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Dive into our blog articles for insights on data privacy, product news, and regulatory updates. Discover trends in privacy-led marketing, and explore tools and strategies to optimize user consent and increase revenue.
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Aug 4, 2024
What is a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) and why is it essential for GDPR compliance?
The GDPR and other laws require a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) where data processing activities can result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals. We look at who is responsible for a DPIA, what it should contain, and how to carry it out for your organization.
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Aug 6, 2024
What is a privacy notice and why do you need one?
Most data privacy laws require that users be notified about the use of their data, their rights, and more. A privacy notice is a common way to provide this. Read on for everything you need to know about the what, when, why, and how of privacy notices.
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Aug 6, 2024
Understanding the cookie popup
Privacy-Led Marketing and compliance with global privacy laws require companies to implement a cookie popup that informs users and asks them for their consent. Here’s what you need to know for great user experience, high-quality data, and privacy compliance.
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Jul 30, 2024
Essential guide to data minimization for GDPR compliance
By adopting data minimization practices, companies can reduce the risks associated with data breaches and misuse, comply with regulatory requirements, and build trust with customers by demonstrating respect for their data and privacy. Here’s what you need to know.
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Jun 9, 2021
It’s all about consumer trust: How transparent data management can build up your brand’s image
Building any amount of trust takes time, and for digital companies this is no different. When it comes to data protection, digital platforms have yet to build a reputation of being at the forefront of data privacy. But this is where dedicated Consent Management tools can help. Studies show a worrying trend for companies: with hundreds of options on innumerable websites, consumers are leveraging their purchasing power by taking their money where they can trust that their data is in good hands. So how can you make sure consumers come back to yours?
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May 31, 2021
Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts: why you need to give a FLoC
Third-party browser cookies are facing extinction. Google will be phasing them out over the coming months, which has significant implications for entire industries, like global publishing and advertising, and at a more granular level, for individuals online.
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May 25, 2021
Optimizing your BigQuery tables using partitioning: Time-unit column-partitioned tables
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May 20, 2021
Usercentrics Adobe Launch Implementation Guide (CMP v1)
This is an implementation guide for those who have the Usercentrics CMP script tag and an Adobe Launch Cloud account already implemented on their website, and would like to connect everything in Adobe Launch with the Usercentrics CMP, so services only fire with consent. After using this guide, the result will be Adobe Launch triggering events only after consent is given, or stops events from triggering if consent is denied.
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May 10, 2021
Usercentrics Matomo Tag Manager Implementation Guide
Usercentrics makes it simple for you to collect consent on your website with a few easy steps. Usercentrics allows you to harmonize your marketing and data strategy with legal requirements on your website. Additionally, integrating Matomo to your website in cohesion with your Usercentrics CMP then allows you to manage all in one location your tracking and marketing snippets, such as third party services, without needing to manually block each one of them, while protecting your data and your customer’s privacy.
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May 3, 2021
April 2021 Monthly Product Updates
New month, new product updates! Supercharge your CMP now with this month’s new features and CMP support.
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May 3, 2021
FAQ LGPD
The LGPD is Brazil’s General Data Protection Law, passed by the National Data Protection Authority (Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados). It came into effect August 16, 2020. The LGPD is very similar to Europe’s GDPR and is a framework containing 65 articles regulating the use and processing of personal data.
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Apr 22, 2021
March 2021 Monthly Product Updates
At Usercentrics we are constantly improving your CMP and adding valuable features to effortlessly enable you to harmonize your marketing and data strategy with legal requirements. Check out this months product updates to help you take your CMP to the next level!
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Apr 13, 2021
Page Experience is now a new ranking factor for Google – Here’s the next step!
The heat is on: as of May 2021, Google will make Page Experience, i.e. the “user-friendliness of pages,” a new ranking factor. The project that was already in motion a year ago is finally about to be rolled out.
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Apr 6, 2021
Usercentrics Joomla! Implementation Guide (CMP v1 and CMP v2)
Usercentrics makes it simple for you to collect Joomla consent on your website. With a few easy steps, you can add Usercentrics to your Joomla website by manual script tag, and start collecting user consent from your website visitors. The Usercentrics Joomla integration allows you to harmonize your marketing and data strategy with legal requirements on your Joomla website.
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Apr 6, 2021
Working with data in BigQuery using Node.js
This article wants to get a bit into the actual usage of BigQuery and show how to read and write data using Node.js.
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Apr 1, 2021
Non-compliant Cookie Banner: why 5 big German companies have now been issued warnings
Whether a cookie banner complies with the GDPR or not is no longer a matter of interpretation. On the contrary: since the German Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) ruled on the Planet49 case, there have been clear announcements from the courts at the latest. The “Verbraucherzentrale Rheinland Pfalz” (the Consumer Representation of the German federal state Rheinland Pfalz) has now reviewed the cookie banners from 50 websites – and issued warnings to five companies for various reasons.
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Apr 18, 2023
Our picks of the 6 top CookieYes alternatives for consent management in 2024
We outline some of the best options for compliantly obtaining and managing user consent. Here are our picks for the best alternatives to CookieYes.
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Apr 18, 2023
Our picks of the 6 top CookieYes alternatives for consent management in 2024
We outline some of the best options for compliantly obtaining and managing user consent. Here are our picks for the best alternatives to CookieYes.
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Apr 18, 2023
Our picks of the 6 top CookieYes alternatives for consent management in 2024
We outline some of the best options for compliantly obtaining and managing user consent. Here are our picks for the best alternatives to CookieYes.
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Apr 18, 2023
Our picks of the 6 top CookieYes alternatives for consent management in 2024
We outline some of the best options for compliantly obtaining and managing user consent. Here are our picks for the best alternatives to CookieYes.
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