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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation which strengthens and unifies data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU).
If you take steps to ensure no personal data is collected in Matomo, then you may not be concerned by the GDPR for Matomo (if you track no IP addresses, no user IDs, no geolocation data, etc.).
If you are processing personal data of European citizens through Matomo, even if your company is located outside Europe, you need to fulfill GDPR obligations and this guide will help you.
Find below our tools that let you exercise your users’ rights easily, and the list of actions to take in order to make your use of Matomo compliant with the GDPR and safeguard your data. Visit our GDPR User guide to learn even more.
Exercise the rights of your users with our GDPR-friendly procedures:
Inform your users clearly and transparently, and make your colleagues aware of the data being collected and how it is used:
Inform your users clearly and transparently, and make your colleagues aware of the data being collected and how it is used:
Data retention for data stored in Matomo:
The overall data retention rate for your privacy policy is the raw data retention rate. Please note that aggregated reports may contain personal data as well. If you are using features like User ID, Custom Variables, Custom Dimension, or track personal data in other ways such as events, page URLs or page titles, etc, then the overall data retention rate for your privacy policy is the higher of the two.