Privacy notice
What we collect, and why
When you visit the site
- Hosting logs. Cloudflare serves the pages and keeps short-lived technical logs (IP address, time, page) to run and protect the service. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in running a website.
- Price test cookie. A cookie named am_v remembers which price variant you were shown (a letter, nothing else) for 90 days, so the price you see on the checkout is the one you saw on the page. It identifies no one. We count page views per variant without storing anything about you.
- Where you came from. If you arrive from a link with campaign tags (utm_source and similar) or from another site, your browser stores that in its own local storage so we can see which channel brought buyers. It is attached to your order only if you buy.
- Meta pixel, only with your consent. If you click "Accept" on the cookie bar, the Meta (Facebook) pixel loads and reports page views and purchases to Meta so we can measure our ads. Click "Decline" and it never loads; your choice is kept in your browser. Legal basis: consent, which you can withdraw by clearing site data.
When you buy
- Order data. Your email, the edition, the price paid, your country, the campaign tags above, and the time. We need these to deliver the files, handle refunds and keep the accounting records Polish law requires. Legal basis: performance of a contract and legal obligation.
- Payment. Stripe processes your payment. Your card number goes to Stripe, never to us; we see the last four digits, the card's country and the result. Stripe is an independent controller for fraud prevention; see stripe.com/privacy. When the checkout offers one-click offers after payment, Stripe also keeps your payment method on file, linked to your email, so a "yes" on an offer page needs no second card entry; it is used for nothing else, and we have Stripe delete it on request.
- Delivery email. Resend sends the download email on our behalf and keeps delivery logs (address, subject, delivered or bounced) for a limited time.
- Download links. The link in your email is signed and contains your edition and email so it can be re-issued; it expires after 30 days. Downloads are counted per order, without IP addresses.
When you ask for the free skill or write to us
If you request the Buyer Words Test, we store your email to send it and up to two short follow-up notes; every one has an unsubscribe link, and we don't add buyers or leads to any other list without asking. If you tick the box for the free Tuesday Teardown, we also send you that weekly email until you unsubscribe (one click, in every issue). If you subscribe to the paid Market Read, we keep your email and your subscription status (from Stripe) to send the issues, and stop when you cancel. If you email us, we keep the correspondence as long as needed to help you and to keep a record of refunds and complaints.
Who else sees your data
Only processors that run the service for us: OVHcloud (website hosting, in France), Cloudflare (the checkout server, file storage, the small database that counts events), Stripe (payments), Resend (email), Google (the Walkthrough, Start Here and tracker are Google documents; opening them is subject to Google's privacy policy), and Meta if you consented to the pixel. Some of these are in the United States; transfers rely on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses. We never sell your data.
How long
- Order and accounting records: the period Polish tax law requires (currently five years from the end of the tax year).
- Delivery and download logs: up to 13 months.
- Free-skill emails: until you unsubscribe or two years after the last email you opened.
- The price-test cookie: 90 days. Event counts: aggregated, with no personal data.
Your rights
You can ask what we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted (where the law doesn't require us to keep it, as with accounting records), object to processing based on legitimate interest, withdraw consent, and receive your data in a portable form. Write to hello@getadmachine.com; we answer within a month. You can also complain to the Polish supervisory authority (Urząd Ochrony Danych Osobowych, uodo.gov.pl) or the authority in your own country.
Children
Ad Machine is a business tool for adults. We don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 16.
Changes
If this notice changes in a way that matters, the date at the top moves and, if you are a customer, you hear by email.