UP Mail Privacy Policy
UP Mail is an advanced email application for Android designed to enhance your communication experience. It utilizes your existing email provider to send and retrieve messages securely. To ensure optimal functionality, UP Mail requests certain permissions that are critical for its operations:
Permissions Required:
- Read/Modify Your Contacts: UP Mail accesses the names and email addresses in your device’s contacts to offer suggestions and autocomplete features when you compose emails. This functionality makes email composition quicker and more intuitive.
Google API Permissions:
- Read Your Emails: Allows UP Mail to display and organize your emails within the app.
- Compose and Send Emails: Enables you to write and send emails directly from UP Mail, ensuring they appear in your Gmail sent items.
- Permanently Delete Emails: Provides the ability to permanently remove emails from your account based on your actions or settings.
- Full Access to Your Emails: Facilitates comprehensive tasks like searching, labeling, and archiving messages directly in your Gmail account through UP Mail.
Detailed Explanation of Permissions:
For more detailed insights into the specific permissions required by UP Mail, please refer to our detailed permissions guide here.
Use of Sensitive Information:
Sensitive user data, such as contact details and email content, is strictly used for the core functionalities of the app—namely, sending and receiving emails. UP Mail is committed to your privacy:
- No Automatic Data Collection: UP Mail does not automatically collect or send your personal information to the developers or any third parties.
- Logs: Sensitive information is excluded from application logs by default to protect your privacy. Users can opt to include such information in logs for troubleshooting purposes, but this is controlled entirely by user settings.
Compliance with Google API Services:
When using Google/Gmail accounts with UP Mail, any transfer or processing of information received from Google APIs will comply with the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the requirements for limited use.
Additional Privacy Measures and User Control:
- Data Encryption: All data transmitted through UP Mail is encrypted using industry-standard protocols to ensure that your information is secure during transit.
- User Control: Users have full control over their privacy settings within the app, allowing for customization of data sharing and storage preferences.
Security and Consent: You will be asked to authorize these permissions via a secure Google sign-in flow when first using the app. UP Mail employs TLS encryption to ensure the security of your data during transmission.
Use of Sensitive Information: Sensitive user data, such as contact details and email content, is strictly used for the core functionalities of the app—namely, sending and receiving emails. We do not share your personal data with third parties.
Data Storage and Handling: All personal data is stored locally on your device and not on our servers. This approach ensures that you have full control over your data.
User Rights: Users have the ability to access, modify, and delete their data directly from the app’s user account page. This ensures full control over your personal information.
Compliance with International Data Protection Regulations: UP Mail is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for users within the European Union.
Children’s Privacy: UP Mail is not designed for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under this age.
Advertising: UP Mail does not include any form of advertising and does not collect data for advertising purposes.
Updates to Privacy Policy:
This privacy policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes to our information practices. We will notify you of any significant changes by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your UP Mail account or by placing a prominent notice within our application.
For further information or if you have any questions about our privacy practices, please contact our support team at unplugged.com