@ht-sdks/consent-manager
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Drop-in consent management plugin for Hightouch Events Browser SDK
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Hightouch Consent Manager
Drop-in consent management plugin for @ht-sdks/events-sdk-js-browser
[!NOTE] You must install
@ht-sdks/events-sdk-js-browser
via snippet in order for Consent Manager to work. It will not work if you use an NPM import.
At its core, the Consent Manager empowers your visitors to control and customize their tracking preferences on a website. They can opt out entirely of being tracked, or selectively opt out of tools in which they don’t want their information stored.
Hightouch works to ensure Consent Manager works with most of our product pipeline. We cannot ensure it works in your specific implementation or website. Please contact our team for implementation support.
Features
- Give users the ability to opt-in or opt-out to tracking.
- Fine grained control of tools or categories used for tracking.
- 30s setup with a drop in script tag.
- Or fully customizable UI/UX through React components.
- EU traffic detection through @segment/in-eu.
- Ability for visitors to reconsent and change preferences.
- Automatically updates to reflect the destinations you have enabled in Hightouch.
- Consent Manager will add consent metadata to the context of all track calls:
How it works
The consent manager delays loading the events SDK until user consent is given, and will not load the SDK at all if the user opts out of everything. The user's tracking preferences are saved to a cookie and sent as a
Consent Updated
track event (if they haven't opted out of everything), ensuring consent data is propagated to your destinations.All events will include the latest consent metadata inside the
context.consent
object:{ "event": "Created Account", "context": { "consent": { "defaultDestinationBehavior": "disable", "destinationPreferences": {}, "categoryPreferences": { "marketingAndAnalytics": false, "advertising": true, "functional": false } } } }
Whenever a user updates their consent preferences, the following event will be emitted
track
namedConsent Updated
with updated preferences{ "type": "track", "event": "Consent Updated", "properties": { "destinationPreferences": {}, "categoryPreferences": { "marketingAndAnalytics": true, "advertising": true, "functional": true } } }
Install
The Hightouch Consent Manager can be used in several ways, depending on how custom you want your visitor's experience to be.
[!IMPORTANT] Ensure you're using the latest version of the Hightouch Events Browser SDK snippet and remove the
e.load("WRITE_KEY")
call from the snippet so consent manager can manage the loading process.
Standalone Script
The standalone script is a prebuilt bundle that uses the ConsentManager React component with Preact (a lightweight React alternative). It's best if you want to get up and running quickly or you don't have a preexisting React setup.
Include the consent manager script tag after the Browser SDK snippet and add your own custom copy. The standalone script is configured via a global callback function.
<!-- Consent Manager element -->
<div id="consent-manager"></div>
<!-- Browser SDK snippet -->
<script type="text/javascript">
!function(){var e=window.htevents=window.htevents||[];if(!e.initialize)if(e.invoked)window.console&&console.error&&console.error("Hightouch snippet included twice.");else{e.invoked=!0,e.methods=["trackSubmit","trackClick","trackLink","trackForm","pageview","identify","reset","group","track","ready","alias","debug","page","once","off","on","addSourceMiddleware","addIntegrationMiddleware","setAnonymousId","addDestinationMiddleware"],e.factory=function(t){return function(){var n=Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);return n.unshift(t),e.push(n),e}};for(var t=0;t<e.methods.length;t++){var n=e.methods[t];e[n]=e.factory(n)}e.load=function(t,n){var o=document.createElement("script");o.type="text/javascript",o.async=!0,o.src="https://cdn.hightouch-events.com/browser/release/v1-latest/events.min.js";var r=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];r.parentNode.insertBefore(o,r),e._loadOptions=n,e._writeKey=t},e.SNIPPET_VERSION="0.0.1",
e.page()}}();
</script>
<!-- Consent Manager configuration -->
<script>
window.consentManagerConfig = function(exports) {
return {
container: '#consent-manager',
writeKey: 'WRITE_KEY',
shouldRequireConsent: exports.inEU // optional: require consent only for EU users
}
}
</script>
<!-- Consent Manager JS -->
<script
src="https://unpkg.com/@ht-sdks/[email protected]/standalone/consent-manager.js"
defer
></script>
Options
All of the ConsentManager options are supported with the addition of these options:
container
Type: string
CSS selector to the DOM element that will host the consent banner. It should be an empty DOM element (usually a <div>
) because the consent manager will replace any existing DOM elements inside it. The element must also exist on the page before the script is executed.
You can also control the positioning of the consent banner by applying styles to the container element (optional). E.g:
#target-container {
position: fixed;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
z-index: 100;
}
<div id="target-container"></div>
Globals
The following global variables are also exposed:
consentManager.version
- Version of the consent manager.consentManager.openConsentManager()
- Opens the consent manager preferences dialog.consentManager.doNotTrack()
- Utility function that returns the user's Do Not Track preference (normalises the cross browser API differences). Returnstrue
,false
ornull
(no preference specified).consentManager.inEU()
- The @segment/in-euinEU()
function.consentManager.preferences
- Returns an instance ofPreferencesManager
with the following helper functions:loadPreferences
- returns the cookie value for consent preferencessavePreferences
- allows for managing the consent cookie programatically (useful if you want to re-hydrate consent from your own database or prefill consent options)onPreferencesSaved(callback)
- allows for subscribing to changes in preferences.
Callback Function
All the options are supported. The callback function also receives these exports:
React
- Reference to the Preact library (the API is React compatible). Useful for if you need to use virtual DOM in your content.version
- Version of the consent manager.openConsentManager()
- Opens the consent manager preferences dialog.doNotTrack()
- Utility function that returns the user's Do Not Track preference (normalises the cross browser API differences). Returnstrue
,false
ornull
(no preference specified).inEU()
- The @segment/in-euinEU()
function.consentManager.preferences
- Returns an instance ofPreferencesManager
with the following helper functions:loadPreferences
- returns the cookie value for consent preferencessavePreferences
- allows for managing the consent cookie programatically (useful if you want to re-hydrate consent from your own database or prefill consent options)onPreferencesSaved(callback)
- allows for subscribing to changes in preferences.
<script>
window.consentManagerConfig = function(exports) {
var React = exports.React
// optional: customize the banner for your brand
var bannerContent = React.createElement(
'span',
null,
'We use cookies (and other similar technologies) to collect data to improve your experience on our site. By using our website, you՚re agreeing to the collection of data as described in our',
' ',
React.createElement(
'a',
{ href: '/docs/legal/website-data-collection-policy/', target: '_blank' },
'Website Data Collection Policy'
),
'.'
)
return {
container: '#target-container',
writeKey: 'WRITE_KEY',
bannerContent: bannerContent
}
}
</script>
<script
src="https://unpkg.com/@ht-sdks/[email protected]/standalone/consent-manager.js"
defer
></script>
ConsentManager
The ConsentManager
React component is a prebuilt consent manager UI that uses the ConsentManagerBuilder
component under the hood. To use it, just mount the component where you want the consent banner to appear and pass in your own custom copy.
Note: Consent Manager is React-based so is not currently compatible with other frameworks such as Vue.js or Angular. In case you want to use it in another framework that is not React, you should use the Standalone implementation.
Install
Using npm:
npm install @ht-sdks/consent-manager
Using yarn:
yarn add @ht-sdks/consent-manager
Example
import React from 'react'
import { ConsentManager, openConsentManager } from '@ht-sdks/consent-manager'
import inEU from '@segment/in-eu'
export default function() {
return (
<div>
<ConsentManager
writeKey="WRITE_KEY"
shouldRequireConsent={inEU} // optional: require consent only from EU users
/>
<button type="button" onClick={openConsentManager}>
Website Data Collection Preferences
</button>
</div>
)
}
Example in Next.js
In Next.js we do not have an HTML file to inject the Browser SDK snippet. Here we will use the Script component to inject the snippet provided by Hightouch. Again, note that the e.load(WRITE_KEY)
call was removed from the snippet since ConsentManager
will invoke that for us.
import React from 'react'
import Script from 'next/script'
import { ConsentManager, openConsentManager } from '@ht-sdks/consent-manager'
export default function Home() {
return (
<div>
<Script
id="events-sdk-js-browser"
dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
__html: `
!function(){var e=window.htevents=window.htevents||[];if(!e.initialize)if(e.invoked)window.console&&console.error&&console.error("Hightouch snippet included twice.");else{e.invoked=!0,e.methods=["trackSubmit","trackClick","trackLink","trackForm","pageview","identify","reset","group","track","ready","alias","debug","page","once","off","on","addSourceMiddleware","addIntegrationMiddleware","setAnonymousId","addDestinationMiddleware"],e.factory=function(t){return function(){var n=Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);return n.unshift(t),e.push(n),e}};for(var t=0;t<e.methods.length;t++){var n=e.methods[t];e[n]=e.factory(n)}e.load=function(t,n){var o=document.createElement("script");o.type="text/javascript",o.async=!0,o.src="https://cdn.hightouch-events.com/browser/release/v1-latest/events.min.js";var r=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];r.parentNode.insertBefore(o,r),e._loadOptions=n,e._writeKey=t},e.SNIPPET_VERSION="0.0.1",
e.page()}}();
`
}}
/>
<main>
<ConsentManager writeKey="WRITE_KEY" />
<button type="button" onClick={openConsentManager}>
Website Data Collection Preferences
</button>
</main>
</div>
)
}
ConsentManager Props
This section lists the configurable props you can change when loading the out of the box Consent Manager. In this demo, these are all the props you can pass into the returned preferences object.
- writeKey
- shouldRequireConsent
- initialPreferences
- closeBehavior
- implyConsentOnInteraction
- defaultDestinationBehavior
- cookieDomain
- bannerContent
- bannerSubContent
- bannerTextColor
- bannerBackgroundColor
- bannerActionsBlock
- bannerHideCloseButton
- bannerAsModal
- preferencesDialogTitle
- preferencesDialogContent
- cancelDialogTitle
- cancelDialogContent
- customCategories
- preferencesDialogTemplate
writeKey
Type: string
Default: none
The write key events.js should be loaded with.
shouldRequireConsent
Type: function
Default: () => true
Callback function that determines if consent is required before tracking begins. Set to true
to show the consent banner, otherwise return false
to not show consent banner and start tracking immediately.
The function can return a Promise
that resolves to a boolean.
initialPreferences
Type: object Default: {}
Object that opts into users into tracking for the different tracking categories. For example {‘Functional’:true}
closeBehavior
Type: string
or function
Default: dismiss
This option sets the default behavior for the x (close) button on the Consent Manager banner. Available options:
- “dismiss” - dismisses the banner, but doesn't save or change any preferences. Events Browser SDK won’t load until consent is given.
- “accept”- assume consent across every category.
- ”deny” - denies consent across every category.
closeBehavior
can also be customized - i.e. don't load some categories, but load everything else. For example, if you wanted to load everything except advertising, you could pass the following as closeBehavior
:
closeBehavior={
(categories) => ({
...categories,
advertising: false
})
}
implyConsentOnInteraction
Type: boolean
Default: false
Determines whether or not consent should be implied if the user interacts with the website by clicking anywhere outside the Consent Manager banner.
defaultDestinationBehavior
Type: string
Default: disable
Determines what the Consent Manager does if the user has already made consent selections and it detects new destination tools. (This is determined by checking if the user already has a cookie set on their browser.)
This is relevant when you've added a connected a new destination to any of the sources managed by Consent Manager.
Options:
disable
(default) - When you add new destinations, they are set to “disabled” unless a user updates their consent selections by default.enable
- When you add new destinations, they are set to “enabled” unless a user updates their consent selections.imply
- When you add new destinations, they are enabled or disabled based on the category to which they belong and the user's previous consent to that category. For example, if a user already consented to themarketingAndAnalytics
category, and you add a new destination which is in theAnalytics
category, that destination will be enabled until the user updates their consent selections.ask
- When you add new destinations, the Consent Manager automatically opens the preferences dialog on initialization, and asks the user for their consent again.
cookieDomain
Type: string
Default: the top most domain and all sub domains
The domain the ht-cm-preferences
cookie should be scoped to.
bannerContent
Type: PropTypes.node
The content of the consent banner.
bannerSubContent
Type: string
The call to action under the primary text in the Consent Manager banner.
bannerActionsBlock
Type: function(object) | boolean
The flag or function to render the actions block. If true
value is passed - will render the default buttons block with Accept all
and Deny all
(required for the GDPR compliance). if the function is passed - will render the passed function into a actions block placeholder.
Function props:
acceptAll: () => void
- accept all cookies and close the bannerdenyAll: () => void
- deny all cookies and close the bannerchangePreferences: () => void
- open the dialog
bannerTextColor
Type: string
Default: #fff
The color of the consent banner text.
bannerBackgroundColor
Type: string
Default: #1f4160
The color of the consent banner background.
bannerHideCloseButton
Type: boolean
Default: false
Hide the close button of the consent banner.
bannerAsModal
Type: boolean
Default: false
Show the consent banner as a modal, blocking the interaction while it is not accepted/rejected.
preferencesDialogTitle
Type: PropTypes.node
Default: Website Data Collection Preferences
The title of the preferences dialog.
preferencesDialogContent
Type: PropTypes.node
The top descriptive content of the preferences dialog.
cancelDialogTitle
Type: PropTypes.node
Default: Are you sure you want to cancel?
The title of the cancel dialog.
cancelDialogContent
Type: PropTypes.node
The text displayed in the cancel dialog box.
customCategories
Type: PropTypes.object
Default: undefined
An object that represents custom consent categories, and which tools are included in these categories. For example, for CCPA compliance, you could create a custom “Do Not Sell” category and list relevant destinations to it.
Note: Calling the customCategories
object will overwrite the prebuilt categories (Analytics, Functional, Targeting and Advertising) provided by Consent Manager. Those categories will need to be redeclared inside customCategories
. You can find examples here and here.
const customCategories = {
'New Category': {
purpose: 'A new consent category to capture more granular consent groupings',
integrations: ['Google Adwords (Classic)', 'Amplitude', 'Slack']
}
}
preferencesDialogTemplate
Type: PropTypes.object
Default:
{
headings: {
allowValue: 'Allow',
categoryValue: 'Category',
purposeValue: 'Purpose',
toolsValue: 'Tools'
},
checkboxes: {
noValue: 'No',
yesValue: 'Yes'
},
actionButtons: {
cancelValue: 'Cancel',
saveValue: 'Save'
},
cancelDialogButtons: {
cancelValue: 'Yes, Cancel',
backValue: 'Go Back'
},
categories: [
{
key: 'functional',
name: 'Functional',
description:
'To monitor the performance of our site and to enhance your browsing experience.',
example: 'For example, these tools enable you to communicate with us via live chat.'
},
{
key: 'marketing',
name: 'Marketing and Analytics',
description:
'To understand user behavior in order to provide you with a more relevant browsing experience or personalize the content on our site.',
example:
'For example, we collect information about which pages you visit to help us present more relevant information.'
},
{
key: 'advertising',
name: 'Advertising',
description:
'To personalize and measure the effectiveness of advertising on our site and other websites.',
example:
'For example, we may serve you a personalized ad based on the pages you visit on our site.'
},
{
key: 'essential',
name: 'Essential',
description: 'We use browser cookies that are necessary for the site to work as intended.',
example:
'For example, we store your website data collection preferences so we can honor them if you return to our site. You can disable these cookies in your browser settings but if you do the site may not work as intended.'
}
]
}
An object that represents the text fields of the preferences dialog and allows customizing them. We recommend copying the default object and changing the fields as necessary.
Note: All fields are optional. If they are not included in the template (object) the default fields will be used.
Note: For categories, you need to provide the key in order to map all the values properly.
ConsentManagerBuilder
The ConsentManagerBuilder
React component is a low level render props component for building your own consent manager UI. It abstracts away all the logic for fetching destinations, checking/saving consent and loading the Events Browser SDK.
Note: ConsentManagerBuilder is React-based so is not currently compatible with other frameworks such as Vue.js or Angular. In case you want to use it in another framework that is not React, you should use the Standalone implementation.
Example
For a more detailed/advanced example, checkout the ConsentManager implementation.
import React from 'react'
import { ConsentManagerBuilder } from '@ht-sdks/consent-manager'
export default function() {
return (
<ConsentManagerBuilder writeKey="WRITE_KEY">
{({ destinations, preferences, setPreferences, saveConsent }) => (
<div>
<h2>Tracking tools</h2>
<ul>
{destinations.map(destination => (
<li key={destination.id}>
<label>
<input
type="checkbox"
checked={Boolean(preferences[destination.id])}
onChange={() =>
setPreferences({
[destination.id]: !preferences[destination.id]
})
}
/>
{destination.name}
</label>
</li>
))}
</ul>
<button type="button" onClick={() => saveConsent()}>
Save
</button>
<button type="button" onClick={() => saveConsent(true)}>
Allow all
</button>
<button type="button" onClick={() => saveConsent(false)}>
Deny all
</button>
</div>
)}
</ConsentManagerBuilder>
)
}
ConsentManagerBuilder Props
- children
- writeKey
- shouldRequireConsent
- initialPreferences
- defaultDestinationBehavior
- mapCustomPreferences
- cookieDomain
- shouldReload
- devMode
- useDefaultCategories
children
Type: function
The render props function that returns your UI.
writeKey
Type: string
The write key the Events Browser SDK should be loaded with.
shouldRequireConsent
Type: function
Default: () => true
Callback function that determines if consent is required before tracking can begin. Return true
to show the consent banner and wait for consent (if no consent has been given yet). Return false
to not show the consent banner and start tracking immediately (unless the user has opted out). The function can return a Promise
that resolves to a boolean.
initialPreferences
Type: object
Default: {}
The initial value of the preferences. By default it should be an object map of {destinationId: true|false|'N/A'}
. If you're using mapCustomPreferences it should be an object map of your custom preferences' default values.
defaultDestinationBehavior
Type: string
Default: disable
Determines what the Consent Manager does if the user has already made consent selections and it detects new destination tools. (This is determined by checking if the user already has a cookie set on their browser.)
This is relevant when you've added a connected a new destination to any of the sources managed by Consent Manager.
Options:
disable
(default) - When you add new destinations, they are set to “disabled” unless a user updates their consent selections by default.enable
- When you add new destinations, they are set to “enabled” unless a user updates their consent selections.imply
- When you add new destinations, they are enabled or disabled based on the category to which they belong and the user's previous consent to that category. For example, if a user already consented to themarketingAndAnalytics
category, and you add a new destination which is in theAnalytics
category, that destination will be enabled until the user updates their consent selections.ask
- When you add new destinations, the Consent Manager automatically opens the preferences dialog on initialization, and asks the user for their consent again.
mapCustomPreferences
Type: function
Default: undefined
Callback function allows you to use a custom preferences format (e.g: categories) instead of the default destination based one. The function gets called during the consent saving process and gets passed (destinations, preferences)
. The function should return {destinationPreferences, customPreferences}
where destinationPreferences
is your custom preferences mapped to the destinations format ({destiantionId: true|false}
) and customPreferences
is your custom preferences if you changed them in the callback (optional).
cookieDomain
Type: string
Default: the top most domain and all sub domains
The domain the ht-cm-preferences
cookie should be scoped to.
shouldReload
Type: boolean
Default: true
Reload the page if the trackers have already been initialized so that the user's new preferences can take effect.
devMode
Type: boolean
Default: false
Disable calling htevents.load
for local testing.
useDefaultCategories
Type: boolean
Default: false
Use default categories set by Consent Manager instead of destinations.
ConsentManagerBuilder Render Props
- destinations
- newDestinations
- preferences
- destinationPreferences
- havePreferencesChanged
- isConsentRequired
- workspaceAddedNewDestinations
- setPreferences
- resetPreferences
- saveConsent
- onError
destinations
Type: array<object>
Default: []
Destinations enabled for the provided write keys. Each destination contains these properties:
{
id,
name,
description,
website,
category
}
newDestinations
Type: array<object>
Default: []
New destinations that have been enabled since the user last gave consent.
preferences
Type: object
Default: {}
The current preferences in state. By default if should be in the format of {destinationId: true|false}
, but if you're using mapCustomPreferences the object map can be in any format you want. Note: this isn't the saved preferences.
destinationPreferences
Type: object
Default: {}
The current destination specific preferences, i.e. {Amplitude: true}
.
havePreferencesChanged
Type: boolean
Default: false
A boolean value representing whether or not the user has changed their preferences since opening the preferences modal. Will be set to true
if the user interacts with the preferences modal by selecting "Yes" or "No" on any of the consent categories.
This is used to not reload the page if no preferences have changed, as to not create a disruptive user experience.
isConsentRequired
Type: boolean
Default: true
The result of shouldRequireConsent.
workspaceAddedNewDestinations
Type: boolean
Default: false
A boolean value representing whether or not there have been new destinations connected to the source(s) managed by Consent Manager, compared to the destinations set on the existing cookie.
setPreferences
Type: function(object|boolean)
Sets a preference to a new value in state. By default it takes an object map in the format of {destinationId: true|false}
, but if you're using mapCustomPreferences the object map can be in any format you want. It behaves like setState()
in that you can set one or more preferences at a time and they get merged with what's currently in state. You can also pass a boolean to set all destination preferences to true
or false
(you shouldn't do this if you're using mapCustomPreferences).
resetPreferences
Type: function
Resets the preferences state to the value saved in the cookie. Useful for resetting the state when the preferences dialog is closed without saving for example.
saveConsent
Type: function(object|boolean)
Saves the preferences currently in state to a cookie called ht-cm-preferences
, triggers a track
event named Consent Updated
, and then reloads the Browser SDK using the new preferences. It can also be passed preferences like setPreferences to do a final update before saving.
onError
Type: function(object)
Allows you to manually handle if there is an error when initializing - e.g. if there is an ad blocker that prevented fetching the destinations. This will prevent an uncaught error e.g. Failed to fetch
.
Utility functions
openConsentManager()
- Opens the ConsentManager preferences dialog.doNotTrack()
- Returns the user's Do Not Track preference (normalises the cross browser API differences). Returnstrue
,false
ornull
(no preference specified).
Setting Custom Anonymous ID
Hightouch Events Browser SDK generates a universally unique ID (UUID) for the viewer during the library’s initialization phase, and sets this as anonymousId for each new visitor to your site. This happens before the SDK loads any device-mode destinations, and so before these destination-libraries can generate their own user IDs.
Example
htjs_anonymous_id=%2239ee7ea5-b6d8-4174-b612-04e1ef3fa952
You can override the default-generated anonymousID from the Hightouch snippet.
htevents.setAnonymousId('YOUR_CUSTOM_ID')
Note: Keep in mind that setting the anonymousId does not overwrite the anonymous tracking IDs for any destinations you’re using.
There are other ways to override the anonymousID, you can find more information [here][].
Styles
GUIDESTYLES.md contains the list of all components you can use this id to change de styles on Consent Manager.
Development
To run our storybook locally, simply do:
$ npm run dev
and the storybook should be opened in your browser. We recommend adding a new story for new features, and testing against existing stories when making bug fixes.
License
consent-manager is released under the MIT license.
Copyright © 2024 Hightouch