# Privacy concerns about logging email accounts on apps

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/privacy-concerns-about-logging-email-accounts-on-apps/17255
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2024-03-08T12:17:51Z
**Posts:** 3

## Post 1 by @Liu66 — 2024-03-08T12:17:51Z

If I log into an email account on an email app, what information does the email provider know about my device?

For example, I log in to the same AOL account at:  
Gmail App on an Android phone,  
Outlook App on a Windows computer,  
Apple Mail App on a Mac,  
Thunderbird App on a Linux computer,  
What does AOL know about my device? And what invasion of privacy does this cause?

Looking forward to reply, thanks for the help.

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## Post 2 by @KeepItSimple — 2024-03-08T12:51:56Z

They will know app and device, timezone, ip. Fairemail allows to disable/spoof sending such data. Not sure if it good/bad really, but I guess they have some analysis of how people access their servers and could use those data somehow maybe? Anyway that is also a question to paranoia level. Use more trustworthy provider? My provider claims to not store those data, mostly IP only and for 24h.

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## Post 3 by @Liu66 — 2024-03-08T13:08:29Z

Thank you very much for your patient reply. I would like to ask if they can obtain the IMEI of my device like an App installed directly on my device, which can uniquely identify a device?

No need to worry about IP because I am connected to VPN 24/7😎