For clinicians and their IT teams
Using Confirm with a work or school calendar
Confirm can read session times from Google Calendar so clinicians do not have to type them in. Many employers and schools block outside apps from their Google calendars by default. This page explains what Confirm reads, how an IT administrator can allow it, and what a clinician can do in the meantime.
If you are a clinician and Google blocked the connection
- It is your organization's settingGoogle showed a message like "Access blocked" or "your admin needs to review this app" because your employer or school limits which apps can read work calendars. Nothing is wrong with your Confirm account.
- You can keep using Confirm todayConnect a personal Google calendar if your sessions are on it, take a photo of your planner or schedule, or log sessions by hand. Hours count the same way however they are entered.
- Ask IT to allow itSend your IT help desk or Google Workspace administrator a link to this page. The section below has everything they need.
For IT administrators: what Confirm is
Confirm is a web app that clinicians use to track their own supervised hours toward licensure and their continuing education. It is the clinician's personal licensure record. It is not an EHR and it has no field for a client's name, notes or diagnosis.
What Confirm reads from a calendar
- Read-only access to calendar eventsOne Google permission:
calendar.events.readonly. Confirm cannot create, change or delete anything in a calendar. - Only the date and time of matching events are keptThe clinician picks keywords, such as "individual" or "supervision". An event's title is checked against those keywords and then discarded. Confirm stores the date, the start and end time, the keyword that matched and Google's event ID.
- Never read or storedAttendees, locations, descriptions, video links and attachments. Events that match no keyword are not brought in at all.
- Verified by GoogleConfirm passed Google's OAuth verification for this permission.
- The clinician stays in controlThey can disconnect at any time, which deletes the stored Google credentials and any events still waiting for review.
Details: Privacy Policy.
How to allow Confirm in Google Workspace
- 1. Open the Google Admin consoleGo to Security, then Access and data control, then API controls, and open the list of third-party apps (Google labels it "Manage third-party app access" or "App access control").
- 2. Add ConfirmChoose to add or configure a new app, then search by the OAuth client ID below.
- 3. Choose who it applies toThe whole organization, or only the organizational units or groups your clinicians are in.
- 4. Set access to TrustedOr, if you limit by permission, allow the Calendar permission listed below. Save.
Google's own instructions: Control which third-party and internal apps access Google Workspace data. Menu names in the Admin console change from time to time; Google's article has the current ones.
The details IT will ask for
| App name | Confirm |
|---|---|
| Website | confirmmyhours.com (the app runs at app.confirmmyhours.com) |
| OAuth client ID | 391680546784-5bfaek8b3cc2dmrq2le17fv4fvmru443.apps.googleusercontent.com |
| Calendar permission | https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events.readonly |
| Sign in with Google (optional) | Basic profile only: openid, email, profile. Clinicians can sign in with an email and password instead. |
| Data written to your systems | None. Confirm never writes to a calendar and does not connect to an EHR or scheduling system. |
| Contact | confirmmyhours@gmail.com |
Workplaces on Microsoft 365 or Outlook: Confirm connects to Google Calendar only. Clinicians there log with a planner photo or by hand.
Bringing Confirm to a whole site or program
When a practice, agency or graduate program adopts Confirm for its clinicians or students, allowing the app in Google Workspace is one of the first setup steps, and we walk your administrator through it. See Confirm for Sites and Schools, or tell us about your organization.