Glimpse – Privacy policy

Glimpse tells you when an email you sent was opened. This page says, in plain words, what we keep, why, and how to delete it. Glimpse is a product of Empowner ("Glimpse by Empowner"). "Glimpse", "we" and "us" mean Empowner. Contact: [email protected] or +1 (646) 370-7620 (call or text). Website: glimpsemail.app.

What we keep about you (the sender)

• Your Google account email address and Google's account number for it — so you can sign in. For signing in we ask Google for "openid" and "email" only. We never get your password, your contacts or your calendar.
• For each email you choose to track: the subject line, the recipients' addresses, when you sent it, and which app you sent it from (Chrome extension, Glimpse app or Outlook add-in). We do not keep the text of your emails.
• Your devices: a list of the devices you signed in on (for example "Chrome extension"), when each was added and last used. Each device gets its own random key; we keep only a scrambled (hashed) copy of it.
• Your settings (colors, notifications, quiet hours, addresses you asked us never to count) and a short list of the internet addresses you recently used Glimpse from, so your own opens don't count as the recipient's.

If you connect your Gmail (optional)

Some features need Glimpse to work with your Gmail for you: tracking emails you send from the Gmail phone app (through your signature), keeping your own views of your Sent mail from counting as opens, and the AI assistant connection, which sends or saves as a draft an email you asked your AI assistant to send, so it is tracked. Only if you choose "Connect my Gmail" do we ask Google for these Gmail permissions:

• Read, compose and send email, and change labels (Gmail "modify") — to send, or save as a draft, the email you asked for with its tracking picture; to find that email in your Sent folder and replace the Sent copy with the same email without the picture (so your own views don't count); and to notice when a reply arrives that quotes your tracked email.
• Gmail settings (basic settings and send-as addresses) — to add the tracking picture to your Gmail signature and to know which addresses are yours.

What we read from your Gmail stays limited to that: the headers of the emails you sent (to, cc, subject, time and message id) and the parts needed to find our picture. We do not keep the text of your emails, we do not read your other mail, and we never send an email you didn't ask for. You can take the permission back at any time in your Google account (Security → Your connections to third-party apps & services); deleting your Glimpse account deletes the stored permission too.

Limited Use. Glimpse's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Data from your Gmail is used only to provide the features above that you can see in Glimpse; it is never sold, never used for ads, never used to train AI models, and no person at Glimpse reads it unless you ask us to (for support), it is needed for security, or the law requires it.

What we keep about the people you email (recipients)

When a tracked email is opened, the recipient's mail program loads a tiny invisible picture from our server. At that moment we record: the time, an approximate place (city/region/country from the internet address, when available), the kind of device and mail program, and the network (for example "Google's image proxy" or "Apple Mail"). We do not keep a recipient's full internet address with the open, except where needed to recognise your own opens. We do not follow links, we do not change links, and we do not read replies.

If you track emails, you are responsible for telling recipients where the law requires it (for example in the EU and the UK).

What Glimpse can't know (honest limits)

• It works with a picture. Glimpse only knows an email was opened when the recipient's mail program loads its tiny picture. If pictures are blocked, a real read never shows.
• Gmail: Gmail loads pictures through Google's own image proxy, so for Gmail readers we see that the email was opened, but not their place or device.
• Apple Mail: Apple's Mail Privacy Protection loads every picture by itself when the email arrives, read or not. Glimpse shows these with a separate mark (📬 "arrived at Apple – can't know if read") and never counts them as read.
• Outlook: Outlook often hides pictures until the reader clicks "Download pictures", so an Outlook read may not show. Glimpse shows a note; it doesn't change the count.
• So the results are a good guide, not proof.

Why we keep it

Only to show you, and nobody else, whether and when your emails were opened, and to send you the notifications you turned on. We don't sell data, don't show ads, and don't use it to train AI models. Google user data is used only for sign-in and the Gmail features described above, as the Google API Services User Data Policy (including the Limited Use requirements) requires.

Who else sees it

Nobody, except the companies that run the servers for us (our hosting provider stores the data; Google handles sign-in and Gmail). We never transfer Gmail data to anyone else, including AI companies: when your AI assistant sends through Glimpse, the assistant gives us the email to send — we don't give it your mailbox. Each customer's data is stored apart and only that customer can see it. We would give data to authorities only if the law requires it.

How long we keep it

Until you delete it. There is no automatic deletion today. You can delete single emails, everything older than 90 days, or everything, in Settings — or your whole account (below).

Deleting your account

In the Glimpse dashboard: Settings → Delete my account, or on the web at /delete. Deletion removes your account, every tracked email, every open, your settings, and signs out every device, at once. We keep only a line saying that an account was deleted and when — no email or name.

Children

Glimpse is not for children under 13 (16 in the EU).

Changes

If this policy changes, we will show the new date at the bottom of this page and tell signed-in users in the app.

Contact

Empowner (Glimpse) · glimpsemail.app · [email protected] · +1 (646) 370-7620 — call or text.

Last updated: November 11, 2026 · Glimpse by Empowner · Privacy · Terms · Help · Delete your account