Privacy Policy – Home Assistant Mail

Effective November 10, 2026

Home Assistant Mail is a private, single-user integration operated by David Hamilton for personal home automation. It is not offered to, or available for use by, the public.

Information accessed

With the account owner's explicit authorization through Google OAuth, the application reads email in the owner's own Gmail account over IMAP. It does this solely to detect package-delivery notifications from carriers and retailers such as Amazon, UPS, FedEx and USPS.

How information is used

The application extracts only delivery counts and status, plus any delivery images included in those notifications. These are displayed on the owner's self-hosted Home Assistant server. Email content is not sold, shared or transferred to any third party, and is not used for advertising, profiling or training of any kind.

Storage and security

All processing happens on the owner's private home server. OAuth tokens and any derived data are stored only on that server. No data is sent to any service operated by the developer.

Google API Services

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

Revoking access

The account owner can revoke the application's access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Contact

Questions about this policy: CONTACT_EMAIL