Questions about 4Analytics
Is 4Analytics private out of the box?
Yes. 4Analytics uses technologies that makes it compliant out of the box with current legislations such as GDPR or CCPA.
One major factor in achieving this is that 4Analytics does not use cookies or record visitor personal information. You can read a clear description of how 4Analytics operates in our 4Analytics Technology documentation page.
Be aware that some existing Joomla analytics extension do use the Joomla built-in session cookie to track users. These extensions are NOT GDPR compliant because using cookies for tracking is not permitted without user consent, regardless if the cookies in question are created by the extension, Joomla or anything else.
Should I have a cookie-consent banner extension when using 4Analytics?
No. 4Analytics is private out of the box and does not require using such extension on your site.
You can read our full privacy statement on this documentation page, including a legal analysis from a blog post from the Plausible analytics service, which we believe applies to 4Analytics as it uses the same technology (well, not exactly: 4Analytics is even more private as data is stored on your own server, not on a 3rd-party company servers).
What are the other legal requirements when using 4Analytics?
While you are measuring visitors traffic, but in a way that respects privacy, you are not required - by GDPR at least, to have a Privacy Policy just because you are using 4Analytics.
Most websites however are likely to need a privacy policy due to other things they do, such as allowing users to create accounts, or even just having a contact form. Even if you don't, it's always a good thing to have one to favor transparency for your visitors.
If you have a privacy policy, here is a sample text you can include to inform about the use of 4Analytics:
We use an analytics tool to help us understand how you use our website, and to evaluate changes and improvements we can make to the site. This analytics data is stored on our own server, and we do not collect any personal or individual information, nor do we store any tracking information on your device (ie: we do not use tracking cookies).
You must adjust this sample text according to what your website does outside of 4Analytics, and your particular legal environment. This sample is just that, a sample, and only relates to the use of 4Analytics itself. And of course, We Are Not Lawyers, so this is not legal advice but just our best effort here.
In which languages is 4Analytics available?
- Arabic
- Chinese
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
All language files are included in each release, there is no need to download any additional file.