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Snowplow

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Sets cookies
Yes
Sends PII
No
Cross-site tracking
No
Consent required
Analytics
Transfer mechanism
Standard Contractual Clauses
Cookies
_sp_id.XXXX_sp_ses.XXXX

Overview

Behavioural data platform for creating and collecting first-party data. Open-source event tracker that sends data to your own data warehouse (Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks). Provides full data ownership with no vendor lock-in on the data store.

Detection capabilities

Signature count
1
Detection methods
network
Property types
hostnamepathname

Performance impact

Performance Impact

Script size
40 KB
Requests per page
1

Common mistakes

  • 1Initialising the Snowplow tracker before consent is obtained, which sends events immediately
  • 2Assuming self-hosted data collection eliminates all compliance obligations — consent is still required
  • 3Not configuring anonymous tracking mode for users who have not consented

Compliance considerations

Data is sent to your own data warehouse infrastructure, providing full data ownership and control over storage location. The compliance posture depends on your infrastructure choices — self-hosted collection and EU-based data warehousing can eliminate international transfer concerns. Analytics consent is still required for behavioural tracking. Configure the tracker to respect consent state before sending events.

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