Pictures and logos beside your mail

A list of messages reads faster when you can see who each is from. On a computer, mail now shows a picture beside it:

• A Clova user's own photo, when they've chosen to show it to other Clova users, beside mail from their permanent addresses.
• A brand's logo, for a company that publishes one with a certificate proving it's theirs.
• The sender's Gravatar, the picture many people have set up for their address, when there's no logo.

Anyone else gets their initials.

Pictures and logos beside your mail

Only for mail that's really from them

A picture is shown only beside mail that passed its sender's own checks, so a forger can't borrow a bank's logo or a friend's face.

Without telling anyone you read it

Pictures and logos are looked up by Clova's server, never by your browser, so nobody learns when you open your mail. Gravatar is asked with a scrambled form of the sender's address, never the address itself.

What the privacy policy says about Gravatar