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title: "GDPR in Open Web Analytics"
description: "General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance made user privacy an important step in web design in 2018. The popular WordPress content management system (CMS) built in a GDPR section to assist..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/analytics/gdpr-open-web-analytics/
date: 2019-05-29
modified: 2022-04-04
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["Web Analytics"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# GDPR in Open Web Analytics

[General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)](/support/news/updates-to-our-privacy-policy/) compliance made user privacy an important step in web design in 2018. The popular WordPress content management system (CMS) built in a GDPR section to assist its users with compliance while other CMS’s offered plugins to do the same.

Open Web Analytics doesn’t have a GDPR module but added features the same year to assist users with compliance. Here we’ll cover how to **improve GDPR compliance in Open Web Analytics**.

## Improve GDPR Compliance

1. Log into Open Web Analytics. [![Administration page](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/owa/owa-settings.png)](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/owa/owa-settings.png)
2. Select **Administration** at the top.
3. Turn on *Anonymize IP Addresses* to remove the last octet – e.g. 128.0.0.*** – during storage.
4. Turn off *Geo-location* to ignore visitor location using [Geo-IP](https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/).
5. Turn off *Feed Link Tracking* to block tracking RSS or Atom feeds.
6. [Disable or remove unneeded modules](/support/website/analytics/remove-open-web-analytics-modules/) – Domstream, Maxmind GeoIP, and Remote Queue.

Open Web Analytics also respects the [Do Not Track web browser settings](https://github.com/padams/Open-Web-Analytics/issues/336). Learn more about Open Web Analytics [in our Support Center](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/analytics/setup-open-web-analytics/).