Connect your Gmail to Agee

Connecting a Gmail or Google Workspace mailbox lets Agee act as a full email client inside your case files — reading, sending, and organizing email, capturing billable time, and keeping each matter’s email in one place. This page explains, in plain English, what Agee accesses, how that data is used and protected, and what disconnecting or deleting does.

For authenticated users of the Agee legal platform · Last updated June 28, 2026

What connecting does

A connected Gmail mailbox turns Agee into an email client for that account, tied to your matters:

A full email experience in Agee. Read your mail and compose, reply, reply-all, forward, and organize it (mark read/unread, move or file, move to Trash or Spam) from within Agee.
Email on the right case. Messages are associated with the correct matter so your firm can review a matter’s full email record and search it in one place.
Billable time, captured. Agee can capture billable activity from email so it can be recorded against the correct matter.

This is your firm’s connected mailbox, used for your firm’s own work on its own matters.

How to connect

In Agee, open Settings → Connected accounts and choose Connect Gmail.
You are redirected to Google’s own secure sign-in page. You sign in directly with your firm’s Google account and approve access on Google’s consent screen. Agee never sees, receives, or stores your Google password.
Google issues Agee a secure, revocable access token. You can disconnect at any time in Agee, and you can review or revoke Agee’s access directly from your Google Account at myaccount.google.com → Security → Third-party access.

What Agee accesses (the permissions you grant)

On Google’s consent screen you grant Agee these permissions. Because Agee is a full email client — not a read-only viewer — these include Google’s “restricted” Gmail scopes:

Permission	Why Agee asks for it
Your Google identity (email address, basic profile)	Identify which Google account is connected.
Read, organize, and send your Gmail (`gmail.modify` + `gmail.send`)	Sync and read your messages into Agee; send and reply from your mailbox; and organize messages (mark read/unread, move or file, move to Trash or Spam) when you ask.

Agee requests only the access needed to run these features. The Gmail integration does not request access to your Google passwords, payment instruments, Drive files, or contacts.

What Agee stores, and where

When connected, Agee syncs your messages from your Gmail mailbox into your firm’s Agee workspace, along with records Agee derives from them (for example, extracted billing time entries, case-match and follow-up suggestions, and AI-generated draft text).

What gets synced. Full message content (both plain-text and HTML), message headers and metadata, and attachments (downloaded on demand). On initial setup Agee imports recent messages from across your mailbox folders — including Sent, Spam, and Trash — then keeps up to date as new mail arrives.
Where it lives. Agee’s infrastructure runs on Amazon Web Services in the United States.
Encryption. Email content and attachments are encrypted at rest at the storage layer and in transit (TLS), and are isolated by row-level security. The OAuth tokens that authorize the connection additionally receive per-connection AWS KMS envelope encryption.
Firm isolation. Your firm’s data is isolated by database row-level security tied to your firm’s tenant. Only your firm can reach it.

How Agee uses your email — and what it never does

Agee accesses your connected Gmail data solely to provide and improve a small set of user-facing features for your firm’s own work on its own matters:

Work your email inside each case. Read, send, reply, and organize messages, and link and search a matter’s email so your firm can review its full email record in one place.
Capture billable activity from email so it can be recorded against the correct matter.
Assist your drafting — for example, suggesting a reply that you review and send from your own mailbox.

Just as important, here is what Agee does not do with your email:

Your email is never used to train AI models. When a feature uses AI, your message content is processed by large language models (through AWS Bedrock / Anthropic Claude) only to produce that one result, for your firm, per request. It is not used to train, fine-tune, or improve any generalized or cross-customer AI model.
No sale, no transfer. Agee never sells, rents, or transfers your email — content or metadata — to any third party for that party’s own purposes. The data belongs to your firm; Agee processes it on your firm’s behalf.
No advertising. Agee runs no advertising and does not use your email to target or measure ads.
Limited human access. Agee personnel do not read your email in the ordinary course of running the service. People access mailbox content only with your firm’s consent, as necessary for security, abuse-prevention, or support, to comply with law, or in aggregated or anonymized form for internal operations.

To deliver these features Agee relies on a limited set of service providers, including Amazon Web Services (hosting, in the United States) and AWS Bedrock / Anthropic (the AI models behind AI-assisted features); see our Privacy Policy for details. Agee’s use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

If you connect your own AI assistant

Separately from this email connection, your firm can connect an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT to Agee through the AI-assistant connector. If you do, and you ask that assistant to work with your Gmail email, the data responsive to your request is sent to that AI provider under your own account and that provider’s terms. By connecting it you consent to share that data with the provider, and Agee does not control how that provider uses, stores, or retains it. The “never used to train AI models” commitment above covers Agee’s own processing; a third-party assistant you connect is governed by your agreement with that provider.

Security

No password sharing. The connection uses Google’s OAuth sign-in; Agee never receives your Google password.
Encryption. Your email and attachments are encrypted at rest at the storage layer and in transit (TLS), and are isolated by row-level security. The OAuth tokens that authorize the connection additionally receive per-connection AWS KMS envelope encryption (access and refresh tokens encrypted separately), stored apart from your mail.
Firm-level isolation. Database row-level security keeps your firm’s data reachable only by your firm.
See our Security page for Agee’s full security posture.

Your responsibilities before you connect

Connect a firm email account, not a personal one. Agee is for your firm’s business email. Connect a firm or organization mailbox — not a personal Gmail or personal Microsoft account.
Connect only a mailbox you are authorized to use. Firm administrators should connect shared or firm mailboxes only where they have authority to do so.
You control what comes in. Connecting a mailbox brings its email — which may include privileged, confidential, or otherwise sensitive client information — into your firm’s Agee workspace. You and your firm are responsible for ensuring that doing so is permitted for your matters and consistent with your professional, ethical, and client-confidentiality obligations.
Your firm decides. Whether to enable email connections, and which mailboxes to connect, is your firm’s decision.

How long Agee keeps your email

Agee retains the email it has synced for the lifetime of the mailbox connection, so your firm can keep using the features above, and deletes it on request. Agee does not run a fixed-period auto-expiry on this data.

Disconnecting and deleting

Disconnecting is not deleting. Disconnecting in Agee stops future syncing and erases the access Agee has stored for that mailbox. To fully revoke the access you granted, also remove Agee from your connected apps at Google. Disconnecting does not, by itself, delete email already synced into Agee.
Your real mailbox stays intact. Disconnecting — and any later deletion of your synced data in Agee — affects only Agee’s stored copy. It does not delete, trash, or modify any message in your actual Gmail mailbox. (Separately, when you use Agee’s email tools to send a message, or to file or move one, that action acts on your real mailbox, the same as any email client.)
Deleting your synced data. To request deletion of the data Agee synced from your mailbox, contact support@agee.law, as described in our Privacy Policy. Some information may be retained where necessary for legal, compliance, security, or backup purposes — for example, billing time entries you have already recorded are kept as your firm’s business records, with the originating email content removed.
Backups. Deleted data is removed from Agee’s live systems promptly. Copies may persist in encrypted, access-controlled disaster-recovery backups until those backups expire on their normal schedule (currently up to roughly 35 days for point-in-time database recovery, plus the retention window of immutable backup snapshots), after which they are no longer recoverable. Agee does not restore deleted data from backups into its live systems.