What we keep
- Your sign-in session, so you stay signed in.
- For Pro client history: monthly and daily totals (visits, reach, clicks and so on), the client's name, and the names of the files the totals came from.
- Read-only connections to accounts you choose to connect.
- A security log of who changed what, and when.
What we never do
- Store your uploaded spreadsheets. They're read in your browser.
- Collect anything about individual website visitors or followers.
- Post, comment, message or change anything in a connected account.
- Sell or rent data, or use it for advertising.
Who we are
Board Reports, also called the Analytics Simplifier, is run by Palm Desert Geeks, 77564 Country Club Dr #220, Palm Desert, CA 92211. It turns website and social media figures into a plain-English monthly report for a business or nonprofit board. When this policy says "we", it means Palm Desert Geeks.
Files you upload
Spreadsheets and exports (CSV, Excel, JSON, text and zip files) are opened and read inside your own browser. The files themselves are never sent to our server.
Screenshots and PDF reports are different: to read the figures in a picture, the tool sends that image or PDF through our server to Anthropic, the company that makes the Claude AI model, and gets the figures back for you to check. The same happens with the figures (not files) when you click "Write the AI deep summary". Anthropic processes this under its commercial terms, which don't allow it to train its models on this content. We don't keep the images or PDFs.
Client history (Pro)
If you choose a client under "Client history", the tool saves the figures it worked out for that client on our server so next month's report can compare with this month and last year. What is saved:
- Totals by day or month, such as site visits, people reached, interactions and followers.
- The client name you typed, and the name of each upload the totals came from.
Each access code has its own private storage area, and no other code can see it. You can remove a single saved upload, disconnect an account, or delete a client's whole history at any time from the tool, and it's removed from our server at that moment.
Accounts you connect
With the account owner's permission, the tool can read reporting figures straight from these services. Every connection is read-only, and the owner can remove our access at any time from the service itself.
| Service | What we read | How to remove our access |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | Monthly totals: visits, unique visitors, pages viewed, bounce rate and key events. Optionally for one country only. | In Google Analytics, Admin, Property access management, remove our service account. |
| Google Search Console | Daily totals of clicks from Google search and times the site appeared in results. | In Search Console, Settings, Users and permissions, remove our service account. |
| Facebook Pages and Instagram professional accounts | Page and account totals: views, reach, interactions and follower counts. | In Meta Business Settings, remove our business's access to the Page or account. |
| LinkedIn Pages | Page totals: impressions, clicks, reactions, comments, shares, follower gains and page views, for Pages where the person who connects is an admin. | Remove the app under LinkedIn Settings, Data privacy, or remove the admin role. |
These are aggregate statistics. We don't receive names, profiles, messages or anything else about individual visitors or followers, and we only use what we receive to produce that client's reports. The keys and tokens that let the tool connect are stored on our server, outside the website, and are never sent to your browser. When a connection is removed, the tool stops updating it; you choose whether the figures already saved are kept or deleted.
Cookies and the services this site uses
- One sign-in cookie keeps you signed in and protects forms from forgery. There are no advertising or tracking cookies on board.pdgeeks.com.
- Google Fonts supplies the typefaces, so your browser contacts Google when a page loads.
- PayPal handles the Pro upgrade payment. We never see your card or bank details; we only receive confirmation that the payment went through.
Security logs
For each save, connection, disconnection and deletion, the server records the time, the action, the client it applied to, the IP address and the browser type. We use this only to investigate problems and misuse.
Who else sees your data
Nobody buys it and nobody gets it for marketing. Data leaves our server only to: Anthropic, when you ask the tool to read a picture or write the AI summary; the service you connected, when the tool asks it for figures; and PayPal, for payments. We may disclose information if the law requires it.
How long we keep it
Client history stays until you delete it, or until you ask us to. Connections stay until you or the account owner remove them. If an access code is closed, its history is deleted on request.
Your choices and rights
You can see, correct or delete everything saved for a client from within the tool. You can also ask us to send you a copy of what we hold, or to delete it, by contacting us below. California residents have the right to know what personal information is collected, to delete it, and not to be discriminated against for using these rights; we don't sell or share personal information as defined by California law.
Children
This tool is for businesses and organizations. It isn't intended for anyone under 16, and we don't knowingly collect information from children.
Changes to this policy
If we change how data is handled, we'll update this page and the date at the top before the change takes effect.
Contact us
Palm Desert Geeks
77564 Country Club Dr #220, Palm Desert, CA 92211
info@pdgeeks.com
(760) 278-9676