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Ask HN: How to make your Google analytics and Adwords account GDPR compliant

5 pointsby inertialabout 7 years ago
If you are running an honest small business, you are probably short on resources for GDPR compliance. Is there a simple bullet list of things to do to ensure that your analytics account &amp; adwords account are GDPR compliant. Most of the blogs I&#x27;ve come across are full of legal mumbo-jumbo and screenshots of e-mail updates from Google.<p>I could gather this so far :<p>Google Analytics:<p>- Declare clearly what personal information is collected in your privacy policy. Any simple boiler plate avaible ?<p>- Have a cookie consent banner for EU that is opt-in i.e. no tracking cookies are set until the user says so. Hardly anyone is doing this yet.<p>- Use anonymizeIP function in google analytics i.e. : ga(&#x27;set&#x27;, &#x27;anonymizeIp&#x27;, true);<p>Google Adwords:<p>- Declare clearly what personal information is collected in your privacy policy. Any simple boiler plate avaible ?<p>- If you are using re-marketing, either disable it or let it be known in privacy policy ?

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termsfeedabout 7 years ago
Hopefully this helps.<p>&gt; Google Analytics: &gt; - Declare clearly what personal information is collected in your privacy policy. Any simple boiler plate avaible ?<p>If you only want to disclose what kind of personal information you collect, you don&#x27;t need special clauses. Simply disclose what personal information you collect.<p>However, a Privacy Policy should include:<p>- What personal information you collect - What are you doing with that information (the purposes) - What controls users have - Whom you share the information with (third parties)<p>&gt; Google Analytics: &gt; - Have a cookie consent banner for EU that is opt-in i.e. no tracking cookies are set until the user says so. Hardly anyone is doing this yet.<p>You can have a look at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;privacypolicies.com&#x2F;cookie-consent&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;privacypolicies.com&#x2F;cookie-consent&#x2F;</a> as it&#x27;s easy to implement with jQuery to categorize non-important cookies to not load before you get consent from users.<p>&gt; Google Analytics: &gt; - Use anonymizeIP function in google analytics i.e. : ga(&#x27;set&#x27;, &#x27;anonymizeIp&#x27;, true);<p>Yes. This article, aimed at Rails developers, can help as well:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pawelurbanek.com&#x2F;gdpr-compliance-blog-rails" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pawelurbanek.com&#x2F;gdpr-compliance-blog-rails</a><p>&gt; Google Adwords: &gt; - Declare clearly what personal information is collected in your privacy policy. Any simple boiler plate avaible ?<p>Same as above.<p>&gt; Google Adwords: &gt; - If you are using re-marketing, either disable it or let it be known in privacy policy ?<p>You should disclose it in your Privacy Policy and inform users how they can opt-out from behavioral remarketing done by AdWords cookies.