Prevent user from opening an applescript file

Greetings,
I have written an Applescript for use by the User to change file permissions on folders or files they get from clients from outside our company. The permissions of these files denies the User from opening the files and work with them The script I wrote will change those permissions to Read/Write but also contains Administrator information with regards to Admin Name and Password. The script runs just fine.
Where my problem arises is I cannot find a way to prevent a User from using the Applescript application on their workstation to open my script and view the Admin name and Password. What I need to happen is to have the script run when the User places a file on the icon, but not allow a User to open the script to see the coding. I'm really new to Applescript and I figure i am missing something. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Are these items downloaded into the same folder in each user account?
That part is reliably the same or are users involved choosing the save location?
Frankly I'd scrap Applescript - it is a pain for anything involving admin privs & normal users.
Option 1…
Stick a task into roots crontab to chmod/ chown that location every 5 minutes or so!
If you want to be smart about it check if the perms are in a mess before you fix them. A shell script can do this. Obviously you need to check the path to give the correct user the ownership etc.
Option 2…
Set a launchd job to watch a specific folder & run a command when items are added - like folder actions without the crappy Applescript part
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man5/launchd.plist.5.html#//apple_ref/do…
It would need to be a system level job since the user doesn't seem to have enough permission.
If you need to use an application to allow the user to have control an Applescript droplet could move the items to the watched folder, where the launchd job resets the perms. Then the items could be moved elsewhere via the script that runs from the watch job.
It all seems kinda kludgy, but sometimes that is how OS X is!
Perhaps this is outlandish & impractical but so is manually fixing stuff like this every time someone calls
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