The article explains which type of data Pendo collects about your end-users.
Data storage locations
Event data collected by the SDK is sent to Pendo’s backend and is stored and processed in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). By default, Pendo subscriptions are hosted in a US-based GCP region. Alternatively, customers can request that a Pendo subscription be hosted in EU-based GCP regions. There is no information transfer between the US and EU regions.
Data segregation
The following approaches are used to segregate customer data:
- For Google Cloud Storage (object storage), customer-specific buckets are used.
- For Google Datastore (data lake), customer-specific namespaces are used.
- For Google BigQuery (data warehouse), customer-specific datasets are used.
Automated data collection
The following table summarizes the type of data that the Pendo SDK collects:
| Data | Details |
| Auto-generated App ID on device | A unique string that identifies the user’s device and your app to Pendo. If you have additional applications on your device using Pendo, they will each get a different Device ID, such that they cannot be tracked back to the same device. The device ID is generated randomly for each Pendo SDK integration and stored in local storage. If the end-user clears the app's local storage, the new ID is regenerated. |
| Visitor ID |
Pendo requires an ID for each visitor that logs into your application. Each customer chooses what to use for their Visitor IDs. Customers can send an anonymous ID that can’t be tracked back to a user. Customers can also send the string ANONYMOUS for Pendo to create an anonymous ID for them, which is unique for each app on each device. The Pendo.startSession API accepts null for Visitor and Account ID’s to start the anonymous session. |
| Generic Usage Analytics |
The following information is sent automatically:
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| Device Data |
The following information is sent automatically:
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| Screen Events |
Events for Screens the user visited in the application (ScreenView and ScreenLeft). Screen view events are sent regardless of tagging. Screen’s data include:
It is possible to globally disable sending screen text labels & screen’s title text. |
| Button Clicks |
Buttons the user clicked in the application. Button click events are sent regardless of tagging. A button’s data includes:
It is possible to turn off sending button text & accessibility labels. |
| Guide Analytics |
Analytics related to any in-application guides you have built, for example: “Guide ID” "guide viewed"/ “guide dismissed”/ “Guide button clicked”/ “Poll submitted”/ “Poll response: 5” |
Optional data collection
Our customers have many configuration options, and each customer configures their instance of Pendo slightly differently. The following are OPTIONAL categories of data that you could direct us to collect:
| Data | Details |
| User Metadata | Metadata about users that you may or may not associate with their Visitor ID. This data comes in the form of Key, Value pairs. |
| Account ID | Optional parameter that can be sent from the app to identify a logical user group or an internal account ID |
| Account Metadata | Metadata about users’ accounts that you may or may not associate with their Account ID. This data comes in the form of Key, Value pairs. |
| Code Events (Track Events) |
Code events can be sent by the hosting application. A code event includes a string-based event name, and a set of key-value pairs for event properties. For example: Event name: "could not connect to server" Parameter name: error ID Parameter value: 404 |