Privacy policy

Ads Library searches the public Meta Ad Library directly in your own browser. We respect your privacy. This page explains what the extension, optional free accounts and this website do with data.

Effective

In short

Your searches, the ads you load and your exports stay in your browser and never reach our servers. An optional free account unlocks up to 1,000 ads per search and media ZIP packages: we store only your name and email address to authenticate you. There are no tracking cookies, no third-party analytics and no advertising, and we never sell your personal data.

Who we are

Ads Library (adslibrary.live) is an independent ad research tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Meta. Questions about this policy: support@adslibrary.live.

Accounts and authentication

You can use Ads Library without an account as a guest (scanning up to 80 ads per search). To scan up to 1,000 ads per search and download ZIP packages with media, you can create an optional free account.

  • Account information: When you create an account, we collect your name and email address. If you set a password, it is securely salted and hashed. If you choose Google sign-in, we receive only your basic identity profile (name and email) from Google to authenticate you.
  • How it is used: We use your account details solely to authenticate you, maintain your active login session, and send password reset or verification codes upon your request.
  • Searches stay private: Your search queries, viewed ads and exported files are processed locally on your device and are never linked to your account or saved on our servers.
  • Account deletion: You can delete your account permanently at any time from your Account Settings page. Deleting your account immediately removes your user profile and authentication credentials from our database.

What the extension does with data

  • Searches and results. When you search, the extension opens a small facebook.com/ads/library window, with an Ads Library notice over the page, and runs the Meta Ad Library’s own requests in it. The requests go from your browser straight to Meta. The ads that come back stay in the memory of your Ads Library tab and are gone when you close it.
  • Your Facebook session. If you are signed in to Facebook in this browser, those requests carry your Facebook session, like any visit to the Ad Library, and Meta handles them under its own privacy policy. To make the requests the way Meta’s page does, the extension reads your Facebook user ID and the page’s request token from that page and sends them only back to Meta with the request. It does not store them, and it never reads or sends your password or cookies anywhere else.
  • Exports. ZIP, CSV and JSON files are built in your browser from the ads you loaded. Their images and videos are downloaded from Meta’s media servers (fbcdn.net). The file is saved on your device; we never receive it.
  • Stored on your device. Your theme choice and your recent searches (the extension’s local storage), and the ID of the Meta Ad Library window and the exports in progress (session storage, cleared when the browser closes). None of this leaves your device. Removing the extension deletes it.

The extension contains all of its code. It loads no code from the internet, shows no ads and sends nothing to us or to anyone other than Meta.

The permissions the extension asks for

  • Read and change data on www.facebook.com: to open the Meta Ad Library in a small window, run its search requests there and show the “Keep this window open” notice over it.
  • Read data on fbcdn.net: Meta’s image and video servers, to download the media of the ads you export and to show their images.
  • Scripting: to run those Ad Library requests inside the Meta Ad Library window and to show the notice there.
  • Storage: to remember which window is the Meta Ad Library window, so all your Ads Library tabs share one.

This website

adslibrary.live is a set of static pages. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics or advertising scripts; its fonts and images are served from this site. Your theme choice is kept in your browser’s local storage. The company that hosts the website may record standard access logs (IP address, browser and time of a request) to deliver and protect it; we do not use them to identify you. The example ads on the homepage are made up and contain no real advertiser’s data.

If you email us, we use your message and address only to answer you, and delete them when they are no longer needed.

Sharing and selling

We do not sell, rent or share personal data, and we do not use or transfer data for advertising, for credit decisions or for any purpose other than the features described here. The use of information by Ads Library complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

Children

Ads Library is a tool for businesses and marketers. It is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes to this policy

If the extension or the website starts to handle data differently, we update this page and its effective date before the change takes effect.

Contact

Email support@adslibrary.live with any question about privacy.