Cookiebot by Usercentrics vs. VGS platform

Any situation where a business needs to implement user-level control and consent over cookies from a website or web app is a suitable place to implement Cookiebot. It has a great deal of flexibility in how you trigger/kill cookies, and in how the user can activate or view features like re-visiting the consent popup at a later date or viewing the cookie declaration. They've really made Cookiebot into a component for your existing website rather than a standalone app.

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If you are working with payments and you don`t want to store that kind of data to avoid a lot of strict requirements and headaches with tight processes, strict security, encryption and everything else you can leverage VGS platform to greatly reduce the work needed to enable payments in your system. They also provide tokenization for some other kinds of data but we currently do not use them. VGS platform also provides a product for compliance and controls (VGS Control) which helps you get ready and maintain compliance in your organization.

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• Cookie sonsent management
• Compliance with GDPR
• Multilanguage support

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• Tokenization of credit card data
• Tokenization of some PII data
• Accelerates compliances certifications

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• The organization of the environments where Cookiebot is being used requires a slight learning curve and some getting used to.
• Viewing user's cookie preferences is a little cumbersome.

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• Infrastructure as Code
• Alerting
• Debugging

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The support is pretty decent, sometimes take a little bit o time to solve things (not critical things) but that is part of the ticketing/email async communication so its fine. All the times I had to contact support a got my issue solved and a lot of attention from the support team to help solving the issue.

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In comparing the offering from our hosting company against Cookiebot, Cookiebot was the winner hands down. Easy to set up, use and monitor it met all of the criteria we had used in our search and at a reasonable price.

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We evaluated Drata as an alternative for VGS Control, but VGS platform control integrates a lot of controls around VGS itself and also with Cloud Infra that we use, which makes the process faster. Also keeping everything with the same vendor makes things easier to manage.

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• A low-cost way to maintain GDPR compliance from a Cookie standpoint.
• Eliminated or reduced overhead costs associated with trying to keep up with cookie declarations and classifications.
• Provided a fast, scalable way to add new cookies in the future while maintaining GDPR compliance without requiring a developer (via Google Tag Manager custom triggers).

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• Increased sales and revenue (enabled digital payments)
• Enabled PCI compliance
• Increased security

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