Is it possible / recommended to add a GDPR notice in a shared google sheets, which is published to web for those who hold the link?
The data contained are a live timetable of arrivals/departures of vessels, shared among stakeholders in the port, not requiring sign up unlike other services which will also charge subscribers. I don't see any protected data inside the sheet and is not sharing any of them.
I was thinking of adding a link in the first row with a proper policy related, but in fact I don't now what to guarantee since this service is one way only.
It's not really one-way. It might be read-only, but everyone who visits any google doc is identifiably & persistently tracked by google, and that data is used to target ads, so yes, any use of google docs should carry such a warning, though it should really be google itself issuing that warning rather than you.
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Is google form a Privacy-Preserving way to conduct a survey?
some people are not comfortable with it. Is it because most people have a google account and if they do not go on private mode, they give more information about themselves to google? does google use the responses?
No.
The contents of google forms (which usually feed into google spreadsheets) is shared between the submitters (only their own data, obviously), you as the form owner, and the entirety of google's internal infrastructure.
Google using the data directly would be a really major infraction, just as it would be if they acted on the contents of a gmail account, however, they have plenty of scope to use the information in indirect, less-obvious ways. For example, the data that someone submits in a form could be used on other sites for ad targeting. Google does this in gmail; if someone sends you an email about something, you can expect to see ads on that subject both within gmail and on other sites. To be fair, they may have stopped that particular practice, but the wider point is that you really can't tell.
"Private mode" is irrelevant in this case; it gives very little protection to start with, and if a form requires you to be logged in to a google account, they know exactly who you are anyway.
On top of this you have the problems caused by the Schrems II judgement that effectively made it illegal to store any personal data (in the GDPR sense) in the US about people in the EU. Prior to this judgement, Google relied on the Privacy Shield arrangement and "Standard Contractual Clauses" (SCCs) to allow this. Privacy Shield is simply dead, and while SCCs are valid in general, they are not usable in the US (though both Google and Facebook have been trying to gaslight to the contrary) because the ongoing lack of US federal privacy laws and the persistent overreach of US security agencies renders it impossible to make their claims valid. This is unlikely to change in the near future.
I have curious about when I use a free version of Google Spreadsheet. Could Google be looking into our sheet file? Could they take some data to analyze something from our data like a company commercial, search engine something like that?
Could you guys please give me an answer for that thing, please.
Technically speaking if your data is private and you have not shared it with anyone then you should be the only one who has access to it. Private user data does not show up in Google searches.
This does not say that google couldn't open your file and see whats in it. I really doubt it as how would they know your data from the data owned by millions of other people and the cat pictures. Analysis of data only works if the data it self has meeting to the person doing the analysis your data likely only means something to you.
Google may do some analytics as to how often some types of files are accessed and how much data is in them. Personally i doubt that google will be looking in the actually spreadsheet. However I dont work from google and i dont think anyone here on stack can answer this question for you 100%.
You may want to consider reading though Google
Privacy & Terms and Google Privacy Policy. These files include information about what we can expect from Google in the way of protecting our data and what they use it for if at all.
The question I'm trying to answer for a set of users is how other users end up on their page. There are about 5 different ways a user can end up on your page. For example, they could have searched your name, clicked a link from a newsfeed or received an e-mail with a link to your page.
What is the best way to accomplish tracking these events? I'm initially inclined to create a table to track this. Each link would send an async event to the server to be added to the table. However, I'm also aware that there are many tracking services out there such as Google Analytics and Mixpanel. I've looked at their docs briefly and they don't seem to fit my need.
Am I missing something? Is it worth it to create a "custom" even tracking system to accomplish this?
It is not worth creating your own service. Plus you cannot add async link to search engine result pages or emails (that would require tracking code that you cannot implement in search engines or that would not be executed in mail clients).
Web analytics software tracks traffic sources by analyzing the incoming traffic via its http headers. If there is a referrer set the traffic will be attributed to, well, the referring site, unless the traffic is included in a list of known search engines in which case it will be attributed to organic search traffic etc.
In most systems you can customize source attribution by adding query parameters in the url (obviously this will not work with search engines and the like, since you cannot add parameters to organic search results). For example with Google Analytics you can add custom campaign parameters in email links or advertising campaigns. If people click on those links the parameter value will be send to GA and the source/medium/campaign information will be set accordingly (e.g. traffic from web mail clients would usually be attributed as a referrer, but campaign parameters allow to attribute the link to your mail campaigns).
There might be reasons to create your own system, but channel attribution is not one of them; GA and every other system I know of has this thoroughly covered.
I want to add and remive customers to and from an AdWords remarketing audience via the API. Until now I am able to retrieve the list and can access its field. But neither am I able to access the elemnets of the list, nor can I add another one to it.
Is there any to way to achieve the above?
Not directly with AdWords.
The reason is that AdWords needs to have seen the doubleclick.net cookie to add a user's ID to the audience list, and you wont be able to see the cookies for doubleclick.net (or at least the browsers should not let you see it anyway) so you have no ID to add.
However, depending on what you are trying to do there are a few options:
If the users have already been added to another AdWords audience and you want to put people into different audiences depending on what they've done (e.g. put high spenders in one audience list, low spenders in another etc) you can use the AdWords audience rule builder in the UI to have AdWords do the processing for you.
You could use Google Analytics and user data upload to upload extra information about the users, then use GA's audience list builder to make rules on that extra information, then push those lists to AdWords.
Hope that helps.
Create mobile application, which gives the user ability to look for certain places (payment terminals) nearby and to add new ones. Of course user will have ability to edit places, change some of their meta-info fields, add photos, etc.
I can understand, how to implement such things at the mobile device side(i mean interface and model), but can't imagine, what i have to do at the "google-side" to store locations and get them to device.
I'm looking through developers.google.com for appropriate service, but google have so much different "Maps" services and their variety makes me disappointed, which one can give me necessary instruments.
I'm sorry, if my question is too stupid but i can't realize how to implement such functionality.
If anybody ever made such applications, please help me to find, at least, the service, which can help me to implement such functionality. Sample code at github will be the great!
You're looking to build a "back-end" or a database to store the locations that you are interested in. This means that you will save them on a server, that you will access through requests over the internet from your iPhone.
For a really simple back-end to set up, check out Parse that is very simple to implement.