Metadata Studio stores all data & metadata in the user's Drive. All data stays in the user's Google Account.

As Metadata Studio process & stores all data & metadata in the user's Google account and It never goes to our systems. We can say it is 100% safe & secure.

To operate Metadata Studio for Drive, the Add-on needs the below-listed permissions from the Google user.

Google Drive

• View and manage metadata of files in your Google Drive

This scope is required to add custom metadata set by the user to the selected Drive item.

• See and download all your Google Drive files

This scope is required to read field information file content if the field is shared by another user.

• View and manage Google Drive files and folders that you have opened or created with this app

This scope is required to create metadata field information files & folders in the user's Drive. In which the add-on stores the field information content like field title, field type & field related data.

Google Contacts

• See and download your contacts

This scope is required to display the list of users from the contacts list so that the user can choose a Person from the list as a value for User type Field, for example, "Assign To" Field.

• See and download contact info automatically saved in your "Other contacts"

This scope is required to display the list of other contacts users merged with the user's list mentioned in the above scope.

Basic account info

• View your email address

This scope is required to get the user's email address that is needed to identify the current user.

• Associate you with your personal info on Google

This scope is required to get and associate the user with personal info like the user's email address.

Additional access

• View basic data about the Google Drive folders or files you select

This scope is required to get basic details like the file name of the selected file & is the least scope required for Drive Add-on to run inside the Drive interface.

• Send email as you

This scope is required to send an email notification to the owner of the file if any shared user modifies the file metadata. We have added an email notification option, if the user chooses this option, the owner would get an email once the metadata on the file is modified.

• View your country, language, and timezone

This scope is required to get the user's timezone in which the date would be displayed.

• View and manage data associated with the application

This scope is required to store the application & user preferences data in the application storage.