Effective date: August 25, 2026
AARGOS is a browser extension that checks your Amazon Associates setup and helps you fix what's broken. To do that it reads pages you are already signed in to, in your own browser.
It never asks for a password, an API key, or any other credential.
Your Amazon data never leaves your browser. Not your earnings, not your commissions, not your tracking IDs, not your account numbers, not the list of programs you belong to. AARGOS reads them, shows them to you, and stores them on your own computer.
What does leave your browser is a small amount of anonymous usage data, which screens you reached and whether a step succeeded, so we can tell whether the tool is working. It contains no figures from your account and nothing that identifies you. Section 4 lists every event and section 5 lists everything that is permanently excluded.
The rest of this policy is the detail behind those paragraphs.
AARGOS is produced by GeoRiot Networks, Inc. ("GeoRiot", "we", "us"), which operates Geniuslink.
For anything in this policy, email aargos@geniuslink.com, or write to: Geniuslink, Attn: Privacy Policy for AARGOS, P.O. Box 47406, Seattle, WA 98146.
This policy covers the AARGOS browser extension only. Geniuslink's other products, namely geniuslink.com, the Geniuslink dashboard, the API and the blog, are covered by the separate GeoRiot Privacy Policy at geniuslink.com/privacy.
AARGOS runs in your browser. When you start a checkup it opens pages in background tabs and reads what those pages show a signed-in visitor. It reads three kinds of place, and only the ones you are signed in to:
Three things are true of all of it:
Amazon runs its Associates program on a different domain in every country, so the extension has to list each one it might need to read: 22 Amazon marketplaces, plus Geniuslink and YouTube. Listing a site is not the same as visiting it: AARGOS only opens the marketplaces you have actually joined. The full list, with a reason for each, is on the Chrome Web Store listing.
Everything AARGOS keeps is stored locally in your browser, using the browser's own extension storage. None of it is uploaded.
You can erase all of it at any time by using the Reset control in the extension, or by removing the extension. Removing the extension deletes its local storage. There is nothing on our side to delete, because none of it was ever sent to us.
Two things, and no others.
So we can tell whether AARGOS actually works, how many people finish a checkup, where people get stuck, which steps fail, the extension sends a small set of usage events to Amplitude, an analytics provider acting on our behalf.
An event records what happened, never what it was about. For example: a checkup finished; it covered a bucketed range of programs rather than an exact count; a fix-it step reached screen 3 of 5; a step failed because the site was rate-limiting us.
These events carry the name of the thing that happened; coarse ranges rather than exact counts (for example "7–12 programs", not "9"); fixed labels we defined ourselves; how long an operation took; the extension's version number; and a random installation identifier, generated on your device when you install and derived from nothing about you. It exists so we can tell that ten events came from one installation rather than ten. It is not linked to your name, your email, your Amazon account or your Geniuslink account, and we cannot use it to identify you.
AARGOS sends no IP address with any event, so Amplitude does not derive or store a location for you.
You can switch these events off at any time from Usage data in the extension’s footer. Nothing is sent while that is off.
Some screens offer a button to send a diagnostic report or feedback. Nothing is sent unless you press it and submit the form, and you can see the contents before you do.
This list is enforced in the extension's code, not by policy alone: the analytics component rejects anything not on a pre-declared list of permitted values, and the restriction is covered by our automated tests. None of the following is ever transmitted:
If you are in the UK or the European Economic Area:
Amazon, YouTube and Geniuslink are not our partners for this purpose. They are services you have accounts with. AARGOS reads your own pages there; it does not send them anything about you beyond the normal act of visiting a page you are signed in to, and any change it makes to those accounts is made only after you approve that specific step.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not use any of it for advertising.
If you are in the UK, the EEA or Switzerland, the anonymous usage events in section 4a are transferred to the United States, where our analytics provider processes them. GeoRiot relies on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (Decision C(2021)3701) for transfers of personal information out of those regions, as described in the GeoRiot Privacy Policy.
Because the substance of your data never leaves your device, the fastest way to exercise most rights is directly. You can access it, it is on your screen, and the Diagnostics view shows exactly what was read and from where. You can delete it, use Reset in the extension, or uninstall.
For the anonymous usage events, and for anything you have sent us deliberately, you may ask us to provide a copy or delete it: contact aargos@geniuslink.com. Because those events are not tied to your identity, we may need the installation identifier from the Diagnostics view to locate them. Depending on where you live you may also have the right to object to processing or to lodge a complaint with your data protection authority. AARGOS does not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under California and Nevada law, and uses nothing it reads for advertising. The request routes and verification process set out in the GeoRiot Privacy Policy for California and Nevada residents apply here too.
Retention: usage events are retained for 24 months, after which they are deleted.
AARGOS is a tool for people running an affiliate business and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13 years of age, consistent with GeoRiot's other policies. If we learn we hold information from someone under 13, we delete it.
Separately: Amazon's own registration forms ask whether a site or channel is directed at children under 13. AARGOS puts that question to you rather than answering it for you.
If we change what AARGOS collects, we will update this policy and change the date at the top before the change ships, not after. Material changes will also be summarized in the extension itself.