Princetons University

Your campus email, clean and fast. Read your inbox, search every message, and open attachments, all in one place.

What Princetons University Mail does

Read your mail

Princetons University Mail shows the messages in your Google mailbox, organised into Inbox, Unread, Starred, Sent, Drafts, All mail, Spam, and Trash.

Search your mail

Search every message using Gmail search syntax, including from:, subject:, has:attachment, and newer_than:7d.

Open threads and attachments

Open a full conversation, read each message in the thread, and download any files that were attached to it.

Why Princetons University Mail requests access to your Google account

When you sign in, Google asks you to approve the permissions below. Princetons University Mail requests only these, and uses them only to show you your own mail inside this application.

Read your email messages and settings

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly

Princetons University Mail is a mail reader, so it must read the contents of your mailbox in order to display your messages, threads, and attachments to you on screen. This scope is read-only: it grants no ability to send, reply, delete, archive, or label anything.

Your name and email address

openid, userinfo.email, userinfo.profile

Used to identify which account is signed in, to show your name and address in the interface, and to keep your session attached to the correct mailbox. Nothing else is read from your Google profile.

How your data is handled

Read-only

Nothing in your mailbox can be sent, deleted, or altered by this application.

No copies are kept

Messages are requested from Google as you view them and are never written to a database or disk. The only thing stored is an encrypted, http-only session cookie in your own browser.

Never shared or sold

Your Google data is not transferred to third parties, not used for advertising, and never used to train artificial intelligence models. Signing out revokes the token with Google.

Princetons University Mail's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Full detail is in our Privacy Policy.

About Princetons University

Princetons University operates this application for its own members at mail.princetonsuniversity.com. Princetons University is an independent organisation, is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google LLC, and is not affiliated with Princeton University.

Questions about this application, your data, or these policies: princetonuniversityof@gmail.com