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Developers and vendors: Want a Matomo Hoodie? Add a tag to the Matomo Open Source Tag Manager and this could be yours!

June 7, 2018 by Matomo Core Team

The Free Open Source Tag Manager is now available as a public beta on the Matomo Marketplace. Don’t know what a Tag Manager is? Learn more here. In Short: It lets you easily manage all your third party JavaScript and …

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Categories Community, Development

Free Open Source Matomo Tag Manager now available as a beta

June 7, 2018June 7, 2018 by Matomo Core Team

Matomo Tag Manager is the number one open source alternative to …Wait a minute, did you just say TAG MANAGER! That’s right! Matomo’s free open source Tag Manager is now available as a beta 🎉 Click here to begin using …

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Categories Community, Development, Plugins

Thinking about switching to GeoIP2 for better location detection? Here’s what you should know

June 5, 2018 by Matomo Core Team

In Matomo 3.5.0 we added a new feature to improve the location detection (country, region, city) of your visitors. Especially when it comes to IPv6 addresses, you will see less “Unknown” locations and more accurate results in general. This feature …

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Lawful basis for processing personal data under GDPR with Matomo

January 20, 2022April 29, 2018 by InnoCraft

Disclaimer: this blog post has been written by digital analysts, not lawyers. The purpose of this article is to explain what is a lawful basis and which one you can use with Matomo in order to be GDPR compliant. This …

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Categories Privacy

GDPR compliance for Matomo’s Premium Features like Heatmaps & Session Recording, Form Analytics, Media Analytics & co

July 2, 2019April 26, 2018 by InnoCraft

The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, also referred to as RGPD in French, Datenschutz-Grundverordnung, DS-GVO in German, is fast-approaching. It is now less than 30 days until GDPR applies to most businesses around the world on 25th May 2018. …

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How to complete your privacy policy with Matomo analytics under GDPR

November 25, 2020April 25, 2018 by InnoCraft

Important note: this blog post has been written by digital analysts, not lawyers. The purpose of this article is to show you how to complete your existing privacy policy by adding the parts related to Matomo in order to comply …

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Categories Analytics Tips, Privacy

How to get your Matomo plugin ready for GDPR

April 24, 2018 by Matomo Core Team

Are you developing a plugin for your self-hosted Matomo? Have you maybe published a plugin on the Matomo Marketplace? Then we highly recommend you read this article. On 25th May 2018, new privacy regulations become effective called GDPR (General Data …

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How should I write my privacy notice for Matomo Analytics under GDPR?

July 2, 2019April 23, 2018 by InnoCraft

Important note: this blog post has been written by digital analysts, not lawyers. The purpose of this article is to show you an example of a privacy notice for Matomo under GDPR. This work comes from our interpretation of the …

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Categories Analytics Tips, Privacy

How to not process any personally identifiable information (PII) with Matomo, and what it means for you

September 19, 2024April 22, 2018 by InnoCraft

Disclaimer: this blog post has been written by digital analysts, not lawyers. The purpose of this article is to explain how to not process any personal data with Matomo in order to avoid going through the GDPR compliance process with …

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Categories Analytics Tips, Privacy

Handling high volume traffic and traffic peaks with Matomo just got easier

March 31, 2022April 16, 2018 by Matomo Core Team

When you use the self-hosted version of Matomo on-premise instead of the Matomo cloud-hosted solution, you may experience some traffic peaks on your Matomo server when the traffic volume on your websites increases. For example, every day at a certain …

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