Most analytics tools treat privacy as an afterthought. We built Otus the other way around. It runs cookieless out of the box, so there's no consent banner and no personal data to worry about. When you need deeper marketing attribution, you can switch on cookie mode. Either way, your visitors get an experience that doesn't track, profile, or follow them around the web.
Cookieless by default
Ships without cookies or persistent identifiers. No consent banner required out of the box.
Cookie mode opt-in
Enable cookies when you need richer marketing attribution. Otus provides a built-in consent layer.
GDPR by design
No personal data collected or stored. No need to list us as a data processor.
EU infrastructure
All servers and data processors are located within the European Union.
The goal of Otus is to show you overall trends in your website traffic, not to track individual visitors. All data is aggregate only. There is no visitor-level detail, no session replays and no heatmaps of individual behaviour.
We collect only the essential signals needed to give you a useful, actionable picture of your traffic. Nothing else.
What we collect
What we never collect
Because Otus does not use cookies and does not collect personal data, we are compliant with GDPR, CCPA, PECR and ePrivacy by design, not by configuration. There is nothing to turn on or off.
Multiple EU data protection authorities have ruled that Google Analytics violates GDPR by transferring personal data to US servers. Switching to Otus removes that risk entirely. All data stays in the EU, processed only by EU-based infrastructure, under EU law.
You do not need to add Otus to your privacy policy as a data processor. We do not act as a processor of personal data because we do not collect any.
Visitors who decline a cookie banner on other tools simply aren't counted. With Otus there is no banner and every visitor is counted, which gives you a more complete and accurate picture of your traffic.
Otus Analytics is designed and operated entirely within the European Union. All servers, all data processing and all infrastructure are EU-based. Your analytics data never leaves EU borders. No transatlantic transfers, no standard contractual clauses and no grey areas.
We use European cloud providers exclusively. No data is routed through US-owned services at any point in the pipeline.
When you use Otus, you own and control all of your website data. You can export or delete everything at any time, with no questions asked and no retention period imposed beyond what you configure.
Otus is funded entirely by subscriptions. We do not sell your data, show ads, or share visitor information with any third party. There is no advertising business model to protect, no investor pressure to monetise your data, and no incentive to do anything with it other than show it to you.
Most sites are happy on the cookieless default, and it needs no setup at all. But if your business runs on marketing attribution or you want to recognise returning visitors across sessions, cookie mode is one switch away. You decide what gets collected, and when.
Cookieless mode
Suitable for most sites. Fully GDPR compliant. No legal review required.
Cookie-enabled mode
Requires a cookie consent banner. Otus provides a built-in consent layer you can customise.
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