Our commitment to privacy
Streak is built on Gmail. We integrate and expand on its features in ways many applications do not. From the start, we’ve committed to a high bar for privacy and security. We’ve established trust with our users by following industry-best practices and engineering our product with the same degree of data security that Google itself has committed to internally.
Yesterday, Google announced major changes to its policy around the way Gmail data is handled by applications such as our own (their blog post can be read here, and the larger initiative is outlined with their announcement of Project Strobe).
We’re happy to announce our commitment and support of these changes, as we too believe that empowering users to control their data (and trust who they share it with) is crucial to our mission as a company. Not only will these changes hold Streak to an even higher bar of accountability, we believe it to be a much better experience when you can control exactly what data you want to share with Streak.
Our commitment and support doesn’t come at the cost of any features or functionality, and nor should it. We encrypt our data at rest, limit the data scopes we request, and offer a Gmail add-on to limit exposure for users that have tighter organizational controls around data. Streak has never sold or transferred user data and we never will. This security infrastructure is only bolstered by the new policy.
Google has also added 3 new policy requirements requiring apps that access your data to:
- Pass stringent third-party audits
- Meet Google’s own security standards and be reviewed by an inhouse team
- Only ever access the information they need to
These new policies ensure that all of the apps you’re using, such as Streak, meet an incredibly high privacy and security bar while limiting misleading or deceptive apps.
As this policy and more develop, we’re excited for the future of Gmail and Streak. A future where good data privacy is both an expectation and a reality.
