Help & support

For GhostStat analytics, no. The tracker sets no cookies and uses no local storage, and it never stores IP addresses, so there is nothing to consent to for the analytics themselves. Always check your own obligations, especially if you run other scripts on the page.

It derives a short-lived, one-way hash from the site, network, browser and the calendar day, salted per site. Because the day is part of the input, the hash rotates every 24 hours and can’t follow anyone across days, and it can’t be linked between two different sites. See the Privacy Policy.

Every plugin is part of the product on every plan, including Free. Paid plans raise the amount of traffic your account can measure, not the features you’re allowed to use. See Pricing.

In Dronten, the Netherlands, inside the European Union.

Yes. Enable public stats in a site’s settings and you get a shareable, crawlable page showing aggregates only (top pages, referrers, devices, countries). Individual visitors, recordings and heatmaps are never exposed publicly.

For enterprise customers we set up custom installations on your own infrastructure (PHP 8.5 and MariaDB). There is no public download; contact us to talk about an enterprise setup.

Right here. GhostStat Guardian, for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android, shows your own GhostStat sites: sign in with your GhostStat email address and the code we send you. Guardian counts which of its own screens are opened, without cookies or device IDs; switch that off in Guardian under Settings → Privacy. See the Privacy Policy for what the app stores, or use the contact form below.

Yes. You can send custom events from your own code or via the built-in Tag Manager plugin, and read your stats through the API. The install page and in-app docs have the details.

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