I am bit lost in trying to figure out how to opt out Sitecore Analytics for us to comply to GDPR
thingy, and then come to doubt if Sitecore Analytics is really working on my Sitecore instance. If it doesn't then I don't need to do the opting out.
So here's what I found out:
Upon checking
Sitecore.xDB config
(fromWebsite\App_Config\Include
), bothXdb.Tracking.Enabled
andXdb.Enabled
was set totrue
BUT is being overridden by theSitecoreSettings
config. So in the end,Xdb.Enabled
was set tofalse
andXdb.Tracking.Enabled
was set totrue
. I've seen it from/sitecore/admin/showconfig.aspx
. Weird thing is (I said weird just because I still have no idea WHY) when looking at mySitecoreSettings
config, there's no node for that kind of setting. Only a setting for myLicenseFile
.Interesting...There was no
xDB license
installed. Upon checking it onSitecore Controler Panel > Administration > Installed licenses
.Sitecore.Analytics
config is NOT disabledWe don't have
mongoDB
I don't understand the difference between xDB.Enabled
and xDB.Tracking.Enabled
. So I've read the documentation regarding Analytics (hopefully the link won't go dead): Disabling xd and xd tracking
Okay, so it says:
When you set Xdb.Tracking.Enabled to true and have xDB disabled:
Contacts cannot be identified immediately, and any data gathered from the contact is discarded at the end of the session.
You can use personalization rules for contact facets and segmentation.
IP Geolocation services are available.
Engagement plan processing occurs for the live session.
Contact repositories are available for the session, and outcomes that are triggered during the session are registered.
Okay based on my understanding (Please don't punish me if I'm wrong :/ ), everything about the visitor interactions will be saved BUT on session-based only, then it will be then save to mongoDB
or sql
if there's no mongoDB
(?). So if that's that's the case, it still really does tracking on the site's visitors (anonymous visitors
only on my case, because we don't have login feature for the site visitors
, if my understanding is correct though)
So my question is: Is my investigation correct?
What I'm using is Sitecore 8.2