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Using cookie banners in compliance with data protection regulations is one of the biggest challenges for website operators. If cookie banners are to be designed in accordance with the GDPR, website users must be able to consent to the processing of personal data or reject it using the cookie banners. But what do you have…

Data protection has always been a hot topic in the business world, but GDPR, cookies and other topics have been mandatory reading for entrepreneurs since May 25th, 2018. Regardless of whether you operate e-commerce, offer a blog or even a complete platform is your product – ruinous penalties are threatened if data is not handled…

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Legally secure measures and cookie consent Matomo (formerly Piwik) is an open source project. As an alternative to Google Analytics, Matomo offers website analysis tools that are used to record the activities of your visitors. Matomo uses cookies of various types for this purpose. In order to make Matomo GDPR compliant, a Matomo Cookie Consent…