How DiscoverGap handles your Google data
What we read from Search Console and Analytics, what we never do with it, and how to remove it. Read this before you connect.
Connecting Search Console to any tool is a trust decision, so here is exactly what happens when you connect it to DiscoverGap. The full detail is in the privacy policy; this is the plain version.
What we read
- The list of sites in your Search Console, so you can pick one.
- For the sites you pick: Search, Discover and Google News figures, meaning clicks, impressions, click rate, position, pages, searches, countries and dates.
- If you also connect Analytics: your list of properties, and visits and engagement for the one you choose.
Access is read-only. DiscoverGap can't change anything in Search Console, Analytics or on your site, and it never asks for more than it needs.
What we never do
- Sell your data, or use it for advertising.
- Use it to train AI models.
- Read your Gmail, Drive or anything else in your Google account.
Two things leave our servers, and only to build your report. A summary of your figures goes to our AI provider to write your 30-day plan, under paid terms that don't allow training on it. Up to 50 of your top search queries a week go to the provider that looks up public Google results, to show who ranks above you.
Keeping and deleting
Your Google access token is stored encrypted. Figures are kept for at most 16 months, the same as Search Console. Remove a site, disconnect your Google account or delete your DiscoverGap account, and the figures are deleted and we cancel our access with Google at the same time.
If you have a question about any of this, write to us from the contact page. A named grievance officer answers privacy complaints.