Privacy

Last changed 9 November 2026.

Contacts for Claude lets an AI assistant you connect (such as Claude) read and change your own Google Contacts, with your approval for every change. This page says what the app reads, what it keeps, and what it never does.

What the app reads

• Your Google account: when you sign in, your Google account's id, email address and name, to know who you are.
• Your contacts (…/auth/contacts): once you connect Google Contacts, the app reads your contacts and labels from Google when you or your assistant use it, and makes the changes you approve: new contacts, edits, merges, deletions and labels.
• Other contacts (…/auth/contacts.other.readonly, read only): the people Google keeps from your email, so your assistant can find someone you haven't saved and, when you say so, copy them into your contacts.

What the app keeps

• Your login: email, name, Google account id, and when you signed up.
• Your Google access: a refresh token Google gives when you connect, encrypted (AES-256-GCM) with a key kept apart from the database.
• The changes it made for you: each contact (or label) before and after the change, for 30 days, so you can undo it. Then they are deleted.
• Which assistants you connected, and when they last used the app, until you disconnect them.

Your contacts themselves are not stored: while you use the app it holds them in memory, and forgets them after 30 minutes without use. Server logs say which tool was used and when, never your contacts' contents.

What the app never does

• It changes nothing in your contacts without your approval of that change.
• It doesn't sell, share or transfer your Google data to anyone, use it for advertising, or use it to train AI models. Your assistant gets what it asks for on your behalf, through the connector you added.
• No person reads your data, unless you ask for help with a problem and agree to it, or the law requires it.

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

Your choices

• Disconnect Google Contacts on your account page (this revokes the app's access at Google), or remove the app at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
• Disconnect any assistant on your account page.
• Download what the app keeps about you, or delete your account and all of it, on your account page. Your contacts stay in Google.

How data moves

Data is sent only between your browser or assistant, the app and Google, always encrypted (HTTPS).