Scoutquill Privacy Policy

Effective: October 19, 2026. Publisher: Front Porch Puzzle Press ("we").

Scoutquill is a Google Sheets™ add-on that copies reports from Google Analytics™ 4 and Google Search Console™ into the spreadsheet you use it in. It runs entirely inside Google Apps Script under your own Google account. We do not operate a server for Scoutquill. Your analytics data goes from Google's APIs straight into your spreadsheet and is never sent to us or to anyone else.

Data access: Google user data Scoutquill accesses

Your Google Analytics™ data, read-only (scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly): the list of Google Analytics™ accounts and GA4 properties your account can see (names and IDs), each property's list of dimensions and metrics (including custom definitions), and the report data you ask for (for example page views per page for the last 28 days). Scoutquill never changes anything in Google Analytics™: no settings, no users, no data.
Your Search Console data, read-only (scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters.readonly): the list of Search Console properties (sites) your account can see and their permission level, and the search performance data you ask for (clicks, impressions, click-through rate and average position by query, page, country, device, date or search appearance). Scoutquill never changes anything in Search Console.
The spreadsheet you use it in, and only that spreadsheet (scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets.currentonly): Scoutquill writes each report into a sheet of that spreadsheet (one sheet per report, named by you), with a note on the first cell saying when it was refreshed. It reads only what it needs to avoid overwriting your own data (whether a sheet with that name already has content). It cannot open, list or read any other file in your Google Drive™.
Permission to show its menu and sidebar inside Google Sheets™ (scope script.container.ui). This gives no access to data.
Permission to run on a schedule (scope script.scriptapp), used only if you turn on scheduled refresh (Scoutquill Pro). It creates one time-based trigger for that spreadsheet, which re-runs the reports you ticked. Turning the schedule off, or uninstalling Scoutquill, removes it.
Permission to make outside requests (scope script.external_request), used only to call the Google Analytics Data API, the Google Analytics Admin API and the Search Console API (to fetch the data above), and to check a Scoutquill Pro license key with Gumroad. No Google user data is included in the Gumroad request.

Scoutquill does not access your name, email address, contacts, Gmail™, Calendar, Drive files or any other Google account data.

Aggregated or anonymized data. Scoutquill does not create, collect or keep any aggregated or anonymized data derived from Google user data, and it collects no usage statistics. The reports it builds exist only in your own spreadsheet.

Data use: how Scoutquill uses Google user data

Scoutquill uses the data above for one purpose only: to show you your own properties and sites so you can pick one, and to put the report you configured into your spreadsheet when you click Run or Refresh, or when your schedule runs.

It does not use your data for any other purpose: no advertising, no analytics about you, no profiling, no benchmarking across customers, no building of user databases, and no training or improving of AI or machine-learning models (generalized or otherwise).

Data storage: how Google user data is stored

Report results are stored only in your spreadsheet, where you asked for them. Scoutquill keeps no other copy. They are held in memory inside Google Apps Script while a report runs and discarded when it finishes.
Report settings (name, source property or site, chosen metrics, dimensions, dates, filters, output sheet, last run time and row count, and any error message from the last run) are saved in the spreadsheet's own document properties, so they travel with the spreadsheet. The schedule settings are saved there too.
Short-lived lists: your list of properties and sites is cached for 10 minutes, and a property's list of dimensions and metrics for 6 hours, in Apps Script's user cache inside your Google account, so the sidebar opens quickly. Google deletes them automatically when they expire.
Your license key (if you buy Pro) is kept in Apps Script user properties, stored by Google in your own Google account; we have no access to it.
Error reports. If something fails unexpectedly, Google Apps Script records the error message in our project's Google Cloud™ error log so we can fix bugs. These messages can name a property ID or site address but never contain report data, and Google deletes them automatically after its standard log retention period (30 days).

Data transfer: how Google user data is shared

We do not share, sell, rent, transfer or disclose Google user data to anyone. Scoutquill has no servers of ours to send it to. Data flows only from Google's APIs to your spreadsheet. The only third party Scoutquill contacts is Gumroad (api.gumroad.com), and only to confirm a Pro license key when you activate it and at most once a day after; that request contains the license key and Scoutquill's product ID, never any analytics data or Google account data.

Reports are ordinary sheets in your spreadsheet, so anyone you share the spreadsheet with can see them, as they would see anything you added yourself. Think about who has access before you put analytics data in a shared spreadsheet.

Data protection: how we protect your data

Least privilege. Scoutquill asks only for read-only access to Google Analytics™ and Search Console, and for the narrowest Sheets scope Google offers (spreadsheets.currentonly), so it can reach only the spreadsheet it is used in. Outside requests are limited by its manifest to the three Google API addresses and Gumroad.
No copies, no servers. All processing happens inside Google's Apps Script environment under your own account, using your own sign-in. Your data never reaches us, so there is no copy of it for us to lose or for anyone to breach.
Encryption. Every request to Google's APIs and to Gumroad is sent over HTTPS (TLS). Google's infrastructure encrypts data in transit and at rest.
No human access. No person at Front Porch Puzzle Press can view your analytics, spreadsheets, settings or license key.
Secure development. Scoutquill's code contains no third-party trackers or analytics libraries, loads no remote scripts, and is tested before each release.

Data retention and deletion

Report data stays in your spreadsheet until you delete it: delete a report's sheet to remove its data. Deleting a report in the sidebar removes its settings. Turning the schedule off removes the trigger. Uninstalling Scoutquill from Extensions > Add-ons > Manage add-ons and removing its access at myaccount.google.com/permissions stops all access immediately. Because we hold no copy of your data, there is normally nothing on our side to delete. You can email hello@frontporchpuzzlepress.com to ask about deletion and we will reply within 30 days.

Limited Use: Google API Services User Data Policy

Limited Use. Scoutquill's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. The use of raw or derived user data received from Workspace APIs will adhere to the Google User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Scoutquill contains no AI or machine-learning features and sends no Google user data to any AI service. Google user data is never sold, never used for advertising (including personalized or retargeted ads), never transferred to data brokers or information resellers, never used to determine creditworthiness or for lending, and never used to develop, improve or train generalized AI or machine-learning models. Humans never read your data, except with your explicit permission for a support request you send us, or where the law requires it.

Changes and contact

We will post any changes on this page with a new effective date. Questions: hello@frontporchpuzzlepress.com.

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