MB MAIL

Privacy

Updated 12 November 2026

MB Mail is a Windows email client made by Mike B at MB Tools. This page explains how the app handles information when you connect an email account, including Gmail.

Connecting an account

You choose which accounts to connect. For Gmail browser sign-in, Google asks you to authorise MB Mail to access your mailbox. MB Mail uses your Google account email address and sign-in tokens to identify and connect the account. It accesses your messages, folders, attachments and related details to display and manage mail, and sends messages when you ask it to. The app communicates directly with Google’s sign-in and mail services.

MB Mail also supports other email providers. The app connects to the provider you select using the account and server settings you supply.

Storage on your PC

If you choose to remember a sign-in, MB Mail saves it using Windows encryption for your Windows account. The app can keep encrypted copies of mail for offline use and encrypted recovered drafts, including draft attachments, on your PC. Account and app preferences may also be stored locally. Files and messages you choose to export or save are stored where you select.

Images, links and updates

External images in an email are blocked by default. If you choose to display them, the image provider may receive your IP address and other normal request information. Opening a link takes you to the destination you choose, which has its own privacy practices.

MB Mail checks for and downloads software updates from an update service hosted on Cloudflare. Cloudflare may process your IP address and technical request information in order to provide and protect that service. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

How information is used

MB Mail uses your email information to provide the features you request. MB Mail does not send your Gmail messages to MB Tools’ servers. When you send or forward a message, its contents and any attachments are shared with your chosen recipients through the email provider. MB Tools does not sell Google user data or use it for advertising. MB Mail’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

Your choices and removal

You can disconnect an account, forget a saved sign-in and clear saved mail in MB Mail’s settings. You can also remove MB Mail’s access in your Google Account connections. These actions do not delete messages from your email provider; messages you delete through the mail client are handled by that provider.

Mail and files you export are separate copies on your PC and can be removed using Windows. Your email provider may retain information according to its own policies.

Questions

For questions or a privacy request, use the MB Tools feedback form. Please do not include passwords, sign-in tokens or message contents.