Privacy policy

In short: Brev has no server and collects nothing about you. Your mail goes between your Mac and Google.

Your mail

Brev reads, sends, labels, archives and moves your mail to the Trash through Google's Gmail API, directly from your Mac. It asks Google for one permission, gmail.modify, which can't delete mail permanently. There is no Brev server in between and no Brev account.

Brev's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Your mail is used only to show it to you and to do what you ask, and it is never sold, shared for advertising or used to train AI models.

What is kept on your Mac

Your Google sign-in, and a Claude API key if you add one, are kept in one item in the Mac's Keychain.

To open quickly, Brev keeps your last inbox list, summaries of recent conversations, the people you write to (for suggestions in To and Cc) and the times you snoozed mails on your Mac. Signing out removes them, except the snooze times, which only hold a mail's sender, subject and when it comes back.

Pictures, logos and trackers

Tracking pixels are removed from every mail before it is shown, so they never load. Other pictures in mail load from the sender's servers without telling them where they are shown; under Settings → Images → Ask first they wait until you press Show images.

Company senders get their site's icon as an avatar, asked from Google's icon service with the sender's domain. Ask first turns these off as well.

Searching with Claude

When you ask a question in ⌘K, Brev sends your question and the text of the mails Claude needs to read to Anthropic, either through Claude Code signed in with your own Claude account or with your own API key, under Anthropic's terms for that account. Nothing is sent to Anthropic unless you ask, and without Claude Code or a key nothing is sent at all.

No tracking

Brev has no analytics, no crash reporting and no ads. This website sets no cookies and has no tracking; it is served by Cloudflare.

Removing Brev's access

Sign out in Brev's settings, and Brev asks Google to forget its access. You can also remove Brev at myaccount.google.com/connections.

Contact

Questions about privacy go to brev@theill.com.