# Connect your email (/docs/support/account-and-setup/connect-your-email)

Connecting your email gives Circleback context from your email conversations alongside your meetings. This helps in three ways:

- **Full conversation history**: see recent email conversations alongside previous meetings with the same people. When you're preparing for a call or reviewing a past meeting, you can catch up on the full history in one place.
- **Better meeting notes**: when generating notes for a meeting, Circleback looks at recent email conversations with the meeting's invitees to provide richer context–so your notes reflect the full picture, not just what was said on the call.
- **Search across everything**: when you [ask the Assistant](/docs/support/assistant/ask-circleback-assistant) a question, Circleback searches across both your meetings and emails to find the answer, showing you which sources are relevant.

## How to connect

1. Go to Settings → Connected accounts.
2. Select **Connect** on Gmail or Outlook Mail.

## Privacy

Circleback accesses your emails on-demand–when generating notes for a meeting or when you ask the Assistant a question. Circleback does not store copies of your emails.

You can disconnect your email at any time from Settings → Connected accounts.