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Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 24, 2026
At ProfitIQ, accessible from https://www.profitiq.tech, your privacy is a core priority. This policy explains what data we collect, how we use it, and your rights as a user.
1. Information We Collect
We only collect information that is strictly necessary to provide you with accurate financial and marketing analytics:
Account Credentials — Email address and basic profile information when you register.
Store Integration Data — Synced orders, products, refunds, and shipping costs from connected platforms (Shopify, WooCommerce, eBay, Amazon).
Marketing API Data — Ad campaigns, clicks, and daily ad spend from Meta Ads, Google Ads, and TikTok Ads — pulled in read-only mode to calculate your ROAS, AOV, and P&L metrics.
2. Your Customers' Personal Data (Data Minimization)
When you connect a store, some order records contain personal data about your customers. We deliberately process the minimum required to cost your orders, and no more:
Customer name — used only as the order's display name in your dashboard and to flag repeat-return customers (return-risk scoring).
City (from the shipping or billing address) — used only for courier-by-city delivery and return analytics.
We do NOT collect, store, or process customer email addresses, phone numbers, or street/postal addresses from your store.
From Shopify specifically, ProfitIQ requests only the read_orders and read_products scopes (plus read_all_orders, which extends order access beyond 60 days for historical profit reporting without adding any new data type), and persists only the customer name and city described above. We never use customer personal data for marketing or advertising, and we never sell, rent, or share it with third parties.
3. How We Use Your Information
All collected data is used exclusively to serve your business analytics and platform functionality:
Operate and maintain Profit & Loss dashboards.
Calculate marketing campaign Return on Ad Spend (ROAS).
Estimate COGS margins, courier delivery ratios, and platform fees.
Generate automated financial reports and AI insights for your connected stores.
We never sell, rent, trade, or distribute your store data, your customers' personal data, or ad spend information to third-party marketing services.
4. Our Role & Legal Basis
For personal data about your customers, you (the merchant) are the data controller and ProfitIQ acts as your data processor: we process that data only to provide the analytics you have asked us to provide, under your instructions, and never for our own purposes.
Our processing terms are set out in the Data Processing Agreement contained in our Terms of Service, which forms a binding privacy and data-protection agreement between you and ProfitIQ.
5. Data Security & Storage
ProfitIQ uses industry-standard security controls:
Encryption in transit — all traffic is served over HTTPS/TLS.
Encryption at rest — API credentials (Meta system tokens, Shopify access/refresh tokens) are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before storage. The database is encrypted at rest by our database provider, and nightly backups are encrypted by ProfitIQ (AES-256) before they are stored.
Tenant isolation — zero-trust, row-level isolation enforced per account, so your data is never co-mingled with other tenants.
Access controls — staff access to production data is restricted to authorized personnel, access to personal data is logged, and staff accounts require strong passwords. Test and production data are kept separate.
Governance — we maintain an access control policy, a data retention policy, a data-loss-prevention strategy, and a security incident response policy.
6. Data Retention
We keep personal data only as long as needed to provide the service:
Access/refresh tokens are retained while an integration is connected and deleted when you disconnect or uninstall the app.
Order records (used for your financial history) are retained in your ProfitIQ account until you delete them or close your account. You can erase them yourself at any time from Settings → "Delete my data" — we do not impose a minimum retention period on your own records.
On uninstall, Shopify sends a shop/redact request 48 hours later; we then delete the store's stored credentials and connection. Customer redaction requests are applied as described below.
Deleted data remains only in our encrypted nightly backups, which are deleted after 14 days.
When an account is deleted, we keep a record that the deletion was asked for and carried out: identifiers and dates only, with no name, email address or business data.
7. Third-Party Connections & Sub-processors
We integrate with Shopify, WooCommerce, eBay, Amazon, Meta Developers, and ad platforms. Connecting these integrations grants ProfitIQ read-only API access to your store and marketing data. We encourage you to review each provider's privacy policy.
Sub-processors. To run ProfitIQ we use the providers below. Each processes data only to provide its service to us, under its own data-protection terms.
Supabase — database, sign-in and file storage, in Tokyo, Japan. Holds all account and business data.
Vercel — hosts the website and app; its functions run in Tokyo, Japan, and the sign-in check at the start of each request runs in Vercel's region nearest you. Vercel Speed Insights measures how fast our pages load, without cookies.
Google Cloud (Google LLC) — our API and background worker (Cloud Run) and scheduled syncs (Cloud Tasks, Cloud Scheduler), in Tokyo, Japan, plus key storage (Secret Manager) and alerts (Cloud Monitoring). Starts each business's nightly syncs and records their results.
Upstash — a short-lived cache in Tokyo, Japan. Holds your profile, business settings and dashboard figures for up to five minutes, and request counters for rate limiting.
Google Gemini API (Google LLC) — the AI features (insights, assistant, forecasts, ad copy, support-reply drafts). Receives the figures a feature needs (orders, products, costs, ad spend) and, for a support-reply draft, the customer message you paste in and that order's customer name, status and notes. We use Google's paid Gemini API, under whose terms Google does not use these requests or its answers to improve its products.
Resend — sends account emails (sign-up, team invitations, the weekly digest, service notices). Receives your email address and the content of those emails.
Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.) — error monitoring, United States. Receives technical details of errors; IP addresses, cookies, request bodies and email addresses are removed first.
GitHub (GitHub, Inc.) — makes our nightly database backup and stores it for 14 days, encrypted (AES-256) with a passphrase set by ProfitIQ.
If you turn on push notifications, they are delivered through your browser's own push service. Our main systems are in Japan; Sentry, Resend and GitHub process data in the United States, and Google may process Gemini requests outside Japan. We will update this list before adding a sub-processor.
8. Data Deletion & Shopify Compliance Webhooks
You can delete your data at any time, without contacting us and without waiting:
Delete it yourself — Settings → "Delete my data". Choose what to erase (orders and shipments, products and inventory, marketing and campaigns, customers, suppliers, AI insights, or everything) and it is permanently removed from our database immediately. Deleting "everything" also removes your stored store and ad-platform credentials. Deletion is irreversible and cannot be restored. This action is available to the account owner.
Disconnect Integrations — Settings → E-commerce Stores or Marketing & Ad Accounts → "Disconnect" immediately invalidates stored API tokens and halts syncing, while keeping your historical records.
Delete your account — Account (at the bottom of the menu) → “Delete my account”, in the app or on the website. An owner's account is deleted with the whole business and every teammate's login; a teammate's deletes only their own login. The account is locked at once, and permanently deleted 14 days later unless you sign in and cancel. Can't sign in? Email support@profitiq.tech from your registered address with the subject “Delete my account”; we confirm it with you and the account is deleted within 14 days. Full details: https://www.profitiq.tech/delete-account.
For Shopify stores, we honor the mandatory compliance webhooks: customers/data_request (we report the data we hold), customers/redact (we scrub the stored customer name and city for that customer), and shop/redact (we delete the store's stored credentials and connection, and scrub the customer name and city from that store's orders). Financial figures — revenue, cost of goods, fees, discounts and returns — contain no personal data and are retained as the merchant's own accounting record.
9. Contact Us
For questions about this Privacy Policy, or to exercise any data right, contact our compliance team at support@profitiq.tech.