GDPR Compliance & Opt-Out for Personyze Tracking

Personyze tracking can be programmatically turned off, on, or queried per visitor — useful for GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy frameworks where users must consent (or actively opt out) before behavioral data is collected.

When to use this

• Cookie consent banners — call off() by default, then on() only after the user accepts non-essential / analytics cookies.
• Privacy preference centers — let visitors toggle Personyze tracking from a settings page.
• Region-specific compliance — disable tracking for visitors in jurisdictions where consent hasn’t been collected yet.

JavaScript API

Opt out (turn tracking off)

_S_T.system.off()

After this call, no further events are sent to Personyze for the current session. The opt-out state is persisted in a cookie so it survives page navigation.

Opt in (turn tracking on)

_S_T.system.on()

Re-enables event collection. Use this when a visitor grants consent through your cookie banner or preference center.

Check current state

_S_T.system.is_on()  // returns true | false

Useful when conditionally rendering UI (“You are currently opted out — click to re-enable”) or in audit logs.

Common implementation pattern

A typical cookie-consent integration looks like this:

// On page load — opt out by default until consent is given
if (!localStorage.getItem('analytics_consent')) {
  _S_T.system.off();
}

// When the user accepts the consent banner
function onConsentGranted() {
  localStorage.setItem('analytics_consent', 'granted');
  _S_T.system.on();
}

// When the user rejects or revokes consent
function onConsentRevoked() {
  localStorage.setItem('analytics_consent', 'revoked');
  _S_T.system.off();
}

Generated opt-out code

The Personyze admin includes a Privacy & GDPR section under Domain Settings that generates a copy-paste-ready opt-out snippet styled for embedding directly in your privacy policy page. The generated code typically wires up a button that calls _S_T.system.off() and shows the current state via _S_T.system.is_on().

Verifying opt-out is working

1. Open your site in a private/incognito window with the dev tools network tab open.
2. Filter the requests by counter.personyze.com.
3. Trigger the opt-out (call _S_T.system.off() from the console, or click your privacy banner).
4. Navigate to a new page on your site. You should see no further requests to counter.personyze.com.
5. Run _S_T.system.is_on() in the console — should return false.