Privacy policy for Plausible apps

What Plausible does on a live site

Plausible is in the analytics category. On sites we scan, it shows up through plausible.io. Its role is to count visits without a conventional tracking cookie.

Data that may be processed: Page URL, referrer, browser, and country, without a cross-site advertising cookie. The vendor describes the location as: European Union (Plausible Insights). Their public privacy or data-processing terms are at https://plausible.io/privacy.

A privacy policy for a Plausible app should name Plausible directly and say what your own product sends to it. A phrase like "third-party tools" is not enough once this service is on the page.

Plausible's script is loaded from plausible.io and is built to avoid an advertising cookie. You still name Plausible, because the page URL and referrer are sent to them. A cookie policy can say that this analytics tool is not the same thing as an ad pixel.

What you still have to type

The scan cannot know your company name, the country you operate from, or the support email you want on the page. Those go in a short form after the scan. The legal clauses around them are fixed template text, marked as a draft until a lawyer reviews them.