Integration: Privacy

Overview

This document will provide overview of available integration touchpoints for respecting the privacy of users. European Union law and many national regulations require opt-out availability for preventing the tracking of user information and behavior. 

General Data Protection Regulation

This is designed for the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and specifically the user's right to be forgotten. For more information, see: https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html

Privacy Touchpoints:

1. The Profile Command API allows an organization to Opt Out on behalf their users.
2. The Privacy Servlet can be integrated to allow a user to Opt Out directly. This is only available for organizations that integrate RichRelevance through client-side javascript.
3. And each individual request to Recommend and Engage can be anonymized by enabling private mode on the request.

• For client-side javascript integrations:

R3_COMMON.setPrivateMode();

• For server side recsForPlacement calls, add a query string parameter

privm=t

Using private mode has the same impact as not passing the user ID on the request.

Notes

An anonymous user (no user ID or in private mode) will still get personalization based upon the session ID that is passed. So over the course of a session, the Recommend and Engage responses will use the context of the session to add personalization. But when a user id is passed that has opted out, no personalization will take place.