Airmint privacy policy

Airmint is a Gmail app for the Mac, made by Rutron B.V. in the Netherlands ("we"). Airmint runs on your Mac and connects straight to Google. We run no server for it, so your mail, calendar and contacts never reach us.

This policy says what Airmint reads from your Google account, what it does with it, where it keeps it and how you delete it.

What Airmint reads from your Google account

You sign in on Google's own page in your browser. Airmint never sees your Google password. Google then shows you the permissions Airmint asks for. Airmint asks for the first one when you connect an account. It asks for the others only when you turn on the feature that needs them, and Airmint works without them.

Permission	Asked when	Used to
Read, write and send email, and change labels `gmail.modify`	you connect an account	show your mail, labels and attachments, save drafts, send messages, and archive, star, label, mark as read, mark as spam or trash conversations. Airmint cannot permanently delete mail.
Change basic Gmail settings `gmail.settings.basic`	you choose to manage filters or a vacation response	show and edit your Gmail filters and vacation response.
See and edit calendar events `calendar.events`	you choose to answer invitations through Google Calendar	record your answer to an invitation and add the event to your calendar.
See your calendars `calendar.readonly`	you turn on the Google Calendar agenda	show your day's events next to an invitation and in the Calendar window. Airmint only reads them.
See your contacts `contacts.readonly` `contacts.other.readonly`	you turn on Google Contacts suggestions	suggest people while you type a recipient. Airmint reads contacts and never changes or saves them.

Airmint also reads your Google account's email address and name, to show which account is connected.

How Airmint uses this data

Airmint uses your Google data for one purpose, which is to show and manage your mail in the app on your Mac. It does nothing else with it.

We don't receive your Google data, so no person at Rutron can read it.
We don't sell it, share it or give it to anyone.
We don't use it for advertising.
We don't use it to build or train AI models.

Airmint's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Where the data is kept

Everything stays on your Mac.

Airmint saves the mail it has loaded, your drafts and their attachments, and your Airmint settings, signatures and templates in its own folder, ~/Library/Containers/com.rutron.airmint. macOS keeps other apps out of that folder. Airmint adds no encryption of its own, so the data is as protected as the rest of your Mac. Turning on FileVault encrypts it with your disk.
Airmint keeps the token that lets it stay signed in to Google in the macOS Keychain.
Google contacts are read when you type a recipient and are not saved.

What leaves your Mac

Airmint sends requests to Google's servers to read and change your mail, calendar and contacts. These connections are encrypted.
Images that a message loads from the internet stay blocked until you choose Load Images, for one message or always for a sender. When they load, your Mac fetches them from the sender's server, which then sees your IP address and that you opened the message. Images Airmint recognises as trackers stay blocked.
A link you click opens in your web browser.

Airmint contains no analytics, advertising or tracking code, and it sends nothing to us.

Calendar and Contacts on your Mac

If you allow it in macOS, Airmint reads the calendars on your Mac to show your day next to an invitation, and reads names and email addresses from Contacts to suggest recipients. It only reads them. It doesn't change them, save them or send them anywhere.

What Apple shares with us

If you buy Airmint, Apple handles the payment. We don't receive your name, address or payment details.

If you agreed in macOS to share analytics with app developers, Apple gives us crash reports and usage statistics that don't identify you. If you test Airmint through TestFlight, Apple shares your crash reports, the feedback you choose to send and the email address you were invited with.

Keeping and deleting your data

The data stays on your Mac until you remove it. Removing it from your Mac does not delete anything from your Gmail account.

To sign Airmint out, open Settings, choose Accounts and click Disconnect Gmail. This removes the sign-in token from the Keychain. The mail already saved on your Mac stays, so you can reconnect later.
To delete the mail, drafts and settings saved on your Mac, quit Airmint. In Finder, choose Go, then Go to Folder, enter ~/Library/Containers, and move the folder com.rutron.airmint to the Trash.
To withdraw Airmint's access at Google, open your Google Account's third-party connections, choose Airmint and remove its access.

This website

This website sets no cookies, has no analytics and loads nothing from other companies. It is hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH. The server may log requests, with the IP address, time and page, to keep the site running and secure.

When you write to us

If you email us for support, we receive your email address and whatever you write. We use it to answer you, and keep it only as long as we need to handle your request or meet legal obligations. Please don't send passwords.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can ask us for access to the personal data we hold about you, or to correct or delete it, and you can object to how we use it. Because Airmint keeps your data on your Mac, the only personal data we hold is what you send us by email and what Apple shares with us. You can also complain to your data-protection authority. In the Netherlands that is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.

Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, we update this page and the date below. If Airmint ever starts using Google data in a new way, we will update this policy first, and Airmint will ask for your consent before it does.

Contact

Rutron B.V., the Netherlands. Email info@rutron.nl.

Last updated on 15 November 2026.