GDPR Archives

Jul 16 2018

How to Host Analytics.js Locally with CAOS and Cookie Notice for GDPR

1 Comment / How-To's, WordPress / 3 minutes of reading

CAOS has been around for a few years now, bathing in all of the glory it accumulated by hosting analytics.js locally. About two months ago, our lives are enriched by the new GDPR laws. For me, it meant getting back to work and make sure CAOS is GDPR compliant as well. I’ve introduced many changes since then. One of the major new features though, is complete compatibility with other Cookie Notice plugins for WordPress. By far the most popular is Cookie Notice for GDPR. Today I will show you how to configure CAOS to work with this plugin. So you can host analytics.js locally and be GDPR compliant at the same time!

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Jun 21 2018

How to configure Google Analytics in Compliance with the GDPR

14 Comments / GDPR, How-To's, WordPress / 10 minutes of reading

Are you the kind of person that wonders ‘How many visited yesterday?’ instead of ‘Who visited yesterday?’ Keep reading. I’ll show you how to configure Google Analytics in compliance with the GDPR — and as a bonus, help you get rid of that cookie notice.

Recently I set up a cookie notice on my site, because I was under the impression that was necessary to comply with the new GDPR laws. So, after I published an update to CAOS and wrote a how-to for my users on how to use CAOS’ new Settings I found out that none of it was actually necessary. Because, basically, you only need to ask for permission if you want to re-use your visitors’ data (e.g. remarketing).

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Jun 12 2018

How to use CAOS and Analytics with a Cookie Notice (GDPR)

19 Comments / How-To's, WordPress / 4 minutes of reading

Since the 25th of May, our (online) lives have been blessed with a new and improved GDPR. You might’ve noticed my shiny new Cookie Notice! For novice users it raised a lot of questions. Because as a law-abiding citizen, what the hell do I have to do to keep a good, law-abiding website? If you’re a Google Analytics user, look no further. Today I’m going to show you how you can use CAOS (and all of its locally hosted analytics.js goodness!) to make your WordPress-blog GDPR-proof.

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