{"id":43099,"date":"2019-05-29T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/?p=43099"},"modified":"2022-04-04T20:57:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T00:57:21","slug":"gdpr-open-web-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/analytics\/gdpr-open-web-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"GDPR in Open Web Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/support\/news\/updates-to-our-privacy-policy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)<\/a> 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\u2019s offered plugins to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Open Web Analytics doesn\u2019t have a GDPR module but added features the same year to assist users with compliance. Here we\u2019ll cover how to <strong>improve GDPR compliance in Open Web Analytics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Improve GDPR Compliance<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li>Log into Open Web Analytics.\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/images\/stories\/owa\/owa-settings.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Administration page\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/images\/stories\/owa\/owa-settings.png\" title=\"Click for full image\"><\/a><div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div><\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Administration<\/strong> at the top.<\/li>\n<li>Turn on <em>Anonymize IP Addresses<\/em> to remove the last octet \u2013 e.g. 128.0.0.*** \u2013 during storage.<\/li>\n<li>Turn off <em>Geo-location<\/em> to ignore visitor location using <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.maxmind.com\/geoip\/geoip2\/geolite2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Geo-IP<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Turn off <em>Feed Link Tracking<\/em> to block tracking RSS or Atom feeds.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/website\/analytics\/remove-open-web-analytics-modules\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Disable or remove unneeded modules<\/a> \u2013 Domstream, Maxmind GeoIP, and Remote Queue.<\/li><div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div><\/ol>\n<br><p>Open Web Analytics also respects the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/padams\/Open-Web-Analytics\/issues\/336\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Do Not Track web browser settings<\/a>. Learn more about Open Web Analytics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/analytics\/setup-open-web-analytics\/\">in our Support Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 its users with compliance while other CMS\u2019s offered plugins to do the same. Open Web Analytics doesn\u2019t have a GDPR module but added features<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/analytics\/gdpr-open-web-analytics\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GDPR in Open Web Analytics | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/analytics\/gdpr-open-web-analytics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GDPR in Open Web Analytics | InMotion Hosting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance made user privacy an important step in web design in 2018. 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