How does it work?
your presettings
Why should you download Consenter?
FAQ
Our consent agent is a free extension that you install in your browser. You can pre-set your consent settings (I agree, I do not agree) for different purposes that websites would collect your data for. The moment you visit a website, your consent agent automatically sends your pre-settings to the website. This means that you don’t have to click on any consent banner anymore.
You may adjust your preferences to the website you visit via our handover notice. This small, easy-to-use substitute for banners shows up at the bottom left of the website. It disappears after a few seconds if you don’t click on it. Through this mechanism, the handover notice doesn’t interfere with your user experience of the website. In the dashboard of your consent agent, you can keep track of all consent given and change any settings afterward.
Our consent agent helps you understand your consent. We explain the benefits and risks for you personally. This explanation comes from discussions with many international data protection experts. It includes these key elements:
First, we explain clearly what each website and service provider wants to do with your data. We use simple language and easy designs to help you understand. These purposes are typically:
– Improve the website that you’re visiting.
– Enable more website features (for example, map services and videos).
– Customise the website to your interests.
– Personalise advertising.
You can consent to each purpose separately, and each has its own benefits and risks. Your consent to improve the website helps enhance your user experience. This benefit comes with a low risk. The website may track your behaviour, giving it insights into your private life. This risk is low because your usage data is used only for statistics, along with data from many other users. The website provider doesn’t know your specific actions. It only sees what all users do on average. These benefits and risks are the next most important parts of our intuitive designs.
It’s important to note that we don’t assign the classification of risks and benefits lightly. Rather, the categorisation is based on empirical research, together with data protection experts. We first did thorough research to find out the risks consumers see in data processing. In a second step, we worked with data protection experts to assign these risk categories to different purposes. Finally, we compared these risks with their benefits. In this way, we ensure that no risks are concealed or overlooked, but also that they are not exaggerated.
We provide a clear visual. It shows the purposes, benefits, risks and all needed legal info. To this aim, we make different prototypes and test them with user feedback. We mainly use qualitative tests for our prototypes. Qualitative user tests provide great insights into how users interact with our designs. They also help us understand why the designs do not yet work the way we would like them to. But such results are not yet statistically representative of the entire population. That's why we finally carry out quantitative A/B tests. Such A/B tests enable us to compare our different prototypes and find out which is the most effective on a larger user base. The most effective design is the so-called State of the Art. We use it as our new standard. All website and service providers must now follow this design as required by law (see Art. 25 sect. 1 GDPR). We regularly develop and test our prototypes. This helps us publish better designs more often. In this way, we can constantly raise the level of good consent designs.
We use these designs to explain the benefits and risks of how website or service providers process your data. Based on this, we hope you are able to make the best decision for yourself.
The consent agent will initially be available for the Chrome browser. Other browsers, such as Safari and Firefox, will follow in a second step
Our consent agent for consumers will be available free of charge.
We hope to be able to finance our consent agent by selling, at cost price, consent banners to service providers, enabling us to continuously improve and develop our consent agent for an increasing number of services and contexts.
Two components of our solution have been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the form of a so-called demonstrator. A demonstrator is at level 7 on the technology readiness level scale and is used to show that the solution works in a real environment. On completion of the respective project, we will then develop the demonstrator into a so-called pilot series and finally into the final product and launch it on the market.
We develop our demonstrators on the basis of interdisciplinary research concepts, methods and results that we have developed over the last 10 years at various research institutes, with public funding in the form of public-private partnerships.
We use Amazon Web Services, specifically S3 (for storing assets). AFAIK they will collect IP, the date and time and request details (e.g what image was fetched).
Our consent agent works on all websites, but currently under the following conditions:We can guarantee full functionality on websites that embed our consent banner. This means that the consent agent can pass on all presettings of our consent agent users to the website, whether these are consents to be given, denied or revoked.
On websites that do not integrate our consent banner, but those of third parties, we cannot currently ensure that the website takes into account the preferences from the consent agent. In favour of the user experience of our consent agent users, we block such third-party consent banners. In this case, websites cannot obtain the consent of our consent agent users.
In some cases, websites with third party consent banners that do not respect our users' preferences try to prevent our consent agent from blocking them. We are constantly working with our community to persuade such websites to respect our users' preferences and, of course, to improve our blocking mechanism.
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