What Pepper sees, and what you get for it

Pepper is only useful because it can see the things it's helping you with. Every connection is optional, off until you turn it on, and revocable from Settings at any time. Each one exists to answer a request you make, not to build a profile to target you with ads.

Each connection below says what Pepper is allowed to do with it, then what that gets you. The examples follow one ordinary week; your calendar is where Pepper starts.

Signing in with Google

Your name and email address, to create your account and know who you are when you come back. Nothing else is read unless you connect a service below.

Google Calendar

Pepper can see the events on the calendars you include, and create, move, update and cancel the events you ask it to, confirming the details before it changes anything.

You see your work, personal and shared family calendars in one place, with the drive between events, so you know at a glance whether you're free for the 5:30 game. When you need some flexibility, ask Pepper to change the date or time of an event and it makes the change once you confirm.

Gmail

Pepper can search and read your mail and draft replies. With your approval it sends them from your address, and never on its own from a scheduled task, which drafts and waits for you.

If the kids' dental appointment never made it to your calendar, Pepper finds the confirmation email and offers to add it: one tap and it's there. And if you're running late, ask Pepper to move the meeting and it drafts a note to everyone, sent from your address once you've read it.

Google Contacts

Read-only: your saved contacts and, on a work account, your company directory. Pepper uses them for one thing, turning a name you mention into an email address.

You can invite people by name. Say "invite Priya to Friday's planning lunch" and Pepper finds the right Priya without you looking up an address. If it can't tell which Priya you mean, it asks instead of guessing.

Google Drive

Read-only: Pepper can find files and folders, read what's inside, and read their comments. It can't edit, move, delete or share anything in your Drive.

The season's game schedule the coach shared as a Google Sheet can end up on your family calendar without retyping a date: ask, check the games, confirm. And before a meeting, you can find out what's in the doc for it, comments included, without hunting for it.

Other services

Optional, and only if you want them. You can connect other services Pepper works with, such as GitHub or a tool server you already use elsewhere. Each asks for its own permission when you connect it.

Connect the ones that fit how you work, and leave the rest. How Pepper works covers what each one adds.

Pepper's use of information received from Google Workspace APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. The Privacy Policy sets out what is stored, how long it is kept, and how to have it deleted.