1. Introduction
Welcome to Vela ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our application at vela.nafen.sbs (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
2. The Data We Collect About You
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
- Identity Data includes your first name, last name, and profile picture obtained via Google OAuth.
- Contact Data includes your email address.
- Email Data includes the content of your emails, which we access via the Gmail API to display within the application and process using Mistral AI for summarization and drafting replies at your explicit request.
- Technical Data includes authentication tokens required to securely communicate with the Google APIs.
3. How We Use Your Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- To provide the core functionality of the Vela email client.
- To allow Mistral AI to summarize emails or draft replies. Your email content is securely passed to the Mistral AI API for processing and is not used for training our own models.
- To manage our relationship with you.
4. Third-Party Services
Vela utilizes third-party services to function effectively. We share necessary data with:
- Google: We use Google OAuth for authentication and the Gmail API to access your mailbox. Our use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
- Mistral AI: We use Mistral AI to power the intelligent summarization and drafting features.
- Appwrite: We use Appwrite Cloud as our backend infrastructure to securely store your session data and access tokens.
5. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest where applicable.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us via the support channels provided in the application.