Can we send user name, email, etc to GA for tracking user behavior as custom dimension variables to Google analytics?
You can't send PII to Google Analytics like explicit email. Google could close your Account and delete all data.
Understanding PII in Google's contracts and policies:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7686480
You can use hash like SHA256 + salt to encrypt personal information, then you can send it to Google Analytics.
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The User Activity API allows a Google Analytics property owner to retrieve all analytics measurement data associated with a single user. Do we have any API in Google Analytics 4 to do the same thing by sending userId or uid and get all logged events relater to that userid.
Doc link for Universal Analytics :- https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v4/user-reporting
I need to get following google campaign data for the user visiting our website from google analytics and pass the data to another application
Campaign Content
Campaign Medium
Campaign Name
Campaign Source
Campaign Term
Found this google analytics API for user activity. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v4/user-reporting
Does it provide real time data? Is there another API which we can use to get this information real time for the user based on the google analytics User_ID or Client_ID?
Real-time traffic source information is unavailable via Analytics APIs. Also using APIs for this purpose would be hardly practical because of API limitations and quotas.
You might get some very close results with alternatives like sourcebuster.js but note that this wouldn't provide you with Google Ads synced data
Is it possible to track which gmail user visit my website with the help of google analytics code script.
Please suggest ?
I think you should closely read Google Analytics Terms of Service
Privacy. You will not and will not assist or permit any third party to, pass information to Google that Google could use or
recognize as personally identifiable information.
and Universal Analytics usage guidelines
Analytics customers are prohibited from sending personal information
to Google. The Analytics terms of service, which all Analytics
customers must adhere to, prohibits sending personally identifiable
information (PII) to Analytics (such as names, social security
numbers, email addresses, or any similar data), or data that
permanently identifies a particular device (such as a mobile phone’s
unique device identifier if such an identifier cannot be reset). Learn
more about how to avoid sending PII. Your Analytics account could be
terminated and your data destroyed if you use any of this information.
also this Best practices to avoid sending Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Analytics features and privacy risk
Special care should be taken to ensure no PII such as names, social
security numbers, email addresses, or any similar personal
identifiers, or data that permanently identifies a particular device
such as a mobile phone’s unique device identifier
Answer: It is against Google Analytics TOS to store any information that could be used to track back to a specific users. This would include the gmail user id or email.
is there a way in google analytics that we can retrieve user information, like ip, time browse etc? I need to track specific user on our website but it seems it was impossible
Google Analytics does not display a users IP address to you, while you could in theory save this in a custom dimension, along with other personal information about your user.
Personal information:
The Google Analytics terms of service, which all Google Analytics customers must adhere to, prohibits sending personally identifiable information (PII) to Google Analytics (such as names, social security numbers, email addresses, or any similar data), or data that permanently identifies a particular device (such as a mobile phone’s unique device identifier if such an identifier cannot be reset), even in hashed form. Your Google Analytics account could be terminated and your data destroyed if you use any of this information.
Answer: It is not possible to receive personal user specific information from Google Analytics, while it is possible for you to send this information yourself in the form of a custom dimension it is not advisable because it is against the terms of service.
All Information in Google Analytics can not be directly related back to a specific user.
I'm wondering if it is possible to receive user specific information (frontend or backend) from Google Analytics.
For example: A user arrives on our site and we can read from Google Analytics, hey this person is XX years and has these interests.
I've read some blogs about Google Analytics and the cookies, from which it should be possible to extract the unique user ID (NOT given by us but by Google Analytics). Maybe that's where the identification could start.
Is it possible and if, how?
Kind regards!
What you are referring to is the Demographic and interest reports. This data comes to Google by the way of DoubleClick cookie.
What is the Double click cookie?
DoubleClick uses cookies to improve advertising. Some common applications are to target advertising based on what’s relevant to a user, to improve reporting on campaign performance, and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen.
User ID in Google analytics:
User ID enables the analysis of groups of sessions, across devices, using a unique, persistent, and non-personally identifiable ID string representing a user.
Note: The user id is used internally by Google Analytics its not possible for you to see this User id via the Website or the API.
Personal information:
The Google Analytics terms of service, which all Google Analytics customers must adhere to, prohibits sending personally identifiable information (PII) to Google Analytics (such as names, social security numbers, email addresses, or any similar data), or data that permanently identifies a particular device (such as a mobile phone’s unique device identifier if such an identifier cannot be reset), even in hashed form. Your Google Analytics account could be terminated and your data destroyed if you use any of this information.
Answer: It is not possible to receive personal user specific information from Google Analytics, while it is possible for you to send this information yourself in the form of a custom dimension it is not advisable because it is against the terms of service.