Gmail Sales Extension

LindenDavies
Participant

Permission to see tracked / logged emails

Hello,

 

We use the gmail integration to log/track mails in our teams. However, it became apparent that users have been able to see confidential email threads that are not related to their work/team/department. I believe this is because any logges contact (including a staff) will currnelty show all tracked emails if you vierw that contact's record.

 

How can we give/disable permission or set the system up to acoid this, and only allow the relevant users to see the relevant logged/tracked emails?

 

Linden.

3 Replies 3
MelindaNelson
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

Permission to see tracked / logged emails

Hi @gaastra60 , 

 

Thanks for following up! It's not possible to view the contact that is owned by another rep without having the ability to edit the property with these settings. Enterprise subscriptions have the ability to restrict edit access for properties, so if you have an Enterprise subscription, you could allow edit access for all contacts but then restrict specific properties. That being said, you still wouldn't be able to say "only edit this property if the user is assigned as the owner".

 

Thanks,

Melinda | (She/Her)

Customer Support Specialist

gaastra60
Member

Permission to see tracked / logged emails

Hi,

 

Thanks for this, I see the possibilities here - but for us, when we change the setting to "view - owned only", then the contacts that are NOT owned by a user, appear to be even non existent? Is there somehow another option?

 

For example, we want sales rep germany to see that a contact in switzerland exists, and that just someone else is the owner and they dont have permission to dig into detail. When we switch to view owned only, you can start to search for the contact - for example, a swiss customer, and no record at all comes up - which would incorrectly lead the german sales rep to think that this is a completely new to the company contact....

 

Any thoughts?

MelindaNelson
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

Permission to see tracked / logged emails

Hi @LindenDavies

 

Thank you for posting in the Community! 

 

It sounds like your goal is to log and track all emails but only allow certain users to view logged emails. 

 

The intention of logging emails is to increase transparency and allow teams to see all communication with contacts. 

  • If a user has access to view a contact, they will also have access to view any logged emails on that contact record. When a user has permission to view a contact, they are able to view all logged activity for that contact.
  • It is not possible to make an individual email "private" (or only accessible to some users). You can only edit user permissions for the contact (also mentioned in this post).

Preventing users from seeing one-to-one emails

If you would like to prevent users from seeing one-to-one emails, here are the options:

  1. Don't log the email. The sender of the email can still track the email, but they can deselect "Log" when sending that email. 
  2. Add confidential contacts to the Never Log List. Emails sent to an email address on the Never Log List will never be logged. Many HubSpot users exclude internal emails from being logged (e.g., I added *@hubspot.com to my Never Log List, so internal emails to my colleagues are never logged).
  3. Edit user permissions. You can give users view/edit access to only the contacts you want them to see (e.g., only allow them to see contacts they own). If your subscription gives you access to create teams, you can add users to teams and edit permissions so they can only see contacts owned by anyone on their team.

 

I hope this clarification helps! Let me know if you have additional questions. 

 

Thanks,

Melinda | (She/Her)

Customer Support Specialist