Policies & User Consent
Managing privacy policies and user consent settings
19 articles
19 Policies & User Consent Articles
Extra Consents Settings: Managing Cookie Consent Overage in Your Secure Privacy Plan
When your Secure Privacy subscription hits its consent limit, recording can silently stop — leaving compliance gaps before you notice. Learn how to configure an extra consents budget to keep consent data flowing without automatically upgrading your entire plan.
Self-Service Privacy Rights Portal: Submit GDPR & CCPA Data Requests and Link from Your Cookie Banner
Visitors need somewhere clear to submit GDPR deletion requests, CCPA opt-outs, and other data subject rights — not a buried compliance email. Secure Privacy's Self-Service Privacy Rights Portal gives every website a branded, multi-language DSAR hub, and this guide shows how to surface it from your cookie banner or privacy policy in under five minutes.
How to Handle a DSAR Under GDPR Article 15 – Data Subject Access Request Compliance Process
When your organization receives a Data Subject Access Request under GDPR Article 15, you must verify the requester's identity, map all relevant personal data across systems and processors, prepare a compliant response within one month, and maintain a full audit trail. This guide covers every stage of the DSAR process — from initial acknowledgement through to secure delivery and record-keeping — with guidance on using Secure Privacy's DSAR tools to automate key workflow steps.
Global Privacy Control (GPC) in Secure Privacy – Automatic Browser Privacy Signal Detection and Cookie Restriction
Secure Privacy automatically detects Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals from visitor browsers and restricts cookies to essential-only in response — no setup required. This guide explains what GPC is, how it integrates with Secure Privacy's cookie banner, how to verify it is working using the GPC Inspector, and what it means for CCPA compliance.
Google EU User Consent Policy: How to Comply with GDPR Requirements for EEA & UK Users
Learn what Google's EU User Consent Policy requires, who it applies to, and how to achieve compliance — including implementing a Google-certified CMP, enabling Google Consent Mode, and updating your privacy disclosures for EEA and UK users.
How to Insert and Customize Tables in the Secure Privacy Policy Editor
The Secure Privacy Policy Editor now supports tables — allowing you to present cookie categories, data handling practices, and retention schedules in a structured, easy-to-read format. This guide explains how to insert a table using the toolbar, select row and column count, and edit table structure using the right-click context menu.
Secure Privacy Laws Page Explained – Visitor Statistics by Privacy Regulation (GDPR, LGPD, PIPEDA, THPDPA)
The Secure Privacy Laws page shows a breakdown of your website's visitor traffic by applicable privacy regulation — including GDPR (EU), LGPD (Brazil), PIPEDA (Canada), THPDPA (Thailand), and Other regions. This guide explains each metric and how to use the data to prioritize which compliance modules to activate in your Secure Privacy account.
What Is the Global Privacy Platform (GPP)? How to Enable IAB GPP in Secure Privacy for Multi-Jurisdiction Consent
The IAB Global Privacy Platform (GPP) unifies consent signals from GDPR TCF v2.2, CCPA/CPRA, and US state privacy laws into a single standardized GPP String. This guide explains how GPP works, which jurisdictions it covers, and how to enable IAB GPP in Secure Privacy — including TCF vendor selection and US Privacy string configuration for California, Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and Connecticut.
How to Manage Privacy and Cookie Policies in Secure Privacy – Generate, Edit, Translate, and Publish Your Policy
Secure Privacy's Policies section provides a centralized dashboard for generating legally compliant privacy and cookie policies — using a four-step guided wizard, a block-based editor for fine-tuning content, domain assignment, and multilingual translation management. This guide covers every step from policy creation through to editing and publishing.
Secure Privacy: Google-Certified Consent Management Platform (CMP) – Google Consent Mode Integration Guide
Secure Privacy is a Google-certified Consent Management Platform (CMP) — meeting Google's strict standards for consent signal accuracy and full integration with Google Tag Manager and Google Consent Mode. This guide explains what Google CMP certification means, how Secure Privacy passes consent choices to Google tags, and the compliance and analytics benefits for GDPR-compliant websites.
Secure Privacy Consent Dashboard Guide – View, Filter, and Export Consent Records for GDPR Compliance
The Secure Privacy Consent Dashboard provides a complete view of visitor consent activity — showing accepted, declined, and partial consent totals, per-category consent breakdowns, location and device details, and a CSV export function for compliance audits. This guide explains every dashboard feature and how to use it for GDPR accountability and consent analysis.
How to Embed Privacy Policies on Your Website Using Secure Privacy – Dashboard and Individual Policy Embed Guide
Secure Privacy offers two methods for embedding privacy policies on your website — embedding all policies at once from the Policies dashboard, or embedding individual policies on specific pages. This guide explains both methods, including how to select a default language and where to paste the embed code in your page HTML.
How to Change the Data Retention Period for a Legal Template in Secure Privacy
Learn how to configure the data retention period for any legal template in Secure Privacy — including GDPR, CCPA, and other jurisdiction-specific templates — with default values listed for all 50+ supported laws.
How to Create a Privacy Policy in Secure Privacy – Generator Fields, Options, and GDPR Requirements Explained
Secure Privacy's Privacy Policy generator lets you create a comprehensive, GDPR-compliant privacy policy by completing a structured questionnaire covering legal basis, entity type, personal data categories, third-party processors, security measures, DPO details, and more. This guide explains every generator field and both policy options — linking an existing policy or generating a new one.
Secure Privacy Laws Report Updates – Improved Data Mapping, Visitor Tracking, Geolocation Detection, and UI Fixes
Secure Privacy's Laws Report has been updated with region-based data mapping for cleaner visualizations, expanded visitor tracking alongside consent data, improved geolocation detection for accurate regional classification, and UI fixes including fallback icons for unmapped regions and corrected icon mapping for newly created templates.
Website Visits vs Page Views vs Consent Explained – Web Analytics and GDPR Compliance Glossary
Website visits measure session-level engagement, page views count individual page loads, and user consent determines whether any of that data can legally be collected and processed. This guide explains each concept clearly and why Secure Privacy treats consent as the essential prerequisite for compliant, ethical data collection under GDPR and CCPA.
How to Set Up and Customize DSAR Forms in Secure Privacy – Step-by-Step Data Subject Access Request Guide
Secure Privacy's DSAR form setup lets you enable a GDPR-compliant Data Request Form within your compliance template, configure DPO notification email, require email verification for submitters, and customize all form field labels and request type headings. This guide covers every step from enabling the form through to previewing and publishing.
IAB Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) Explained – GDPR Compliance Risks and Secure Privacy's Alternative Approach
The IAB Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) standardizes consent signaling across publishers, advertisers, and CMPs — but its vendor-centric design, complex UI requirements, and ongoing DPA enforcement actions raise real GDPR compliance questions. This guide explains how IAB TCF works, what its requirements mean in practice, and how Secure Privacy's Google Consent Mode Advanced approach provides a more user-friendly, compliance-focused alternative.
What Is a Cookie Banner? GDPR Requirements, Consent Management, and How Secure Privacy CMP Automates Compliance
A cookie banner informs website visitors that cookies are used and requests their consent before non-essential data is collected. Under GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, compliant consent banners are mandatory for EU visitors. This guide explains GDPR cookie banner requirements, granular consent obligations, and how Secure Privacy's Consent Management Platform automates cookie blocking, consent recording, and audit log management.