Is Auto Join Meetings Safe? A Look at How It Handles Your Calendar Data
Connecting a Chrome extension to your calendar is a reasonable thing to be cautious about — a calendar full of meeting titles, attendees, and links is sensitive. Here's a straight answer to "is Auto Join Meetings safe," based on exactly what the extension does and doesn't do with your data.
What Permission Auto Join Meetings Actually Needs
To do its one job — detect the meeting link on your upcoming events and open the tab automatically — Auto Join Meetings needs read access to your connected calendar(s): Google Calendar and/or Microsoft Outlook. That's the permission you're granting when you connect an account, and it's scoped to reading calendar events, not sending email, editing files, or anything unrelated to meetings.
How Your Calendar Data Is Used
Calendar data is fetched in real time to detect meeting links on your upcoming events. It is not permanently stored on our servers. In practice, that means the extension checks your calendar to see what's coming up and what platform each meeting is on, uses that to decide when to open a tab, and doesn't keep a standing copy of your event history sitting in a database somewhere.
The full legal detail of what's collected and why is in our Privacy Policy — worth a read if you want the complete picture rather than a summary.
What About Meeting Context?
The Basic Meeting Context feature, which lets you attach a prep link or a local file to a specific meeting, is explicitly local-only: whatever you attach stays on your device rather than being uploaded anywhere. That's a deliberate design choice for a feature that can involve personal files.
What You're Trusting the Extension With — and What You're Not
| Auto Join Meetings does | Auto Join Meetings does not do |
|---|---|
| Read your connected calendar(s) in real time to find meeting links | Permanently store your calendar event history on our servers |
| Open the meeting tab automatically before it starts | Record or transcribe your meetings |
| For Google Meet on Basic, click "Join now" and confirm entry | Post, message, or take any action outside of opening the meeting tab |
| Keep Meeting Context attachments local to your device | Upload Meeting Context files anywhere |
If You Ever Want to Disconnect
Revoking calendar access is always available from your Google or Microsoft account settings, or by disconnecting the account inside the extension. Once disconnected, Auto Join Meetings stops reading that calendar and stops opening tabs for it.
The Short Version
Auto Join Meetings reads your calendar to do one narrow, visible thing — open the right tab at the right time — and is upfront that it fetches data in real time rather than warehousing it. If you want more detail before connecting an account, our Getting Started guide and the Privacy Policy are the two places to look.
See exactly what it does before you connect anything.
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