Hermes Personal Automation

What this application does

Hermes is a personal AI assistant owned and run by Ben Wally for his own use. It works through the command line and automatically processes email and calendar events from his own Google account to:

• Show a daily greeting containing the next 7 days of calendar events and the latest text messages he receives on Google Voice.
• Let him search, read, and send email from the terminal using natural language.
• Summarize his inbox and calendar so he can plan his day.

The application only ever touches the account owner's own data. It is not offered to the public, has no other users, and is not a commercial product.

Privacy Policy

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This privacy policy explains what data this application accesses, why it is accessed, how it is used and stored, and what rights you (the account owner) have over that data.

1. What data does this application access, and why?

• Gmail (read, send, modify): to read the owner's incoming Google Voice text messages for the startup greeting, to search and summarize the inbox, and to draft/send email on the owner's request.
• Google Calendar: to display the next 7 days of events in the startup greeting.
• Google Drive, Docs, Sheets (limited): only if the owner asks it to read or create a specific document or spreadsheet.

Access is granted only through the official Google OAuth 2.0 flow, and only for the scopes listed on the consent screen. The application does not request or collect any data beyond the scopes it asks for.

2. How is the data used?

Data is used only to provide the features described above, on the owner's own machine others. It translates your request into the correct API calls and returns the result.

3. Where is the data stored, and for how long?

• OAuth tokens are stored locally on the owner's machine in the profile directory (google_token.json) and are used solely to authenticate API calls.
• Conversation history (including any message/calendar content that appears in a transcript) is stored in the owner's local Hermes session database on the same machine. This repository hosts no user data.
• Retention: data remains in the owner's own storage until the owner deletes it (a session, the token file, or the whole profile). Nothing is automatically exported or transmitted off the owner's machine by this application.

4. Who is the data shared with?

• No third party. The application does not sell, rent, share, or disclose data to any person or company.
• No advertising, analytics, or tracking services are used.
• Data is only ever exchanged with Google itself, through the official API, because that is the account the owner authorized.

5. Security

Tokens are kept in the owner's profile directory with normal file permissions and are scoped to a single Google account. The application does not transmit tokens or data over the network except to Google's official API endpoints over TLS.

6. Your rights

• Access & export: you can see and copy your own data from the owner's machine (session transcripts, token files) at any time.
• Deletion: delete a session with /session delete, or remove the token file to stop all access. Nothing is retained on a server you do not control.
• Revocation: revoke access at any time from your Google Account settings (Security → Third-party access), which immediately stops all API calls.

7. Contact

This is a single-owner application. For any privacy or data question, contact the account owner directly (Ben Wally) — there is no separate privacy team.

Terms of Service

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• This application is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied.
• The owner is not liable for any damages arising from the use or inability to use this application.
• The application is for personal, non-commercial use by the owner only.
• Use of the application complies with Google's Terms of Service and the Google API Services User Data Policy.