Is it safe to enter Gmail password on Tankaar Messenger?

Hello friends,

You have asked me several times whether its completely safe to enter Gmail Id on Tankaar Messenger. Though its well mentioned in our privacy policy that we donot store your messenger service username and password on our server but still some of you have doubts. You sometimes doubt how we retrieve your friend list when you use our messenger etc. I understand this technology is little out of box as compared to gaming sites which use single account, that you create on their sites. But its completely safe. We are not messing up with the protocols of messenger service and neither are we storing any data in plain or encrypted form. What tankaar messenger does is it sends a game event just as you send text to the person. This event (which is in form of a text message) goes via the server of messenger service you are using (generally gmail in your case). If you are still not clear what we do, I have tried to explain this in a diagramatic form. Its a simple thing. Tankaar Messenger is just a messenger client just like GTalk, Pidgin, Yahoo Messenger etc.

Now consider this above diagram. All type of clients communicate information to the XMPP server (GMail in this case) (XMPP stands for Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) which in turn communicates back to messenger clients. So if you are using your gmail account XMPP server is that of Gmail. XMPP protocol is an open protocol used for messaging. As per standards of this protocol messages are encrypted. So it does not matter which messenger client you use, all will be able to render your friend list and all will allow you to communicate with your friends. So no question of breaching privacy. Feel free to use your messenger service username and password, its completely safe and enjoy Tankaar.