Ocean Formulations
Privacy Policy
Last updated 14 September 2026
OCEAN MES is the internal manufacturing and inventory system of Ocean Formulations. It is not a consumer product and not offered to the public: an account is issued by Ocean Formulations to its own staff, and there is no sign-up.
This page describes what the application does with data obtained through Google APIs. It is written for the one integration that uses them.
What Google data the application accesses
OCEAN MES requests a single OAuth scope,
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets, authorised by one
Ocean Formulations staff account. It requests no access to Gmail, Drive files
generally, Calendar, Contacts, location, or any Google profile data beyond the
email address of the account that grants consent.
Why it is used
Ocean Formulations imports raw materials and packaging by sea container. Our freight forwarder maintains a shared spreadsheet tracking those shipments, and one column of it is reserved for arrival status. Our staff member holds edit permission on that column.
The application looks up the live status of our own containers with a commercial container-tracking provider and writes a short summary into that column — for example the container number, the last movement that actually happened, the terminal, the expected arrival, and the vessel. This replaces a person retyping the same information by hand.
What is stored, and where
- The status text the application generates, and the container numbers it relates to, are stored in Ocean Formulations' own database on our own server. They concern our own shipments.
- The OAuth refresh token is stored on that same server, in a file excluded from source control, and is used only to obtain short-lived access tokens for the write described above.
- The spreadsheet is read in order to match its rows to our own shipments. Rows belonging to the forwarder's other customers are matched in memory and discarded; they are never written to our database.
What is not done
- Google user data is not sold, and is not transferred or disclosed to any third party.
- It is not used for advertising, profiling, or any form of marketing.
- It is not used to train machine-learning or artificial-intelligence models.
- No Google data is read or written by the application other than the cells described above.
OCEAN MES's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Withdrawing access
The account that granted consent can revoke it at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Revoking it stops the application from reading or writing anything through Google APIs, immediately and without any action on our part.
Retention and deletion
The stored refresh token is deleted when access is revoked or when the integration is retired. To request deletion of data held about you, write to the address below; we will confirm what was held and what was removed.
Contact
Ocean Formulations — [email protected]