Usage tracking helps inform future features and improvements. We appreciate anyone willing to share this anonymous data with us. You can enable this setting under Ad Commander -> Settings -> Admin -> Miscellaneous. Data is sent when you opt in, and once per week thereafter.
Is it really anonymous?
Yes. Data is identified by a completely random string — not a hash of your URL, IP, or other information.
Examples of data we *don’t* collect:
- Specifics about your ads (titles, URLs, images, code)
- Your site title
- Your URL
- Your IP address (may appear in server logs and a hashed version is used for rate limiting, but your IP is not associated with data on our usage server)
- Your email address
- License keys
- Account IDs (Google Analytics, AdSense, MaxMind)
- Values of your targeting rules
- List of installed plugins
- Information about your site’s visitors
Data we *do* collect:
Identification
- A random, anonymous site identifier (UUID) — generated by the plugin, not derived from your site URL, license, or any other site data
- The date and time the report was generated
Ad Commander plugins
- Ad Commander version and database version
- Ad Commander Pro: whether it is installed, whether it is active, its version, and whether a license is active (yes/no only)
- Ad Commander Tools: whether it is installed, whether it is active, and its version
Website environment
- WordPress version, locale (language setting), and whether the site is a multisite
- Whether WP-Cron is enabled
- WordPress and PHP memory limits
- PHP version and whether cURL is available
- Database system (MySQL/MariaDB) and version
- Active theme name and version
Other plugins
- The number of active plugins (never the plugin list itself)
- Whether WooCommerce is active
- Whether the AMP plugin is active
Ad Commander content (counts only)
- Number of published ads, and how many of each ad type (banner, rich content, AdSense, etc.)
- Number of ads created through WooCommerce customer purchases
- Number of groups, campaigns, and brands
- Number of published inserts, and how many use each position (e.g. within content, popup, sticky)
Targeting (counts only)
- How many content targeting rules are in use, per target type (e.g. post type, category)
- How many visitor targeting rules are in use, per target type (e.g. device, geolocation)
- The values of targeting rules are never included — only which types are used and how many
Feature settings
- Render method
- Whether ads.txt management is in use
- Whether consent is required, and which consent method is selected (cookie or TCF)
- Whether local tracking and Google Analytics tracking are enabled, and whether GA tracking IDs are configured (yes/no only)
- Whether click fraud protection is enabled
- Whether an AdSense account is configured (yes/no only)
- Which geolocation service is selected, and whether a MaxMind key is configured (yes/no only)
- Whether ad selling and customer ad management are enabled
- Whether the Brands taxonomy is disabled
