Review the people, purposes and destinations behind connected reporting

GDPR and ppctor: a practical guide to connected advertising data

Understand the information involved in account connections, Slack reporting and AI assistance. Review the published privacy policy, the controls available to your team, and the questions to resolve before approving a workflow.

Begin with a specific workflow, rather than a compliance label

A privacy review is easier to complete when it starts with an ordinary task. Someone wants a weekly advertising report, a warning about a spending change, or an explanation of a conversion trend. Identify the account involved, the information needed, the people who will receive it and the place where the result will remain. That description gives the reviewer something concrete to approve. A statement that an application uses secure hosting does not answer those questions on its own.

For ppctor, the relevant workflow can include a Google account connection, advertising or Analytics reads, application storage, an AI request and a message in Slack. Those steps are related, but each has a different purpose. A connection makes authorized reads possible. A question selects the information for an answer. Slack determines the audience of a delivered message. Saved records support later reporting, troubleshooting and administration. Treating all of them as a single event hides important decisions.

This guide explains the published privacy disclosures and practical controls that matter during that review. The Privacy Policy is the primary statement of ppctor's data practices. Read it alongside the actual features you intend to use. A vendor review should identify unresolved contractual or provider questions before a sensitive workflow is connected. This article does not establish that every proposed use has been approved by your organisation.

A useful first description is short: “An authorized analyst will connect our advertising account, request campaign-level results, and deliver them to a private team channel.” Add the date range, whether Analytics is connected, and whether AI assistance is involved. Start with that bounded use. Broader reporting, additional recipients and live editing can then receive their own explicit decisions instead of being assumed from the initial connection.

Identify the information about people within business reporting

Advertising reports are often discussed as if they contain only business statistics. An account total may indeed describe spending rather than an individual customer. The surrounding workflow still includes people: the signed-in user, the person asking a Slack question, the staff member approving a change and someone contacting support. A report can also acquire identifying information through its title, uploaded material or conversation context. Review the content and the surrounding identifiers together.

The European Commission explains that GDPR concerns information relating to identifiable natural persons, including professional contact details that identify an individual. A company name alone and a named employee's professional email are different examples. Its guidance on GDPR application helps establish that distinction. Avoid assuming that every field is outside the review simply because the user is acting for a business.

ppctor's policy identifies Google sign-in information, Slack user and workspace identifiers, integration links, questions, relevant conversations and operational records. Connected account names and campaign structures sit alongside those records. Analytics reporting is described as aggregated and read-only. That description should guide the proposed use; it is not an invitation to paste individual customer records into the conversation because the underlying report is aggregated.

Inspect a sample question before onboarding a team. “Compare purchase revenue and spend for the last month” can express the task without including a customer's name, email or order history. A screenshot containing a contact list creates a different processing path even if the question concerns only campaign performance. Remove irrelevant personal information before submitting it. This makes the initial review more accurate and reduces the material that can travel into replies, files and support evidence.

Identify the operator and describe responsibilities accurately

The published policy names Iberstar SRL, registered in Romania, as the operator of ppctor. It identifies the company as controller for the account and website data described in that policy, and explains that connected advertising and analytics information is processed to provide selected features. Keep that wording distinct from your own organisation's responsibilities for its advertising accounts, employees and reporting audiences.

A business cannot establish the responsibilities for every connected-data use by choosing a label in a procurement spreadsheet. Describe what each party does in the workflow. Your team chooses the account and reporting destination, provides instructions, selects the features and decides who should see results. The service operates the application and its infrastructure. The review should connect those activities to the applicable terms and the information being processed, rather than infer the full arrangement from a product category.

If your procurement process requires a data processing agreement, a provider schedule or a specific statement about connected customer information, request those documents before approving that use. The public policy is not a substitute for an agreement that your organisation requires. This guide does not claim that a particular contract has been signed, that a certification exists, or that an unseen document resolves your organisation's requirements.

Choose a named business owner for the connection and a named reviewer for privacy questions. In a small team these can be the same person; in an agency they may be different. Record who can decide to connect a new client, move reports into another workspace or retire the integration. Clear ownership prevents the practical problem where the analyst assumes procurement approved the connection and procurement assumes the analyst limited the data flow.

Read the purpose of processing separately from its legal basis

A purpose describes what the information is used to do. For ppctor, the policy includes answering questions, running audits, displaying performance and product information, evaluating monitoring, preparing reports and supporting requested advertising work. Security, failure diagnosis and duplicate-delivery prevention are also described. Select the purposes that correspond to the features you intend to enable; a general connection should not obscure which of those features your team actually needs.

The policy states several legal bases for its processing: providing the requested service, legitimate interests for security and fault diagnosis, consent for non-essential measurement where required, and legal obligations. Those are the service's published statements. A user's Google authorization screen is a separate technical permission decision. Clicking that screen does not document every legal basis your organisation might need for the information that its staff later submit.

The European Commission's principles guidance connects processing to an identified purpose, proportionate information, retention, security and accountability. For an integration review, convert those headings into concrete questions: what is the requested task, what fields support it, who receives the result, and when does the supporting record cease to be useful? Those questions are more actionable than collecting a generic privacy assurance.

Consider two requests from the same user. One asks for a chart of aggregate cost. Another pastes a customer's complaint and asks for an advertising response. They share a conversation interface but introduce different information. Approving the first workflow does not automatically make the second appropriate. Give staff examples of the intended scope so that the purpose stays clear after onboarding, when the convenience of chat makes it easy to submit more context than a task needs.

Review Google authorization as a continuing permission

Google authenticates the user. ppctor does not receive the user's Google password. The integration uses the authorized account's access to obtain connected account information and perform supported features. That is a useful boundary to explain to staff: the application does not ask them to disclose their password in Slack, a support message or a report. Authentication belongs on Google's own authorization path.

The Google Ads scope requested by the application is broad enough to support advertising writes. It is not a dedicated read-only Google Ads grant. Read-only tasks such as account questions and reporting do not themselves execute edits, but that application behaviour should not be confused with the permission scope. The distinction matters when a reviewer compares a proposed reporting use with the wording shown by Google during authorization.

Continuing account access also differs from an open browser session. The service stores authorized credentials for connected features, including scheduled work. Logging out of the website ends the current session; it is not the same action as revoking Google's grant. A person retiring the integration should review the connection, scheduled features and provider authorization together. Merely closing a tab does not describe a completed offboarding process.

Use Google Account permissions to review or revoke the grant. Revocation stops new authorized API access through that grant; it does not itself remove results previously stored by the application or delivered elsewhere. If historical records also need deletion, make that a separate request. The permissions guide describes the practical differences between access scope, feature behaviour and the controls available to the user.

Review Analytics and Merchant connections as additional sources

A Google Ads connection should not make additional data sources disappear into the same approval. ppctor's policy describes GA4 as read-only aggregated reporting, including traffic, engagement, events and revenue. A team may choose it to explain differences between advertising conversions and site revenue or to support the MER dashboard. Record the property selected, why it is relevant and the recipients of any resulting comparison.

Merchant Center adds a different set of information: product details, status, feed issues and related catalogue data. The permission wording can be broad, while the current Merchant tools read and report rather than edit products or feeds. An agency reviewing a connection should understand both facts. Describing the current tool behaviour accurately does not change the provider's wording or create a narrower OAuth grant.

Source selection affects the answer as well as its privacy scope. A GA4 purchase-revenue total and an Ads conversion-value total can be compared with clear definitions. They are not interchangeable simply because both are monetary values. A product report may contain commercially sensitive stock and pricing information even when it contains no customer names. The appropriate audience follows the actual report content, rather than a generic assumption that product data is public.

Begin with the sources required for the workflow. If a team needs campaign policy checks, it does not need to submit individual buyer details to make those checks useful. If it needs a Merchant report, verify the intended catalogue instead of adding unrelated account context. Keep a simple inventory of connected sources and their business owners. That inventory gives privacy reviewers and departing staff a reliable way to identify what must be reviewed later.

Review report recipients as carefully as account permissions

The audience of a Slack message is determined by the destination and its membership. An advertising account permission does not automatically express who should read a result in a workspace. A staff member may have appropriate Google access while the selected channel contains guests, another client or people who have no reason to see financial performance. Review the destination before any report is delivered there.

The application links selected accounts to Slack destinations and posts requested output to those locations. Channel members can see delivered information. Choosing a private channel can be part of an appropriate workflow, but the relevant question remains who currently belongs to it. Review membership, external participants and how files are handled in your workspace. A channel's name is an unreliable substitute for that review.

Files deserve their own attention. A brief conversational reply can summarize a handful of rows, while an attached report can include a much larger set. The larger report may be useful, but everyone who can obtain it should be part of the audience decision. Treat downloaded copies as information that has left the application's direct control. Removing the account connection later does not retrieve an export stored by a colleague.

For an agency, a practical rule is one deliberately reviewed destination for each client workflow. Shared internal channels can still be suitable for authorized staff, but the decision should be explicit. If a report needs to move into a different channel, review the new audience before changing the link. That small step prevents a configuration change from silently becoming a disclosure change.

Review the AI request separately from the Google read

AI assistance creates an additional processing step. The published policy says that an AI feature may send the question, relevant messages from the conversation and the minimum connected account information needed for the answer or draft. The model's input is therefore not limited to the final chart. The way a staff member phrases a request and the context in its thread are part of the review.

The policy lists OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and Z.ai as configured provider possibilities. It explains that the administrator chooses providers for AI functions and that models can change. Do not assume that every AI request uses the same provider just because replies have the same bot name. If your approval depends on a particular provider, obtain the relevant current information rather than treat the user interface as a provider disclosure.

The policy states that Google credentials, OAuth tokens and passwords are not sent to AI providers. It also states that Google user data is not used to train a general-purpose AI model, and describes requests as inference rather than training datasets. These are published service commitments. They should not be expanded into a claim that no processing or retention exists anywhere in a provider's systems, or that your organisation has already approved all provider terms.

A practical input rule is to supply business context without personal detail unless that detail is genuinely necessary for an approved use. “Suggest five headlines for a shaving cream” does not need customer emails. “Explain this conversion trend” usually needs the metric, dates and account scope, not a list of individual buyers. Creative assistance can remain conversational; requesting measured account facts introduces the relevant data-read path. Teach staff that distinction with examples they will actually encounter.

Resolve international processing questions before relying on assumptions

The policy identifies Cloudflare as the infrastructure provider, Slack as a recipient of delivered content and Google as the provider receiving API requests. It also describes international AI processing, including providers based outside the EEA and potential processing in China. The location of the operator in Romania does not establish that every part of the workflow remains in Romania or within the European Union.

If your organisation has specific geographic or contractual requirements, put them in the review request. Ask about the provider used for the intended function, the relevant processing arrangements and the safeguards applicable to that provider. The public policy directs users to contact the service for safeguard information. This article does not substitute an assumed contract, a blanket regional-hosting claim or a provider's general marketing statement for that answer.

Keep the scope of the question concrete. A request about an account's weekly reporting and AI explanations can identify which sources and destinations are involved. A broad demand to explain every possible workflow may produce an answer that is difficult to apply to the one you intend to launch. Supply the proposed use, then review the response against your organisation's requirements and the current policy.

Record the outcome alongside the connection approval. If a team subsequently enables a new AI function or changes its reporting destination, revisit the relevant part of the review. This is a more durable practice than assuming an old screenshot of an authorization screen covers a later processing path. It also gives a replacement account owner a clear record of what was approved and what questions were resolved at the time.

Keep questions, attachments and exports proportionate to the task

A useful advertising question often needs fewer fields than a person initially thinks. To explain a cost increase, begin with cost, dates, campaign scope and the comparison period. Add clicks, conversion definitions and relevant settings when they answer the next question. This staged approach keeps the answer understandable and avoids turning a simple performance investigation into a general transfer of unrelated business records.

Attachments can undo that restraint. Before uploading a screenshot, crop unrelated browser tabs, personal email addresses, workspace lists and customer details. Before sending a spreadsheet, choose the relevant columns and rows. A screenshot of an aggregate chart can carry additional information around its edges. A file named after a client can disclose its identity even if every cell contains only statistics. Inspect the whole item, not just the intended focal point.

Exports should match the purpose too. If a manager needs five examples and an overall count, a complete downloadable table may be unnecessary. If an analyst needs a detailed review, the full file can be justified by that task and its audience. Make the decision explicit. A neat PDF is still a copy of the information it contains; visual polish does not change the recipients or the retention question.

For support, start with the relevant feature, approximate time and a description of the observed behaviour. Provide additional evidence through an appropriate channel when needed. Do not put credentials in a ticket to make diagnosis easier. Do not paste an entire client conversation when one question and its incorrect reply establish the issue. Precise evidence usually helps the investigation more than volume does, while preserving the intended boundaries of the workflow.

Review retention by record category, rather than expecting one expiry

ppctor's privacy policy describes different periods for different information. Slack conversation context normally lasts seven days. Questions, AI answers, submitted feedback, tool-run records and operational error logs normally last ninety days. Deleted Asset Library files have a thirty-day recovery period before scheduled permanent removal. Those categories serve different purposes and should remain separate in your organisation's inventory.

Saved connections, monitoring settings, report settings and other user-created records can remain until removed, account deletion or a stated feature-specific retention applies. Saved observations and results support history and scheduled features; they are not all short-lived caches. Raw draft instructions and retrieved page facts have a different lifecycle from structured drafts and publication evidence. A statement about expiring conversation context therefore does not establish that all connected data expires after a week.

Scheduled cleanup also matters. A record can become eligible for removal before a cleanup job permanently removes it. Some unresolved delivery or incident records remain longer because they support reconciliation. The policy also identifies legal-obligation exceptions. Describe the normal period and the category involved when recording a review decision. Avoid promising a deletion second, an identical period for every table or immediate disappearance from every external copy.

When a team no longer needs a feature, review both its future activity and its saved material. Disabling a report schedule stops that scheduled output; it does not express a request to erase all prior reports. Revoking a provider grant stops new access; it does not automatically remove app history. The retention and removal guide explains these distinctions in detail so that offboarding can name the intended outcome.

Understand what the available technical controls actually address

The policy describes HTTPS, encrypted provider credentials and access restricted by account and role. Those controls address important parts of the workflow. HTTPS protects traffic in transit. Encryption protects stored secrets through the configured encryption system. Account and role checks determine whether a request may access the relevant records. None of these descriptions independently decides which colleague should receive a report.

The application's sign-in session uses a secure browser cookie, and provider credentials are kept separate from normal client-facing results. Slack requests are checked for the expected signature and a recent timestamp before processing. These controls are useful to explain during a technical review because they connect a mechanism to its purpose. An authenticated Slack event still needs the correct account context and action permission; authentication alone does not authorize every requested change.

A team should also consider its own access practices. Shared sign-ins make it harder to attribute who connected an account or approved a proposal. Broad channel membership can expose otherwise correctly retrieved information. Downloaded files can outlive the application records that produced them. Technical controls and organisational choices operate together. Review the user, source, destination and retention outcome rather than treating infrastructure security as a replacement for that review.

Use precise wording in your procurement notes. “The published policy describes encrypted credentials” is a supportable statement. “Every historical object and all provider systems have been independently audited” requires different evidence. If your organisation requires audit reports, contractual security terms or a specific assurance, request that material. Do not turn a product explanation into a certification claim that neither the policy nor the relevant review establishes.

Separate disclosure decisions from permission to change an account

Reading an account and changing an account create different practical responsibilities. A team can approve a reporting workflow without intending every channel participant to alter campaign settings. For supported conversational edits, ppctor prepares a proposal with the target and action for review. The live change follows the required confirmation and execution path. An ordinary question about performance does not itself authorize a mutation.

That proposal should be assessed for both operational meaning and audience. The account owner needs to see which campaign or deeper asset is affected and what the setting will become. Other channel members may also see the proposal. A confirmation control governs the edit; it is not a separate privacy consent form for every person who can view the message. Keep those two decisions clear in the team's onboarding guidance.

The execution path checks relevant authorization and settings again. A proposal expires after fifteen minutes, and supported results are checked after execution. Verification of a setting does not establish that an ad has completed Google's policy review or that a privacy request has been fulfilled. Each status should be interpreted in the context of the operation it describes. Uncertain outcomes should be investigated rather than treated as proof that nothing occurred.

Scheduled Rules are a separately configured workflow. Where an explicitly configured time-based Rule can apply an action, that authority comes from the Rule configuration rather than from a casual conversational suggestion. Review enabled Rules during onboarding and offboarding. If the intended use is reporting only, do not accidentally leave another configured workflow active simply because the staff member usually interacts with the bot through read-only questions.

Separate website measurement from connected account data

Website cookies and account integrations are easy to combine in conversation, but they serve different purposes. Essential session and security storage supports sign-in and operation of the service. Non-essential site measurement is governed by the cookie choice described in the policy. Connecting Google Ads or Analytics is an account authorization decision, not the same action as accepting site measurement.

The published policy describes Google Tag Manager for website measurement and provides Cookie preferences in the footer. Users can accept, decline or change that choice. Declining non-essential measurement does not prevent core features from working. A reviewer should record those controls as they relate to website activity, rather than infer that declining cookies revokes the advertising account connection.

The opposite inference is also incorrect. Disconnecting an Analytics property from an account workflow does not describe the user's website measurement choice. One concerns the property used to answer reporting questions; the other concerns measurement of visits to the service. Use the relevant control for the intended outcome. This distinction is particularly useful when answering staff questions about why the service can still show connected account information after a cookie preference changes.

When documenting onboarding, provide separate instructions for sign-in, integration permissions and cookie preferences. Do not create a single checkbox called “privacy settings completed” that hides which decisions were made. A staff member should be able to identify the connected accounts, the reporting destination and the website measurement choice independently. The resulting record is easier to review later and reduces misunderstandings during a request to stop or remove processing.

Make a precise privacy request and distinguish it from offboarding

The policy provides privacy@ppctor.com for privacy rights and account deletion requests. It describes access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability and objections subject to applicable law, as well as withdrawal of consent. It states a response period of one month subject to lawful extensions and explains that identity verification may be needed before information is released or deleted.

The European Commission's guidance on requests from individuals explains that rights requests require a timely response and that their scope can depend on the circumstances. Do not assume that every request is a demand for the same action. Access asks for information; correction identifies inaccurate information; deletion asks for removal within the applicable conditions. Describe the desired outcome clearly.

A practical request can identify the account relationship, relevant time period and record category without sending unnecessary credentials. For example, an individual may ask about the questions and replies associated with their use of the service. A business retiring an integration may need a separate account-removal process involving saved connections and configurations. Use the correct authority for that request; being mentioned in a thread does not automatically make someone the owner of every connected business record.

Explain any external copies that also need attention. A report already posted in Slack or downloaded to a colleague's computer is part of a different removal task. The policy identifies the Romanian supervisory authority, ANSPDCP, and local data-protection authorities as complaint routes for EEA users. Keep the service request and your organisation's own record-management actions coordinated so that neither side assumes the other has removed material it does not control.

Review an agency onboarding without exposing another client's data

Consider a fictional agency, Juniper Media, onboarding a new retailer called Northbank Home. Its analyst wants weekly campaign reporting, Merchant issue summaries and occasional AI explanations. The agency already uses Slack for internal work. The privacy review begins with the intended sources and recipients, rather than adding the retailer to every destination that the agency has used for previous clients.

The analyst identifies the advertising account, the relevant Merchant connection and a private project channel. The project lead checks channel membership, including any external guests. The agency records which client permission supports the connection and who is allowed to approve advertising edits. It reviews the published policy and raises any contractual or provider requirements before using account data in AI assistance. Each decision corresponds to a real part of the intended workflow.

The team agrees that normal questions will concern aggregate performance and product status. It does not paste buyer lists into the conversation. A detailed product report is shared only when an analyst needs to investigate issues, and its audience remains the approved project team. A short management update can use a summary instead. This is a practical difference in disclosure volume, even though both outputs originate from the same connected account.

Finally, the agency records what happens when the engagement ends. It will stop relevant schedules, review Rules, remove or disconnect the relevant links, revoke access where appropriate and request the required historical removal. Slack files and local downloads receive their own cleanup instructions. This fictional example does not claim a customer result; it shows how a privacy review can produce an actionable operating procedure rather than a folder containing an unread policy.

Review an in-house rollout with distinct audiences

A fictional manufacturer, Cedarline Tools, wants its marketing manager and finance lead to use connected reporting. The manager needs campaign detail and product diagnostics. Finance needs aggregate spend and revenue explanations. Giving both people the same long export is convenient, but it does not necessarily match either task. The rollout can define two appropriate audiences without creating two conflicting versions of the underlying metrics.

The manager establishes the source scope and conversion definitions. The finance lead reviews the reporting period, currency and distinction between advertising conversion value and site purchase revenue. The team selects where summaries will be delivered and who can request larger files. It separately identifies the authorized person for live advertising proposals. The ability to ask a financial question does not silently become approval to enable a campaign.

Staff receive a short set of input examples. A request for cost and revenue by week is appropriate for the planned reporting workflow. A request containing an individual buyer's email and complaint needs a separate decision rather than being treated as ordinary aggregate analysis. When a screenshot is necessary, staff crop unrelated information before sending it. The guidance uses actual tasks instead of asking people to interpret a broad policy while they are trying to solve a problem.

The rollout also has a review date and an owner. If a new department joins the channel, the destination decision is revisited. If the team adds an Analytics property or starts using AI drafts, the source and processing review is updated. That record keeps the privacy decision connected to the work as it changes. It is easier to maintain than a one-time approval that describes an application but never names the workflow.

Review configuration changes and staff departures as data-flow changes

Privacy decisions can become outdated without any change to the product's name. A report moves to a broader channel. A new client joins a shared workspace. An employee leaves but their connection still supports scheduled work. Each of these changes affects who can act, who can see output or how continuing access is maintained. Include integration review in the same handover process used for advertising accounts and business reporting.

Begin with ownership. Identify the person responsible for each connection, the accounts it can access and the destinations receiving results. Review scheduled reports, Alerts, Anomalies, Pacer and configured Rules as relevant. A former user's closed browser is not evidence that those features have stopped. The offboarding decision should name which workflows remain under another authorized owner and which are being retired.

Then address historical material. A change of reporting owner does not necessarily require deletion of every useful business result; a deletion request may require a different outcome. Describe the purpose and scope of the decision. Remove obsolete downloads and Slack copies under your organisation's own procedures. Review saved configurations so that old channel links do not become an unexpected destination when a connection is restored.

Keep the handover concise but complete. Record the retiring connection, the replacement owner if any, the schedules reviewed and the intended treatment of saved results. If provider revocation is required, verify that step through the provider control. If application deletion is required, use the privacy contact and track its response. These are separate operations whose completion should be checked separately, rather than represented by a single “user logged out” note.

Use Slack for bounded questions and clearly scoped results

Slack can be a practical reporting surface when the account link and audience are intentional. A question such as “Show campaign spend for the last seven completed days” identifies a measure and period. The reply can stay focused on that task. A follow-up can ask for the relevant campaign comparison without introducing customer identities or unrelated files. The conversational convenience does not require unrestricted context.

For example, a fictional analyst asks: “Compare our primary purchase conversion value with GA4 purchase revenue by week for the last month.” The intended answer should retain source labels and scope. It should not imply that two differently measured revenue totals are the same thing or add them into a combined business total. That clarity protects the usefulness of the analysis and helps reviewers understand exactly what information was requested.

If the analyst asks for an edit, the workflow changes. A proposal should identify the affected asset, its real parent context where needed and the exact action. The user reviews the proposal before confirming the live change. Progress and execution results describe that operation. None of those messages should need to reveal an owner's email or raw account identifiers simply to make an ordinary asset name understandable.

Keep broader privacy decisions outside ad hoc bot dialogue. A question asking the bot to explain retention can be useful, but a formal rights request belongs through the published privacy contact. A request to change an advertising setting is not a request to remove historical data. A report posted to a channel is not a private message simply because one user asked for it. Teach these boundaries alongside the useful commands so that routine use remains predictable.

Keep an approval record that another colleague can apply

A useful review record names the workflow, its sources, its recipients and its owner. It identifies the policy reviewed and the questions resolved about providers, contracts or safeguards. It says whether the planned use includes AI assistance, file exports, saved monitoring or live edits. Another colleague should be able to read it and decide whether a proposed change fits the original approval.

Do not populate that record with unnecessary personal data. The purpose is to document decisions, not to archive every Slack exchange or copy every authorization screen. A short account description and responsible business role can often establish the context. Store supporting documents through your organisation's approved process and limit access to the people who need them. Procurement evidence can itself become an unmanaged disclosure if copied indiscriminately.

Include an offboarding outcome. State who stops future activity, who reviews provider grants and how historical removal is requested if necessary. Identify external copies that the organisation manages separately. This makes the review practical at the end of the relationship, when the original analyst may have left and someone else must work out what the application is still doing.

Revisit the record when an important part of the workflow changes. A new data source, broader Slack destination, different AI requirement or new automated action can justify a targeted update. The review should remain proportionate: unchanged campaign reporting does not need a new explanation every morning, but a materially different processing path should not inherit an approval that never considered it. Accurate ownership and clear boundaries make that distinction easier.

Frequently asked questions about privacy and connected reporting

Does a Google connection give ppctor my password?

No. Google handles authentication, and the policy states that ppctor does not receive your Google password. The application receives authorized access through the connection. Do not send passwords or tokens in Slack or support messages. Review the provider grant separately from your browser session, because signing out does not itself revoke continuing integration access.

Does read-only reporting mean the Ads permission is read-only?

No. Google Ads authorization is broad enough for supported writes. Reporting and ordinary account questions use reads, while supported edits follow a separate approval and execution flow. Keep the permission scope and the selected feature behaviour distinct in your review. Analytics is described as read-only reporting, and current Merchant tools read and report rather than edit the feed.

Is every saved record removed when Slack context expires?

No. Conversation context, ordinary logs, saved configurations, assets and unresolved work have different lifecycles. The policy describes seven-day Slack context and normally ninety-day questions, answers and operational logs, alongside other categories. Review the retention guide for the record involved. External Slack copies and downloaded reports also require their own treatment.

Can I assume all processing stays in the European Union?

No. The policy describes international providers and potential processing outside the EEA. If your organisation has a regional or contractual requirement, request the current information relevant to the intended feature before approving it. The operator's Romanian location does not establish the location of every provider or every processing step.

Does the bot's answer establish our GDPR approval?

No. A conversational explanation can help identify the relevant feature or published control. Your organisation still needs to review the planned sources, information, audience, providers and requirements. Use the Privacy Policy and the published privacy contact for the appropriate review or rights request. Keep the decision tied to the actual workflow rather than a general statement about the product.