{"id":4761,"date":"2018-11-11T23:02:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T23:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2018\/11\/11\/opt-out-notification-matomo-analytics\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T22:24:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:24:05","slug":"opt-out-notification-matomo-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/analytics\/opt-out-notification-matomo-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Display an Opt-Out Notification with Matomo Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many organizations \u2013 including <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/privacy-policy-page-wordpress\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress<\/a> and <a href=\"\/support\/news\/updates-to-our-privacy-policy\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">us<\/a> \u2013 have updated privacy policies to comply with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As Matomo has many features to assist with GDPR compliance and anonymize tracked data, we cover how to <strong>set Matomo to display an opt-out notification verifying the user\u2019s activity isn\u2019t being tracked with <em>Do Not Track<\/em> enabled<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Customize Opt-out Notification<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><strong>Log into Matomo<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select the <strong>Settings<\/strong> icon in the upper-right corner.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Users Opt-out<\/strong> on the left.<\/li>\n<li>Customize text and background of the opt-out iframe message you\u2019ll add to your website. For example:\n<pre class=\"cli\">&lt;iframe style=\"border: 0; height: 200px; width: 600px;\"      src=\"https:\/\/<em>example.com\/analytics<\/em>\/index.php?module=CoreAdminHome&amp;action=optOut&amp;language=en&amp;backgroundColor=&amp;fontColor=&amp;fontSize=&amp;fontFamily=\"&gt;     &lt;\/iframe&gt;<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/images\/stories\/matomo-analytics\/matomo-39-users-opt-out.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"none\" alt=\"Edit opt-out notification\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/images\/stories\/matomo-analytics\/matomo-39-users-opt-out.png\" title=\"Click for full image\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Paste the HTML code into your website using a <a href=\"\/support\/website\/how-to-edit-a-file\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">file editor<\/a> or your website backend. The footer section is an optimal location.<\/li>\n<li>Visiting your website with <strong>Do Not Track<\/strong> enabled will show the following on your website:\n<pre class=\"cli\">You are not being tracked since your browser is reporting that you do not want to. This is a setting of your browser so you won't be able to opt-in until you disable the 'Do Not Track' feature.<\/pre>\n<p>You can disable <strong>Do Not Track support<\/strong> at the bottom as well.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many organizations \u2013 including WordPress and us \u2013 have updated privacy policies to comply with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As Matomo has many features to assist with GDPR compliance and anonymize tracked data, we cover how to set Matomo to display an opt-out notification verifying the user\u2019s activity isn\u2019t being tracked with Do Not<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/analytics\/opt-out-notification-matomo-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-4761","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>Display an Opt-Out Notification with Matomo Analytics | InMotion 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