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Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to Link & Impulse (“Link & Impulse”, “we”, “us”), operating at linkandimpulse.com. It describes how our application and services access, use, store, share, protect, retain, and delete information — including Google user data accessed via the Google Ads API.
What we collect
When you submit our contact form, we collect the information you choose to share: your name, email address, company name, annual revenue range, the data sources you use, and any details you include in your message. We collect this only so we can respond to your enquiry and scope the audit.
What Google user data our application accesses
When you authorise Link & Impulse to connect to your Google Ads account via Google OAuth, our application requests the following OAuth scope:
- https://www.googleapis.com/auth/adwords — read and manage your Google Ads campaigns and reports you explicitly authorise.
Using that scope, our application accesses the following Google user data:
- Google account identifiers used for authentication and authorisation (such as your name, email address, and OAuth tokens);
- Google Ads account data you authorise, including customer IDs, account hierarchy, billing setup metadata, and user access settings;
- Campaign structure and configuration, including campaigns, ad groups, ads, keywords, audiences, budgets, bidding strategies, and settings;
- Performance and reporting data, including impressions, clicks, cost, conversions, conversion actions, and related metrics and segments.
We access only the Google Ads accounts, scopes, and date ranges you explicitly authorise. We do not access your Gmail, Google Drive, or any other Google services beyond the Google Ads API scopes you approve during OAuth consent.
How we use it
We use the information you submit to reply to you, arrange a call if needed, and prepare a scope and fixed price for the Data Audit. We do not sell, rent, or trade your information with any third party.
How our application uses Google user data
We use Google user data solely to provide and improve the user-facing features you requested from Link & Impulse, specifically:
- Connecting to your Google Ads accounts to audit your marketing data setup;
- Extracting campaign structure and performance data to build pipelines, dimensional models, and dashboards in your dedicated data warehouse;
- Maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving those pipelines and reports for the duration of your engagement;
- Communicating with you about the connection status, errors, and authorisation renewals.
We will not sell your data to third parties, and we use Google user data only to provide you with the services you requested, such as the Data Audit, the Build, and ongoing pipeline maintenance. We do not use Google user data to serve, personalise, retarget, or measure advertising to you or any other end user.
Form processing
Our contact form is powered by Formspree, a third-party form handler. When you submit the form, your data is transmitted to Formspree's servers and forwarded to our email. Formspree's privacy policy applies to the transmission and short-term storage of that submission.
Client data during an engagement
If you become a client, we will need read access to your marketing platforms and data sources to perform the audit and build the pipeline. We access these systems only with your written authorisation and only for the purpose of the engagement. Your warehouse lives in its own dedicated database, which we host and manage for the duration of the engagement. If the engagement ends, we transfer the database to you with its full history, and delete our copies of your source data unless you ask us to keep them.
With whom we share, transfer, or disclose Google user data
We do not transfer or disclose your information to third parties for purposes other than the ones described in this policy. Specifically for Google user data:
- We do not sell, rent, or trade Google user data. We do not share it with data brokers, information resellers, advertisers, or credit agencies.
- We share Google user data only with service providers strictly necessary to provide our services (for example, our managed database / hosting provider that stores your dedicated warehouse), bound by confidentiality and data-processing obligations, and only to the extent needed to operate the service you requested.
- We may disclose data if required by law, court order, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of Link & Impulse, our clients, or others.
- We will not share Google user data with any other third party without your explicit consent, except as described above.
Limited use and prohibited purposes
Link & Impulse complies with the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We limit our use of Google user data to providing and improving the user-facing features of our application. We prohibit any other use, including:
- Targeted advertising, user advertisements, personalised advertisements, retargeted advertisements, or interest-based advertisements;
- Selling to data brokers, providing to information resellers, or creating independent databases from Google user data;
- Determining credit-worthiness or lending purposes;
- Transferring Google user data to third parties for any of the above purposes.
Google user data, including Google Ads API data and any data derived from Google Workspace APIs where applicable, is not used to develop, improve, or train generalized or non-personalized artificial intelligence (AI) and/or machine learning (ML) models.
How we protect Google user data
Security procedures are in place to protect the confidentiality of your data. Google user data is stored in your dedicated warehouse database and in our access-controlled systems used to operate your pipelines. Specifically:
- We use encryption to protect your information in transit (TLS/HTTPS) and at rest in our managed database and warehouse storage;
- OAuth tokens and credentials are stored as secrets with restricted access, never in source code, and rotated or revoked when an engagement ends or upon request;
- Access follows least-privilege principles: only team members who need access to deliver your engagement can access your connected accounts and warehouse;
- We use secure, access-controlled hosting with logging and monitoring, and we revoke third-party and contractor access when it is no longer needed.
Analytics and tracking
We measure this site with PostHog, served first-party from our own domain (linkandimpulse.com/ingest) so requests never go to a third-party tracker domain. It is configured with identified-only profiles and no cross-site profiling. We do not use advertising trackers. Contact us at [email protected] to opt out or request deletion.
Data retention and deletion
We store your personal information for a period of time that is consistent with our business purposes. We will retain your personal information for the length of time needed to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
- Contact-form submissions and email correspondence: retained as business records for up to 24 months, then deleted or archived on request.
- Google Ads API data and OAuth tokens: retained only for the duration of your active engagement and to operate your pipelines and warehouse. When the data retention period expires for a given type of data, we will delete or destroy it.
- End of engagement: we transfer your warehouse to you with its full history, then delete our copies of your source data and revoke OAuth grants within 30 days, unless you ask us in writing to keep them.
- Revoking access: you can revoke Link & Impulse's access at any time from your Google Account permissions page. Revocation stops future collection; previously stored copies are deleted per the schedule above.
You may request deletion of your data at any time by emailing [email protected]. We will confirm receipt and remove it from our active systems within 30 days, and from backups within 90 days, unless retention is required by law.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to the data we hold about you, ask for corrections, request deletion, or withdraw consent for further contact. To exercise any of these rights, email us at [email protected].
Changes to this policy
This policy is current as of the “Last updated” date above. If we change how Link & Impulse uses Google user data or other personal information, we will update this page and revise the date. For material changes, we will notify active clients by email before the changes take effect. Continued use of our services after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
Contact
Link & Impulse — Data controller for this site and application.
Website: linkandimpulse.com
Privacy contact: [email protected].
Questions about this policy or your data? Email us and we will respond within a reasonable timeframe.