Recent laws like the European GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, California’s CCPA and the upcoming ePrivacy Regulations nudged browsers to join the cause of protecting user privacy. With Safari ITP and Firefox ETP leading the efforts, and Google recently joining, internet giants are hard at work to come up with...
Conversion-Centered Design (CCD) aims to convert site visitors to customers by focusing on user experience (UX). The connection between CRO and UX was not always clearly established. It was previously thought that CRO and UX were competing goals that could not be reconciled. This idea no longer applies because...
The GDPR is done. And it impacted only the businesses operating in the EU anyway. Right? Not really. Privacy is never “done”. Compliance is an ever-present requirement and businesses should constantly monitor their touchpoints, their data collection practices, their data processing logic and the same set of considerations for...
Google Analytics is a staple for most optimizers and marketers. The ubiquity of this solution makes it innocuous to the point where we tend to overlook the settings of our Google Analytics account when privacy regulations roll out. But the GDPR was a substantial nudge for testers to scrutinize...
The General Data Protection Regulation is closely associated with the EU legislation which protects the privacy of communication in the electronic form or e-privacy. A research conducted by the European Data Protection Board discovered that GDPR and e-privacy have common comprehensive rules that protect data. The research referred to...
On May 29, 2019, Nevada Governor signed into law SB 220. This law amends Nevada’s existing security and privacy law to require an operator of a website or online service for commercial purposes to permit consumers to opt-out of the sale of any covered personally identifiable information that the...
Just as marketers learn to survive in a post-GDPR world, the deadline for the ePrivacy Regulation — the successor to the ePrivacy Directive (also known as “The Cookie Law”) — inches closer. Stated for a release in 2019, the impending ePrivacy Regulation, like the GDPR, is applicable to any...
We have been improving outcomes for a decade now. And with over 30 billion experiences tested, we’ve perfected a tool that drives improved conversions for customers from all possible industries – without hassles. But when the GDPR tidal wave hit, we wanted to go beyond improving outcomes. We wanted...
Right now, most of our customers run experiments on their websites without giving their visitors much notice. Under GDPR: this should change. This article details how—using Convert Experiences as an example. Warning: Not All A/B Testing Tools are Equal At Convert—we altered our software to take privacy by design...
I was not around when the GDPR frenzy peaked. But I have heard stories – hilarious and stressful – of the scramble to put together re-permissioning drives which would not make our customers tear their hair out, and the long sprints of revamps on our app to incorporate the...
Article 6 of the GDPR allows you to process your users’ personal data under six lawful bases including Consent and Legitimate Interests: GDPR Article 6(1)(a) – Consent as a lawful basis for processing data: The data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data...
There are two key questions growth marketers and optimizers ask over and over again. What. Why. The former is generally answered by analytics suites like Google Analytics which tell you exactly what visitors are doing on the site, where they are dropping off and in what numbers. Why –...
