How to capture if a visitor is from an google adwords click.

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When a user signs up on my site I want to be able to store whether or not they came to my site via an Adwords campaign.

I know google uses javascript to track conversions based on a cookie that is created on the users machine. Is there a way I can check this cookie so I can store the source against the user account?

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