Calendars
Forward Email Calendar privacy rating
CalDAV calendar, task and CardDAV contacts service included with paid Forward Email plans. It works with any CalDAV or CardDAV app and with Forward Email's own webmail, desktop and mobile apps, and stores data in each alias's encrypted SQLite mailbox.
Summary
Forward Email Calendar scores 85 out of 100 (grade B) on the calendars criteria. It meets 3 of 4 criteria: open source, no ads or data sales and independent audit. It partly meets no trackers or telemetry. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act.
Score 85 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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Yes
Open source Weight 3 of 3 Source-available
Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
All code is public, including the CalDAV and CardDAV servers that run the service. The CalDAV and CardDAV code is under the source-available Business Source License 1.1, which becomes MPL-2.0 four years after each release.
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Partial
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
No third-party analytics. First-party anonymized analytics of page views and service usage is on by default, and Cloudflare Turnstile loads on sign-in and sign-up forms.
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Funded by paid plans. No ads, and the privacy policy states user data is not shared with third parties.
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Yes
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
Two independent Cure53 audits are published. The latest covers the full forwardemail.net code repository, which contains the CalDAV and CardDAV servers.