Privacy Policy

blackdogs.work — last updated 4 September 2026

What this application is. A private, single-user automation assistant running on hardware owned and operated by the site owner. It is not a product, not a service offered to the public, and has no users other than the owner. It is published here because Google requires OAuth applications to disclose a privacy policy at a public URL, regardless of how few people use them.

Who this covers

This policy covers the personal automation assistant operated at blackdogs.work and its associated Google Cloud project. The only person whose data it processes is the owner of the Google account that authorises it. There is no sign-up, no account creation, and no mechanism by which a third party could connect their data to it.

What data is accessed

When the owner authorises the application, it may access the following, using Google APIs, and only from the owner's own account:

Gmail — reading, composing and sending mail on the owner's behalf.
Google Calendar — reading and creating events on the owner's own calendars.

No other Google services are requested. Drive, Contacts, Photos, Chat and location history are outside the granted scopes and are not accessible to the application.

How that data is used

Solely to carry out tasks the owner has asked for — drafting and sending the owner's own correspondence, scheduling the owner's own events, and summarising the owner's own inbox and calendar. The data is not analysed for any purpose the owner did not request.

How that data is stored

OAuth tokens are stored on the owner's own machine, in the owner's user profile, and are not transmitted anywhere except to Google.
Message and calendar content is fetched on demand for the task at hand. It is not copied into a database, an index, or a training set.
Operational logs may record that an action occurred and whether it succeeded. They are kept on the owner's own hardware.

What is not done with it

It is not sold, rented, or licensed to anyone.
It is not shared with third parties, advertisers or data brokers.
It is not used to train any machine-learning model.
It is not transferred to any party other than the model provider necessary to perform a task the owner explicitly requested.

Where a task requires a language model, the relevant portion of the request is sent to that provider's API under the provider's own terms, for the sole purpose of completing the requested task.

Google API Services User Data Policy

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

Retention and deletion

The owner can revoke the application's access at any time from Google Account permissions, which immediately invalidates its tokens. Local tokens and logs can be deleted by the owner directly from the machine at any time. Because the application is single-user and self-hosted, there is no separate deletion request process — the owner already has direct control over every copy.

Children

This application is not directed at children and is not accessible to anyone but its owner.

Changes

If the scope of what the application accesses changes, this page will be updated and the date at the top revised.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be directed to the address listed as the developer contact on the application's Google consent screen.