Besides sending the messages you approve and reading replies to them, Ted uses Gmail for three things:
- Keeping your tracker current. Ted reads the confirmations, recruiter replies, interview invitations, rejections and offers your applications generate and moves each application to the right stage, so you do not file every message by hand.
- Verification codes. Some employers email a code in the middle of an application. Ted reads that code when the application asks for it, so it can be entered for you. Codes are read when needed and never stored.
- Reply drafts. When a recruiter writes to you, Ted drafts a reply and saves it to your own Gmail Drafts folder, where you read, edit and send it yourself. Ted never sends these drafts.
Ted only looks for messages related to your job search. Gmail filters by sender and wording before anything reaches us, and anything that turns out not to be about an application is dropped without being kept. The text of job related messages is sent to our language model provider to classify the message or draft a reply, and is not kept by us afterward. We never use your mail for advertising and never use it to train AI models.
You can disconnect Gmail at any time in Settings, under Integrations. Disconnecting deletes our connection to your Google account on the spot, so Ted’s access ends immediately; your tracker stays until you delete your account.