Checking if Google Consent Mode is properly implemented
By using our application with Google Consent Mode integration enabled, gives you the ability to customize the behavior of your Google tags based on the consent given or not given by your users. You can specify whether consent has been granted for Analytics and/or Ads cookies, and Google's tags will dynamically adjust by using cookies only for the designated purposes or cookie categories. This serves as an alternative to script blocking. Google Consent Mode (GCM) is a simple and trustworthy methPopularUsing Google Consent Mode Integration
Learn how to use Google Consent Mode integration to Adjust Tag Behavior Based on ConsentPopularIntegration with Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager (GTM) is a tool that allows you to manage and deploy tags (snippets of code or tracking pixels) on your website without having to modify your site code. If you use Google Tag Manager (GTM) to inject cookies on your website and manage site content, you can set it up so that the scripts are controlled by the consent preferences choices selected by visitors. In this article you will learn: How it works Create new variables Create new triggers Adding the triggers toSome readersWhat is Google Consent Mode?
Google Consent Mode was launched by Google on September 3rd, 2020. Google has introduced it to offer stores and advertisers more flexibility when using Google products together with cookie banners and consent management platforms. It is basically a first step in solving the issues between marketing/advertising versus privacy, without breaking the digital economy. Just before now, the massive collection of personal data and the use of that data for targeted advertising triggered the urge for morSome readersHow does Google Consent Mode work?
Google Consent Mode enables stores to adjust the behavior of their Google tags and scripts based on their users’ consent status. Tags are loaded on the pages before the consent dialog appears, so tag behavior will adjust dynamically depending on users’ cookie consent choices. Measurement tools will only be employed for specifically determining purposes if the user has given consent. Users’ consent status is collected by our application and theFew readersGoogle Ads and Google Consent Mode
It's probably no surprise to anyone today that our measurement landscape is changing in light of new and ongoing privacy initiatives. Advertisers across the world are navigating several regulatory challenges related to cookie consent. We have assessed that stores who try to use consent banners, experience a significant drop in attributed or reported conversions, which severely impacts overall performance reporting and all downstream capabilities like Smart Bidding and attribution, resulting inFew readersGoogle Tag Manager Consent Settings for Google Services
Not too long ago, Google announced a new consent mode for Google tags. It allows you to build a mechanism where Google’s tags parse, react, and respond to the consent status of your store visitors. In short, consent mode is a feature, which lets you determine whether or not Google’s advertising tags (Ads and Floodlight) and analytics tags (Universal Analytics, App + Web) can utilize browser storage when sending pings to Google’s servers. GFew readersCookie Consent event in dataLayer
The dataLayer is an object used by Google Tag Manager and gtag.js to pass information to tags. Events or variables can be passed via the data layer, and triggers can be set up based on the values of variables. Our application is pushing a custom event to dataLayer in order to be used by other apps or services and take information about the user's consent. The event name that is pushed is called: PandectesConsentUpdate The categories mapping is the following: C0000: Strictly necFew readersWhat data is gathered by Google consent mode, and what is it used for?
The following 'pings' are sent for non-consented users: Consent status pings: (Google Ads and Floodlight tags): These pings allow the current level of consent to be sent to Google with a status granted or denied. Conversion pings: These pings are to record a conversion for floodlight tags. Google Analytics pings: Basic page and event data is sent to Google for future modelling. Here's a summary as described by Google as to what information can be included in pings: TimestFew readers
Analytics Applications
Pandectes GDPR Compliance & Elevar Tag Management Suite
The following article is targeted at Shopify merchants that are using the Pandectes GDPR Compliance app to run their cookie banner and that also use or want to use Elevar Tagging and Tracking Management. Elevar will make sure that all the tags of your Google Tag Manager container have been properly configured to fire only after the visitors of your store have consented and given the right permissions. Here’s how to configure the cookie banner in the Pandectes GDPRFew readersPandectes GDPR Compliance & Analyzify
Analyzify offers a data analytics setup that uses Google’s Consent Mode on the Google Tag Manager container presented specifically to each user. All the tags are triggered according to the user’s consent which is provided by our Pandectes GDPR Compliance application. To make it work you will first need to follow our instructions on how to install our app. Then you will need to upgrade to any paid plan and be able to have accessFew readers
Global Privacy Control
Global Privacy Control - GPC
Pandectes GDPR Compliance is capable of respecting consent preferences that are communicated using a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. What is Global Privacy Control? Global Privacy Control (GPC) is a proposed specification designed to allow Internet users to automatically notify businesses of their privacy preferences and is configured using a setting or extension in the user’s browser or device. The GPC specification defines the format ofFew readersHow Global Privacy Control (GPC) works
Who supports the GPC Signal The GPC was crafted by a collaborative group consisting of publishers, tech firms, browser and extension creators, and civil rights organizations. The project is spearheaded by Ashkan Soltani from Georgetown Law and Sebastian Zimmeck from Wesleyan University. While the standard is still in the works, it's already backed by major browsers and extensions like Abine, BravFew readers