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The additional permission will enable us to access a customer’s the email address through associated with your Atlassian account. This permission enables the email opt-in option that we will implement with this change. Please be assured that we will not start accessing email addresses before releasing this optionfeature that is scheduled for the same release.
With the opt-in feature, email contact will be a privacy option that you can enable in the app Settings. We will not access your email address, and you You will not receive email communication communications without your deliberate consent.
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