Connecting Google

Connecting Google is the moment Dustav becomes yours. It's one sign-in — Google's own consent screen — covering Gmail, and optionally Google Calendar if you want your schedule handled too. You can untick the calendar half and connect mail only; you can add it later without starting over.

What you're granting, in plain words

For Gmail, the consent covers exactly what the product does:

• Read your mail and its attachments — that's the reading.
• File messages into your labels and archive them — that's the tidying, using your own folders.
• Send a reply — but only ever the one you've reviewed and hit send on. Dustav drafts; you commit.
• Your display name — so a reply goes out as you, not as a robot.

For Google Calendar (optional), Dustav lists your calendars so you can pick which ones to show, keeps a live copy of the events on the ones you tick, and writes an event only on your own explicit tap — never on its own. See the calendar.

Google's consent screen shows each permission as its own checkbox, all unticked — that's Google's design, not a warning about us. Dustav needs the mail boxes ticked to work; if you skip one it needs, it will tell you honestly rather than half-connect.

The first read

Once connected, you choose how far back to read and whether to skip Gmail's Promotions/Social tabs, then hit Sync. Dustav reads the backlog — noise passed over for pennies, real mail decoded into operator cards — and from then on it reads new mail as it arrives. You'll watch the inbox fill in live.

Disconnecting

You can disconnect any time from the app. Disconnecting revokes Dustav's access and stops all reading — and deliberately keeps what it already read and built, so reconnecting later picks up where you left off instead of starting from nothing. If you want the data gone too, that's what deleting your account is for: a real, full purge. The distinction is spelled out in privacy & data custody.