With user consent mode enabled, Matomo will only start tracking once the user has given their consent. This can be used to ask for consent before enabling tracking cookies or…
…cookie, authentication cookies, short lived session cookies, load balancer cookies, certain first party analytics (such as Matomo (Piwik) cookies), persistent cookies for interface personalisation. Asking users for consent for Analytics…
…First-party cookies (aka session cookies) Third-party cookies (aka persistent cookies) First-party cookies are set by the particular website you visit. These are stored by the website in temporary memory and…
…I track a visitor without cookies when they have not given consent for tracking cookies?. (alternatively, if you are not planning to ask for cookie consent in the future, you…
…help of cookies, web analytics solutions can recognise returning visitors and track their actions across the website(s). First party cookies are generated by one website and collect user behaviour data…
…the cookie consent banner. Privacy notices must be accessible at all times. To ensure your cookies are GDPR compliant, you must: Get consent before using any cookies (except strictly necessary…
…they rejected cookies. In such cases, your analytics reports will be incomplete. Cookie rejection refers to visitors declining or blocking cookies from ever being collected by a specific website (or…
…exchange 3P cookies with advertisers, Google Analytics 4 still relies on third-party cookies (to an extent). Matomo and Piwik PRO, on the other hand, don’t collect third-party cookies by default….
…1 (see: FAQ about trust_visitor_cookies), and a visitor ID is found either in first party cookie _pk_id (see: first party tracking cookies) or in the third party cookie (see: enabling…
…their tags. These third-party cookies have long been under fire and have caused several GDPR fines. The alternative: analytics platforms with first-party cookies In a post-GDPR digital marketing landscape, a…