Bade — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 12 September 2026

Bade is a private, self-hosted personal assistant operated by its owner (contact bade.admin@gmail.com) for personal use. This policy explains what data Bade accesses and how it is handled.

What Bade accesses

With your explicit authorization through Google, Bade accesses the Gmail account(s) you connect, using the Gmail API scope gmail.modify. Bade reads message metadata and content in order to categorise your mail, applies labels, and — only after you explicitly confirm each action — archives messages, moves them to Trash, or creates draft replies. Bade never sends email on your behalf and never permanently deletes mail.

How your data is used

Message content is processed to sort mail into categories and produce a summary digest. To perform the categorisation, message content may be sent to a third-party large-language-model API (for example Google Gemini or Groq) solely to generate the classification for that run. That content is not used to train those models (per their API terms) and is not retained by Bade after processing.

Storage

Bade stores the OAuth refresh token for each connected account, encrypted at rest, so it can maintain access without repeated sign-ins. Labels are stored within your own mailbox by Google. Bade does not maintain its own copy of your email content — messages are processed transiently and discarded. Bade runs on infrastructure controlled by the owner.

Sharing

Your data is not sold, and is not shared with third parties except the language-model API used for classification as described above. There is no advertising.

Google API Limited Use

Bade's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Revoking access and deletion

You can revoke Bade's access to your Google account at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions. To request deletion of stored tokens, contact bade.admin@gmail.com.

Contact

bade.admin@gmail.com