FourWinds Portal

The portal gathers figures from the systems a business already uses, and puts them on one screen. A client can see what they spent on ads this month and what it brought in. They can see how many people visited their website and what those people did. They can also see which invoices are unpaid, where each piece of work stands, and which data protection duties apply to them.

Each client sees only their own organisation. A sign-up from the free compliance check opens its own record once the email address is confirmed, and we review it afterwards. Any other new account can see nothing until we approve it. When a client invites someone, the invitation lets that person in.

The portal asks for access to two Google services. It does so only for a client who has allowed it, and only for that client’s own accounts.

Google Ads. Scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/adwords. We read how campaigns, ad groups and keywords perform: impressions, clicks, cost and conversions. We show them to the client who owns the account, next to the sales and enquiries those campaigns brought in. One client account is connected today. A scheduled job reads it once a night and at no other time. No account is read unless that client has allowed it.

Google Analytics. We read sessions, users, page views, traffic sources and tracked conversions for the client’s own websites, and turn them into a written report.

We only read this data. We do not create, edit, pause or delete campaigns, budgets, keywords or ads through the API. A person makes any change to a client’s advertising by hand, in the client’s own account, after talking to them.

Google data is never sold, never shared with another client, never used to build advertising audiences, and never used to train a machine learning model. It is shown to the organisation it belongs to and used to write that organisation’s reports.

A client can withdraw access at any time from their own Google account. They can also ask us to delete the data we hold, and nothing in the portal needs us to keep it.

FourWinds Digital, a technology consultancy based in Ireland. We build websites, dashboards, automations and integrations for small and medium businesses. We also look after the data protection records that go with them.

Our data protection policy, retention schedule and breach response plan are published in full, with the article of the law behind each duty.

Questions about this application, or about data we hold: oscar@fourwindsdigital.com.