This help page provides Adobe Analytics customers with the ability to provide their users with opt-out links. If you are not an Adobe Analytics customer, see Adobe Privacy Choices to control how Adobe uses your information.
Adobe recommends using the opt-in service, especially for organizations concerned with GDPR regulations. See Opt-in service overview in the Experience Cloud Identity Service user guide.
Some visitors to your website prefer not to have their browsing information included in your data set. Adobe offers the ability to provide visitors to your website a means to opt out of their information being collected. All implementation types are accommodated; your organization is responsible for your own privacy policy and for remaining in compliance with your signed terms.
When a visitor reaches an opt-out URL, they are prompted to install an opt-out cookie. If a user chooses not to be tracked and an opt-out cookie is set, your JavaScript file continues to send data to Adobe servers. However, that data is not processed or included in reports.
Adobe also offers privacy settings on a per-report suite basis. See Privacy Settings in the Admin user guide.
The opt-out page for your organization depends on the trackingServer
variable value in your implementation.
In the Analytics extension:
In a JavaScript implementation:
trackingServer
variable value.Using the Adobe Experience Cloud Debugger:
Once you have found your implementation’s trackingServer
domain, append the path /optout.html
to the end. For example:
https://example.data.adobedc.net/optout.html
https://stats.example.com/optout.html
There are settings that you can automatically load onto this page by using query strings.
Automatically switch the language of the opt-out page by including the locale
query string parameter. Assign this query string parameter one of the following values:
For example, https://example.data.adobedc.net/optout.html?locale=ko_KR
loads the opt-out page in Korean.
The en_US
query string value is not required, as the page loads in English by default.
Adds a ‘Close Window’ button to the page, allowing the potential to make the opt-out page a popup window. Use the popup
query string parameter, and give it a value of 1
.
For example, https://example.data.adobedc.net/optout.html?popup=1
loads the opt-out page with a ‘Close Window’ button.
Historically this query string parameter forced a popup window. However, most modern browsers give control around popups to the end user.
Allows the user to immediately opt out of tracking. Add the two query string parameters opt_out
and confirm_change
, giving each a value of 1
.
For example, https://example.data.adobedc.net/optout.html?opt_out=1&confirm_change=1
immediately installs the opt-out cookie on the visitor’s page.
Allows the user to immediately opt back in to tracking by deleting the opt-out cookie. Add the two query string parameters opt_in
and confirm_change
, giving each a value of 1
.
For example, https://example.data.adobedc.net/optout.html?opt_in=1&confirm_change=1
immediately deletes the opt-out cookie for the visitor.