👉 Managing visitor consent

📖 Definition

Depending on the different privacy rules of each country (ie: GDPR and CNIL), you may have a legal obligation to ask your visitors for their explicit consent before tracking them and collecting their personal information.

A variable displayed in your SDK enables you to manage data collection, depending on whether a visitor accepts to be tracked or not.

Accepting to be tracked (data collection consent) generally means accepting a website’s cookies (often in the form of a banner).

⚙️ Configuration

Data collection can be managed via a parameter, directly in the SDK code of your Flagship implementation.

⭐ Good to know

The visitor consent parameter is available for the following SDKs: 

• Android
• iOS
• Java 
• Flutter

Variable set to true

By default, the .withVisitorConsent variable is set to true, meaning that you will be able to collect visitor data. Don’t forget to change that default behavior if the visitor does not consent to data collection.
Here is an example with the Android SDK:

Variable set to false

You can change this parameter to false to block the data collection when a visitor has not given their consent. In this case, a hit will be triggered to specify that this visitor didn’t consent to data collection.

Flagship will still be able to send data but won’t receive any from the visitor.

When setting the variable to false, you won’t be able to know if the visitor has been assigned to a flag and you won’t see the results of their actions on the website or application (if any).This parameter only impacts data collection, but has no effect on use cases display. Even if your variable is set to false, your visitors will still see the use cases they’re affected to. 

To know the implementation methods according to your stack, please refer to our technical documentation.

⭐ Good to know

This option isn’t retroactive. If you have collected data before the variable was set to false, it won’t be deleted. However, new data won’t be collected. 

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