Privacy policy

Dash of Ads is a simple front end for Google Ads, made by SiteHatchery. This policy explains what information Dash of Ads uses, why, who else handles it, and how to have it deleted. Questions go to hello@dashofads.com.

What we collect

• Your account: your name, email address and password (stored as a one-way hash).
• Your Google connection: when you choose Connect Google, Google gives Dash of Ads a token that lets it work with your Google Ads accounts, along with your Google email address. The token is stored encrypted.
• Google Ads data: for the accounts you link, Dash of Ads reads campaigns, ad groups, ads, assets, keywords, search terms, targeting, conversions, recommendations and performance figures (impressions, clicks, cost and conversions).
• What you tell us: your site details, setup answers, instructions and chat messages, plus images you upload for your ads.
• Your website's public pages: Dash of Ads reads public pages of the sites you add, for example to write sitelinks or check that a conversion code is installed.
• Waitlist: if you join the waitlist, your email address.

How we use Google user data

Dash of Ads uses data from your Google account only to provide the features you see in the app:

• showing how your campaigns are doing, in plain language;
• suggesting changes, and answering your questions about your account;
• making changes to your Google Ads account only when you confirm them. Each change is first test-run with Google, shown to you, logged, and can be undone.

We do not sell Google user data, use it for advertising, use it to build profiles of you, or let people read it except where you ask us to (for example for support), where it's needed for security, or where the law requires it.

Dash of Ads' use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

AI processing

To write suggestions and answer chat questions, Dash of Ads sends the relevant account details (campaign settings, ad text, keywords, search terms and performance figures) and your messages to Anthropic's Claude API. Anthropic processes this only to return a response to Dash of Ads and does not use it to train its models. Google user data is never used to train or improve AI models, ours or anyone else's.

Who else handles your information

• Google, to read and change your Google Ads accounts at your request.
• Anthropic, for AI suggestions and chat, as described above.
• Railway, which hosts the app and its database.
• Cloudflare, for the domain, network protection and the waitlist's bot check.
• Brevo, to store waitlist sign-ups and send waitlist emails.

Each handles the data only to provide its service to us.

Keeping and deleting your information

• We keep your information while you use Dash of Ads.
• Disconnect Google (Settings, Google connection) deletes the stored Google token straight away. You can also remove access from your Google account's third-party access page.
• Remove a site (Site Settings) deletes its copied Google Ads data, recommendations, chats and change history from Dash of Ads. Nothing changes in Google Ads.
• To delete your whole account and everything in it, email hello@dashofads.com. We'll do it within 30 days.

Security

Connections use HTTPS, Google tokens and passwords are stored encrypted or hashed, and access to the servers is limited to the people who run Dash of Ads.

Cookies

Dash of Ads uses only the cookies it needs to keep you signed in and to protect forms. It doesn't use advertising or tracking cookies.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update the date above, and tell you in the app if the change affects how your Google data is used.