# Considerations before setting up Consent Manager

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**Category:** Privacy\
**Created:** [February 17, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/considerations-before-setting-up-consent-manager/80 "2021-02-17T14:16:59Z")\
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Consent Manager is enabled by default. You can review the [Piwik PRO default settings](https://community.piwik.pro/t/default-settings-of-piwik-pro-core/76/2).

When setting up a consent manager consider the following:

**Do I need to collect consent from visitors to my website?**  
If you are an EU/EEA/UK-based company, or a company where similar privacy laws were introduced (e.g. Brazil & LGDP), OR if you are offering your products or services to the citizens of EU/EEA/UK you need to be in compliance with GDPR and you should implement a consent manager.

Check out article [how to turn off the Consent Manager](https://help.piwik.pro/support/consent-manager/setting-consent-manager/.).

If you are not required collect a consent, you may want to consider [implementing an opt-out](https://help.piwik.pro/support/getting-started/opt-out/).

**Should I collect consent from everyone, or only from EU/EEA/UK-based visitors?**  
If you are EU/EEA/UK-based company, it does not matter where your website visitors are located. In case you are e.g. US-based company, you may consider collecting only consent from EU/EEA/UK-based visitors.

Piwik PRO default setting is to collect consent from everyone. You can [change it in the settings](https://help.piwik.pro/support/consent-manager/setting-consent-manager/).

**Should I collect analytics only for visitors who gave a consent (opted-in)?**  
If you implement a consent manager, you can choose from the following analytics tracking modes:

- **Opt-in only tracking** - analytics data will be collected only for visitors who gave a consent
- **Anonymous data tracking** ( **default** ) - analytics data will be collected for everyone, session-level data will be tracked for everyone, while visitor-level data and other personal data will be collected only for visitors who gave a consent
- **Zero-identity tracking** - analytics data will be collected for everyone, only event-level data will be collected (no sessions/visitors-level data which will make some reports less useful - e.g. reports like funnels, user flow or metrics like avg. time on page won’t work)

Read more [about analytics tracking modes](https://help.piwik.pro/support/getting-started/tracking-options-for-a-privacy-friendly-website/).

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