Privacy,
in plain terms.

01 / Purpose and access

contacts-me is a personal contact inventory and backup utility operated for accounts controlled by its operator. It supports Google Contacts and Proton Contacts.

Google access is granted through Google’s authorization flow with read-only Contacts permission and basic account-identity permission. Proton access uses a separate authorized contacts session. The application checks the intended account’s identity before exporting contact records.

02 / Data used

When an account is authorized, the application reads its stored contact records. These may include names, email addresses, telephone numbers, postal addresses, organizations, birthdays, notes, links, custom fields and other fields returned with the record.

• Google exports also include contact-group definitions, group membership and available contact-photo data.
• Proton exports contain the contact information returned in its contact cards.
• Account information includes the authorized account’s email address and identity-verification information used to confirm the intended account.
• Provider identifiers and metadata are retained to check completeness and prepare recovery records.

Authorization credentials are stored privately to allow subsequent authorized reads without requiring a new sign-in each time. The utility does not request access to Google mailbox or calendar contents. Its Google inventory covers stored contacts and groups; suggested Other contacts and Workspace directory records are outside the current inventory.

03 / Use and storage

Contact data is used to inventory contacts, check export completeness, create backups and prepare private recovery files. The application does not sell contact data, use it for advertising, or use it to train AI models.

The application communicates with the relevant contact provider and processes returned records on the operator’s private infrastructure. Saved contact snapshots are encrypted before storage, with encrypted copies kept for local recovery. The private recovery key is kept on the operator’s local computer.

If the operator explicitly restores a backup, recovery files containing contact data are written to a private local directory.

04 / Current limits

Current contact access is read-only. The application does not create, update or delete provider contacts, and live synchronization is not active. Any future write capability would require separate review and appropriate authorization.

Contact-photo backups retain the representation supplied by the provider. They do not promise the original uploaded image resolution. Checking an offline recovery bundle does not by itself establish that an import into a provider account has succeeded.

05 / Access control and deletion

The operator can revoke the application’s Google access through Google Account permissions and revoke the separate Proton session through Proton’s account session controls. Revocation prevents subsequent authorized reads once the provider rejects the credentials. It does not automatically remove backups already stored by the operator.

The operator controls retention and deletion of stored snapshots and recovery files. The application currently has no automatic backup-deletion schedule. Questions about access, stored data or deletion can be sent to the contact address below.

06 / This informational website

This public website describes contacts-me. It has no contact-upload form, account sign-in or access to contact records. It uses no analytics, tracking cookies or externally loaded fonts or scripts.

Hosting processes connection and request information needed to serve these pages and may retain limited operational or error information to diagnose problems. This information is separate from the utility’s contact inventories and backups.