring, trashing, restoring, and permanently deleting files after user action and, for destructive actions, confirmation.
• Viewing and changing file sharing permissions.
• Displaying storage information, file changes, comments, notifications, duplicate candidates, and cleanup candidates.
• Maintaining local drafts, transfer progress, and limited offline metadata.

Google user data is not used for targeted advertising, credit or lending decisions, surveillance, sale, or any unrelated purpose.

3. Storage and protection

• OAuth access and refresh credentials are stored in the macOS Keychain.
• Necessary metadata caches, drafts, temporary previews, notifications, and transfer history are stored locally inside the app's macOS sandbox and are protected by macOS access controls.
• Data is transmitted to Google APIs over encrypted HTTPS connections.
• GM IApps does not operate a backend server that receives or stores Google Drive files or Google OAuth credentials.
• The app does not include third-party advertising, analytics, or data-broker SDKs.

Users should protect access to their Mac and Google account. No security method can guarantee absolute protection.

4. Data sharing and transfers

GM IApps does not sell Google user data. GM IApps does not share Google user data with advertisers, data brokers, or unrelated third parties.

The app sends data to:

• Google, as necessary to authenticate the account and perform the Google Drive and Google Docs actions the user selects.
• OpenAI, only for an optional Cloud AI action and only after a separate, prominent in-app consent. The selected document text, the user's instruction, and a random installation identifier that is not derived from the user's Google identity are sent directly to OpenAI over HTTPS. The app uses the OpenAI Responses API with response storage disabled. OpenAI states that API data is not used to train its general models by default; limited abuse-monitoring logs may be retained for up to 30 days under OpenAI's API data controls. The user can revoke future Cloud AI consent in the app's Settings.

Google Workspace data is not transferred to a third-party service for that service to train a general AI/ML model.

5. AI/ML and Limited Use

Raw or derived Google Workspace data is not used to develop, improve, or train a general or shared AI/ML model. Optional Cloud AI processing is limited to providing the specific result requested by the user.

The use of raw or derived user data received from Google Workspace APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

6. Retention and deletion

GM IApps does not retain Google Drive data on a GM IApps server.

Locally stored credentials and Google-derived data remain on the user's Mac until they are no longer needed for the feature, the user deletes an individual item where the app offers that control, or the user removes the account:

1. Open Apps for Google Drive & Docs.
2. Open Settings.
3. Select Accounts.
4. Select Remove Account & Delete Local Data…
5. Confirm the Google account shown.

This action deletes that account's OAuth credentials, Google-derived metadata cache, drafts, notifications, temporary previews, and transfer history from the Mac. It does not delete remote files in Google Drive. Files are deleted from Google Drive only when the user explicitly chooses a trash or permanent-delete action.

To also revoke the app's upstream access, visit the Google Account connections page at myaccount.google.com/connections, select Apps for Google Drive & Docs, and remove access.

Data already transmitted for an optional Cloud AI request is handled under OpenAI's API data controls described above. Revoking Cloud AI consent prevents future Cloud AI transmissions.

7. Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact mazeneldeeb121@gmail.com.