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Consent manager

It’s a piece of software that helps organizations automate a part of collecting, processing and storing visitors’ consents and data subject requests. All that allows businesses to comply with various privacy laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR ), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) or General Data Protection Law (LGPD), to name a few.


Consent managers enable site owners to inform visitors about the types of data they want to collect and ask them for permission. They also save all the consent decisions and allow the Data processor to view and manage Data subject requests in one place.

There are different types of consent managers:

  • A standalone consent manager
  • An integrated platform

Piwik PRO has an integrated consent management platform as one of the modules in the Analytics Suite. It collects Consent s of data subjects for processing Personal data . The consent manager works closely with the Piwik PRO Tag Manager and manages which categories of tags should be fired regarding the status of users’ consent.


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Also, read more about privacy regulations worldwide and learn what actions you need to take to stay compliant with them:

  • Privacy by design in practice: How “just enough” data beats “just in case” collection

    While collecting more data “just in case” feels safer, according to Matt Gershoff, it’s also one of the biggest sources of unnecessary compliance risk, analytical noise, and wasted organizational resources in the analytics industry today. His approach of “just enough” data collection is more intentional, more aligned with privacy regulation, and often more analytically effective.

  • 4 ways to make your analytics HIPAA-compliant: Implementation guide

    Healthcare organizations have four main approaches to achieving HIPAA-compliant analytics. Each has different trade-offs in cost, technical complexity, and analytics capabilities. This guide compares all four implementation methods – from using Google Analytics with workarounds to deploying fully HIPAA-compliant analytics platforms – so you can choose the right approach for your organization’s needs and resources.

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