Privacy and data handling

Recommendation insight stays on your site

Smart Related Products is designed to help you understand the product relationships shoppers respond to without sending recommendation analytics to GoScript or another external analytics provider. Recommendation calculation, validated-click attribution, and reporting data are processed and stored on your WordPress and WooCommerce site.

Local recommendation analyticsReports and recommendation relationships stay in your own WordPress environment.

Useful aggregate reportingReview product-relationship outcomes without a separate external analytics service.

No analytics or attribution cookies

The plugin does not create an analytics cookie or attribution cookie. It also does not depend on tracking parameters, theme-specific recommendation markers, or custom storefront selectors to identify a valid recommendation journey.

Instead, interaction tracking is page-load and referrer based. When it is enabled, a click is recorded only after Smart Related Products validates that the journey came from a currently displayed, eligible recommendation relationship.

Temporary attribution state, built for the journey at hand

To connect a valid recommendation click with a later matching purchase, the plugin temporarily stores a one-way HMAC identifier derived from IP address and User-Agent information. The plugin does not store the raw IP address or raw User-Agent for this attribution purpose.

That temporary attribution state is retained only until the configured attribution window ends. A daily WordPress scheduled cleanup removes expired rows, and the plugin’s correctness checks ignore expired attribution data even if a scheduled cleanup has not yet run.

Reports focus on product relationships, not visitor profiles

Permanent Smart Related Products reports contain daily aggregate statistics for source-to-recommended product relationships, including validated clicks, attributed orders, conversion rate, and attributed net revenue where eligible. They are designed to help you understand which product pairings are gaining useful traction.

Those permanent report rows do not contain visitor identifiers. This gives you a practical local reporting view while keeping the focus on product relationships and merchandising insight.

Use your store’s privacy information to give shoppers the full picture

When the commercial runtime is active, Smart Related Products adds factual privacy-policy text through WordPress’s privacy-policy helper. It describes the plugin’s own local processing and temporary attribution behavior so you have clear material to review for your store.

Licensing is separate from recommendation analytics

License activation and verification are handled through the plugin’s dedicated License page. Recommendation analytics and customer purchase-relationship reporting are not sent to GoScript as part of the plugin’s reporting workflow.

Keeping these concerns separate helps you activate and manage the product while recommendation insight continues to live where you work: inside your WooCommerce store.