How I handle your data
I get standard advertiser access to your ad accounts, the kind you can revoke yourself at any time, plus exported sales reports. I never ask for a password, nobody else sees your files, and I delete them when you ask.
Standard advertiser access you grant from your own settings and can remove the same way, without asking me.
No KDP, Amazon, or Meta passwords. No two-factor codes. No banking details.
Before you connect or send anything, on request. Just ask.
What I ask for
Ad account access. You send me a link to connect your Facebook ad account, and you grant me access on the Amazon Ads side. This is normal advertiser access, the same thing you would give any agency. It lets me read spend, campaign structure, and performance. You grant it from your own settings and you can remove it the same way, without asking me and without me being able to stop you.
Exported sales reports. Sales and page-read data live in KDP, not in the ad platforms, so I need exports rather than access. Your last 90 to 180 days of sales and KENP reports covers it. A spreadsheet of your series and current prices helps too.
Nothing else. If you would rather not connect anything until there is an NDA in place, say so and I will send one first. If you would rather share your screen and click through it yourself while I take notes, that works. It takes longer and the analysis is rougher, but it works.
What I never ask for
- Your KDP password
- Your Amazon or Meta account passwords
- Two-factor codes
- Banking details, payout information, or tax documents
- Any arrangement that amounts to "send me your login and I will handle it"
This lines up with Amazon's own guidance. KDP will not ask for your password by email, and anyone who does should be treated as a red flag (KDP account security). Reading your numbers does not require owning your accounts.
Who sees it
Me. That is the entire list.
Weekend Publisher is one person. There is no team, no offshore analyst, and no subcontractor who gets handed your exports. If that ever changes, this page changes first and I will tell existing clients before it does, not after.
Where it sits
Your exports and the analysis built from them go into KdpDeck, software I built and run for this work. It's now also a product you can subscribe to on its own, so it's worth being clear about how that works: every account's data is separated on a secure server. Other KdpDeck users can't see your numbers and you can't see theirs. The only person who can open what's in your account is me.
What I do with it
- Your data is used to produce your own work and nothing else
- It is never sold, shared, or handed to anyone else
- It is never used to train anyone's model
- Patterns across accounts inform my judgement, but nothing identifying yours ever appears in another client's report or in anything public
- In any published sample, titles, series names, and covers are removed or replaced
That fourth point is worth being precise about, because it is the thing you are partly paying for. Knowing that a certain kind of creative is working across a lot of accounts this month is exactly what makes my read useful. What travels between accounts is the pattern. What never travels is your numbers, your titles, or the fact that you are a client.
When we are done
- Ad account access: remove it from your own settings whenever you like. You do not need to tell me.
- Exports and working files: deleted on request, and I will confirm when it is done.
- Your written scorecard is yours. Keep it, forward it, do what you like with it.
Contracts
A mutual NDA is available before you send anything. Just ask and I will send one over.
I am a sole trader based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. If you are a UK or EU press with questions about where your commercial data is going, tell me early and I will get you a straight answer rather than a shrug.
Questions
Email [email protected] and ask. If a data or confidentiality question is what is stopping you getting started, raise it first rather than last. I would rather solve it before you send me anything than discover it halfway through.