Privacy

Privacy at Search Desk

Search Desk is a trading name of PHILLIPSGROUPUK LIMITED, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17567515), registered office 124-128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX. We decide how the information below is used. Questions or requests: contact@searchdesk.uk.

If you visit searchdesk.uk

• We use Google Analytics (through Google Tag Manager) to count visits: the pages you view, your device and browser, your general location, and whether you click to email us, to sign in or to another Phillips Group site. We never send it your name, your email address or anything you type.
• Google Analytics sets cookies (_ga and _ga_HCS714HR6N) to tell one visit from the next. Google says it does not log or store IP addresses in Google Analytics 4.
• We keep this data for up to 14 months.

If you email us

• We use your message and email address to reply, in our Google Workspace mailbox.

If you sign in to Search Desk

• You sign in with Google. Google tells us your email address, your name and your profile picture. We never see or hold a password.
• Only email addresses with a seat at a company, or on the Search Desk team, can get in.
• We set one cookie, __Host-sd, to keep you signed in. It is needed for the service to work and lasts 14 days. We store only a scrambled (hashed) copy of it.
• We keep a log of sign-ins and of changes made in Search Desk (who, what and when), to keep accounts secure.

Your company’s Google Ads data

• Your company links its Google Ads account to our manager account. Search Desk only reads it: it never changes your campaigns.
• We store your company’s figures (campaign performance, search terms, settings) to show them to your company’s people and no one else. We keep up to two years of history.
• Your company’s data is never shown to another company.

Export to Sheets

• If you choose Export to Sheets, Google asks you to let Search Desk create files in your Google Drive. That permission is used in your browser only to create the sheet you asked for. Search Desk’s servers never receive it.

Demo links

• A demo link opens a made-up company. You don’t sign in.
• If you use “Make it look like yours”, we read the website you enter for its colours, logo and name, and keep that look on your link until midnight (London time).

Who helps us run it

• Cloudflare hosts Search Desk and its database (Western Europe region).
• Google provides sign-in, the Google Ads API, Google Analytics and our email.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of your information, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how we use it: email contact@searchdesk.uk. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).

Last updated 12 November 2026