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+# Hermes Brief
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+Hermes Brief is a personal, single-user tool. Once a day it reads its owner's own Gmail and Google Calendar (read-only) and produces a short morning summary on the owner's own computer.
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+- It is not a public service, has no sign-up, and is not distributed to anyone.
+- It is used only by its owner, with the owner's own Google accounts.
+- Details of what data is accessed and how it is handled: [PRIVACY.md](PRIVACY.md).
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+Questions: open an issue in this repository.