This Privacy Policy explains how Small Business Branding Tools (“we,” “us,” or “our”) handles information in connection with our website and our internal use of the Pinterest API.
1. Purpose of This Service
Small Business Branding Tools provides informational resources related to branding and design tools for small businesses.
We also use the Pinterest API internally to retrieve analytics for our own Pinterest Business account. The Pinterest API integration is not offered as a service to other users and is not used to access other users’ private Pinterest accounts.
2. Pinterest API Data
Our Pinterest API integration may access analytics and information associated with our own authenticated Pinterest Business account, including:
- Pin impressions
- Pin saves
- Outbound clicks
- Pin and board information necessary to identify and analyze our own content
This information is used only for internal analytics, reporting, performance measurement, and improvement of our own Pinterest content.
We do not use the Pinterest API to collect private data from unrelated Pinterest users.
Access to Pinterest data is authorized through Pinterest’s official authentication mechanisms and is subject to Pinterest’s applicable terms and policies.
3. Website Analytics
When a visitor reaches our website from one of our Pinterest Pins, we may collect limited anonymous technical information for performance measurement.
The information we may record includes:
- An internal Pin identifier such as PIN01
- A randomly generated anonymous session identifier
- The page path visited
- The landing time
The anonymous session identifier is used to distinguish sessions and reduce duplicate counting within a limited period.
We do not intentionally store names, email addresses, Pinterest user IDs, or other directly identifying personal information in our analytics dataset.
We also do not intentionally store visitors’ IP addresses in our custom analytics dataset.
4. How We Use Information
Information collected through Pinterest analytics and our website analytics is used only to:
- Measure content performance
- Understand traffic from our Pinterest content
- Calculate anonymous session counts
- Compare the performance of our own Pins
- Improve our website, content, and marketing strategy
- Maintain and troubleshoot our analytics systems
We do not sell personal information.
5. Affiliate Links and Third-Party Websites
Our website may contain affiliate links to third-party products or services.
If you follow an affiliate link, the destination website may collect information according to its own privacy policy and technologies. We do not control the privacy practices of those third-party websites.
We may receive a commission when a qualifying purchase is made through an affiliate link, at no additional cost to the visitor.
6. Data Sharing
We do not sell or rent personal information.
Limited technical data may be processed by service providers that support our website and analytics infrastructure, including Cloudflare.
Pinterest data is processed in accordance with the permissions granted through the Pinterest API and is used only for our own authorized account and internal analytics purposes.
7. Data Retention
We retain analytics information only for as long as reasonably necessary for performance measurement, reporting, troubleshooting, and business analysis.
Anonymous analytics data may be retained for historical comparison unless deletion is required for legal, security, or operational reasons.
8. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect credentials and analytics data.
Pinterest API credentials, access tokens, refresh tokens, API secrets, and other authentication credentials are not intentionally exposed publicly or stored in publicly accessible website code.
9. Children’s Privacy
This website and our Pinterest API integration are not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
10. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights regarding personal information that is processed about you.
Because our custom analytics system is designed to use anonymous session identifiers rather than directly identifying information, we may not be able to associate anonymous analytics records with a particular individual.
11. Third-Party Services
Our service may interact with third-party services including:
- Cloudflare
- Affiliate and design-resource websites linked from our site
Use of those services is also subject to their respective privacy policies and terms.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, analytics practices, API integrations, or legal requirements change.
The updated version will be published on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.
13. Contact
For privacy-related questions regarding Small Business Branding Tools, please use the contact information made available through the Small Business Branding Tools website.