Ads Forge

What Ads Forge does

• Connect your business's own Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Google Ads, YouTube and TikTok accounts, one organisation at a time.
• Write ad drafts and create the campaigns in the account you choose. Every campaign is created paused, and a person reviews it before anything goes live. Ads Forge never switches an ad on or raises a budget on its own.
• See spend, clicks, leads and results from every connected platform in one report.
• Publish the posts you choose to your Facebook Page, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube channel.

Why Ads Forge asks for access to your Google account

Ads Forge has two separate Google sign-ins on the Connections screen, each used only for the organisation you connected it to:

• Google Ads (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/adwords): to list the Google Ads accounts you can reach so you can choose one; to read that account's campaigns and their performance (spend, clicks, impressions, conversions) for reporting; and, only when you press publish, to create new campaigns, ad groups, ads and keywords in the account you chose. Every campaign is created paused; Ads Forge does not edit, switch on or change the budget of a campaign.

YouTube (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.upload and https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly): when you connect your YouTube channel, Ads Forge uploads the videos an owner or admin approves to that channel, with the title, description, privacy and cover image you set, and reads your channel's name and each upload's processing status so you can see where it went and when it's live. Ads Forge uses YouTube API Services; see the YouTube Terms of Service (https://www.youtube.com/t/terms) and the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).

How your data is used

• Data from your connected accounts is used only to provide these features to you and your organisation.
• We do not sell it, we do not use it for advertising or to build advertising profiles, and we do not use it to train AI or machine-learning models.
• Access tokens are stored encrypted. You can disconnect at any time on the Connections screen, which deletes the stored tokens straight away, or remove Ads Forge on Google's security settings page (https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions).
• Ads Forge's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. See the Google section of our privacy policy.