Privacy policy
Draft. A lawyer must complete every [bracketed] part before this page is published.
Who we are
Elcara Front Office is a service of Elcara L.L.C-FZ, a company registered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [Registered address, trade licence number and the entity that contracts with US customers: lawyer to confirm.]
Questions about this policy go to [privacy contact email]. General support: [support email].
What this policy covers
This policy covers this website and the Elcara Front Office service: the app, the email connection and the AI replies it drafts and sends for a business.
[Roles: confirm where Elcara is a controller (account owners, website visitors) and where it acts for the business as a processor or service provider (the business's customers and their emails).]
What we collect
Account details: [name, business name, email address, phone number, billing details].
Business profile: [services, service area, booking link, tone of voice and other details the owner gives us].
Connected mailbox: [which messages the service reads, which permissions (scopes) it asks Google and Microsoft for, and what it stores].
Conversations: [new customer emails, the AI drafts, the owner's approvals and edits, and the replies sent].
Website visitors: [confirm before launch. This site sets no cookies and loads no analytics or third-party trackers at the time of writing.]
How we use it
We use this information to run the service: to read new customer emails, draft replies, ask the owner for approval, send approved replies from the business's own address, and show every conversation on one page.
[Other uses: support, security, billing, product improvement. Lawyer to list each one and its legal basis.]
[We do not sell personal information. Lawyer to confirm the wording for each US state law that applies.]
Google and Microsoft account data
[Required before Google OAuth verification: a statement that the use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.]
[Matching statement for Microsoft accounts connected through Microsoft Graph.]
[How the owner disconnects a mailbox, and what happens to the stored data after that.]
AI and your data
[Which AI model providers process email content, whether any of that content is used to train models, and what the providers' terms say about it.]
How long we keep it
[Retention period for each type of data, and what happens when an account closes.]
How we protect it
[Security measures: encryption, access control, who at Elcara can see customer email and when.]
International transfers
[Data moves between the United States, the United Arab Emirates and the countries of our service providers. Lawyer to describe the safeguards.]
Your choices and rights
[Rights under US state privacy laws and the UAE Personal Data Protection Law: access, correction, deletion, opt-out. How to make a request, and how we verify it.]
[How a business's customer can ask about an email that the service handled.]
Children
[Statement that the service is for businesses and is not directed to children.]
Changes to this policy
[How we tell account owners about changes, and when changes take effect.]
Contact
[Privacy contact email]. Postal address: [registered address].