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Privacy Policy

Effective 2026-10-06 · Eeeemail for macOS

This document tells you exactly what data Eeeemail handles, where it goes, and what I (the developer) can and cannot see. If anything is unclear, get in touch via Support.

Short version

• Your email never touches a server I run. The app talks directly to your mail provider over IMAP and SMTP, and stores messages locally in a database on your Mac.
• No telemetry. The app does not phone home with usage analytics, crash reports, or "anonymized improvement data." It never has, and it never will.
• The only network calls Eeeemail makes are to your mail provider, and — if you leave it enabled — periodic fetches of public anti-tracker blocklists. No personal data is sent in those fetches.
• Your subscription is handled entirely by Apple through the Mac App Store. Apple is the seller. I never see your name, email, or payment details — only Apple's aggregate sales reports.
• No cookies or trackers on this website. It's static HTML with no analytics and no third-party scripts.

What data the app stores on your Mac

• The contents of your mail folders, fetched over IMAP (subject, body, sender, recipients, attachments — same as any mail client).
• Account configuration: server hostnames, ports, your email address, your display name. Stored locally inside the app's sandbox container.
• Your mail-account password, stored in the macOS Keychain. The Keychain is system-encrypted at rest; the app reads it on demand.
• When you add an account, "Share this login with Callllendar and my other devices" is ticked unless you untick it. A shared login (address, server settings and password) is saved in your Keychain, and with iCloud Keychain turned on Apple carries it, end to end encrypted, to your own devices. Forgetting a login in Settings removes it from the shared list only; an app that already copied it keeps its copy until you remove the account there.
• Application preferences (theme, layout, sync preferences), stored locally.

None of this leaves your Mac unless you explicitly send mail, forward a message, or print/export.

Network calls the app makes

To your mail provider (IMAP & SMTP)

Standard IMAP fetch and SMTP send, all over TLS. Your mail provider sees what it would see from any IMAP client: your IP, a user-agent string, and the times you connected. I don't see any of this.

To public anti-tracker blocklists (optional)

To strip trackers and warn on risky links, the app ships with bundled snapshots of public blocklists (the Disconnect tracker list, PhishTank, and URLhaus) and — if you leave automatic updates on — periodically fetches refreshed copies from their public sources. These are plain downloads of public lists: the app sends no information about you, your mail, or your browsing in the request. You can turn the updates off in Settings.

What the app does NOT call

The Mac App Store build of Eeeemail contains no licensing or "phone-home" code. There are no license-validation pings and no in-app update checks — Apple handles purchase and updates. There's no analytics or crash-reporting SDK of any kind.

What I (the developer) can see

• Apple's App Store sales reports. Apple gives me aggregate figures — units sold and proceeds, by territory and date. Apple does not share your name, email address, or payment details with me.
• That's it. I don't see what's in your inbox, who you correspond with, what folders you've made, what you've searched for, or anything else inside the running app. None of it leaves your Mac. Even if I wanted to read your mail — I don't — I have no plumbing to do it.

What I do NOT collect

• No mail content, ever. Not yours, not anyone's.
• No usage analytics, no event logs, no "sent X emails this week" stats.
• No crash reports — the app has no crash-reporting integration. If something breaks, please tell me; nothing reaches me automatically.
• No advertising identifiers, no fingerprinting, no cookies on any web property associated with the app.
• No newsletter you didn't ask for. If you ever get email from me, it's because you emailed me first.

Third parties

• Apple is the seller (merchant of record) and provides the operating system, the App Store, and the Keychain (including iCloud Keychain, if you share a login). Apple's privacy policy applies to your purchase: apple.com/legal/privacy.
• The blocklist sources (Disconnect, PhishTank, URLhaus) serve the public anti-tracker lists described above.

That's the entire third-party list. No analytics, no error trackers, no email-marketing tools, no chat widgets, no CRMs — and the Support page contacts me by a plain email link, with no form-processing middleman.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, port, or delete personal data a company holds about you (PIPEDA in Canada, GDPR in the EU/UK, CPRA in California, etc.). Because I hold no personal data about you — your purchase details live with Apple, not me — there's nothing for me to export or delete on the app side. For purchase data, contact Apple. For anything else, reach out and I'll help.

Children

Eeeemail is not directed at children under 13 (or 16 where that's the threshold). I don't knowingly collect data from children — or anyone. If you have a concern, contact me.

Data location

Your mail and app data live on your Mac, inside the app's sandbox container. I don't operate any server that holds your data. Purchase records are held by Apple.

Changes to this policy

I'll update this page when material things change. The "Effective" date above reflects the most recent change.

Contact

Privacy questions, data-access requests, or general "wait, you do what now?" questions: see the email link on the Support page.

— The Eeeemail developer