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Osano

Score9.1 out of 10

17 Reviews and Ratings

What is Osano?

As privacy regulations evolve, organizations are grappling with an increasingly complex web of state and global privacy laws. This isn't just a challenge for compliance teams; it’s a company-wide issue, with regulators imposing over $1 billion in fines in 2024 alone, not to mention customers becoming increasingly litigious over biometric data, cookies and tracking technologies. Osano simplifies privacy compliance for organizations worldwide, empowering privacy professionals to turn a regulatory nightmare into a competitive advantage. By addressing visible privacy risks and fostering trust among customers, employees, and regulators, Osano helps to ensure privacy programs becomes a driver of growth, not a roadblock.

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Screenshot of the Osano Home Page.
Screenshot of the Cookie Consent Banner Customization and Localization Preview.
Screenshot of the Subject Rights Request Verification Workflow.
Screenshot of the Vendor Privacy Risk Score.
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Screenshot of the interface to reach out to privacy experts.
Screenshot of an example of Osano's subject rights reporting.
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Pros

  • Effective cookie consent management across digital properties
  • Strong and responsive customer support team
  • High customizability and adaptability to specific privacy needs

Cons

  • Direct financial ROI is not consistently perceived; often viewed purely as a compliance expenditure

Great privacy management tool.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Osano to help our Shopify store stay compliant. It can be difficult keeping up with changing privacy policies, so we appreciate Osano for always updating us with things related to cookie consent and subject rights. We have so many apps that are integrated with our store as well, and we love that it can integrate into those and help automate the process.

Pros

  • Cookie consent
  • Subject rights

Cons

  • Clarification on how to use the tool at times
  • Most efficient ways to integrate with various platforms

Return on Investment

  • Definitely has reduced the amount of time it takes to handle request types by hours
  • Helps minimize our risk

Usability

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Osano is used to manage our cookie consent policy across our network of websites. They help provide consistency so that our visitors can make their respective privacy choices while still supporting our clients advertising and analytical tracking needs.

Osano mainly addressed the inconsistency with consent practices across our websites as well as assisting with the various state laws throughout the country.

Our use case centers on cookie consent, consent banners and visitor preferences and allowing our clients to still be able to track and coordinate using their marketing and analytical tags.

Pros

  • Client support is very good with direct and concise answers
  • The dashboard is easy to use and follow
  • Tag and script automated identification works fairly well

Cons

  • The ability to make rules for all sites in a network rather than having to do it manually 300+times
  • The ability to batch process identified scripts and publish as needed

Return on Investment

  • Maintaining sites throughout the country, using a tool like Osano helps us ensure that we stay compliant with the various state laws.
  • By being compliant, the ROI is simple, helps keep us away from litigation.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

OneTrust Privacy Automation

Other Software Used

Cloudflare, Akamai Cloud Computing, WordPress

Review for Osano.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Osano for cookie compliance, subject rights, and compliance checks. So far, it has been a good experience. The Osano product has proven to be the best fit for our needs. Our business problem was finding a low-cost vendor to help us reduce compliance costs. It's only been two months, but we are pleased with the results.

Pros

  • Subject rights.
  • Compliance check.
  • Cookie Compliance.

Cons

  • None
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Return on Investment

  • Cost savings.
  • Time
  • Risk management.

Usability

Osano Review - Great Support and Ease of Use

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Osano today for cookie consent management on our marketing website. Primarily, cookie consent can be a difficult problem to address depending on the function who owns it, especially for organizations that rely on their websites as a marketing funnel. The scope of our use today is cookie consent management, configuration, and identification.

Pros

  • Consent management
  • Cookie/script identification
  • Cookie/script classification
  • Support

Cons

  • Demo configurations for seeing how the cookie consent banners appear
  • Customization of cookie consent banners within the management platform

Return on Investment

  • Quality of life - easy to work with and maintain
  • Issue identification - easy self serve identification and triage

Usability

Osano is the best choice for Marketers

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We implemented Osano to ensure we were compliant with our cookie consent in our geographies where we operate. Osano was the most customizable that allowed us to still retain our ability to market effectively to prospects.

Pros

  • customization
  • customer support

Cons

  • more complex integration than other tools
  • time to value

Return on Investment

  • no positive ROI, but we were using it for compliance reasons

Usability

Alternatives Considered

CookieYes