A DPO who needed a consent record before a DPA inquiry closed. A legal team who discovered a year of GDPR exposure in their existing banner setup. An engineering lead who needed deployment-proof pre-consent blocking. Three problems. One infrastructure layer.
"We had a DPA inquiry that asked us to prove consent records for a specific user segment from six months prior. We had the export in 40 seconds. The inquiry closed without escalation."
Audit prep time: 3 days → 20 minutes
Problem solved: No pre-consent blocking meant ad pixels were firing before the banner rendered. The DPO discovered this during an internal audit, not from a regulator — and fixed it before it became a finding.
"Our previous banner collected clicks. It didn't block scripts. After a compliance review, we realised we had a year of GDPR exposure. Consentpane closed that gap in one afternoon."
GDPR exposure risk eliminated
Problem solved: Legal needed verifiable proof that consent predated data collection. With Consentpane's audit log showing the exact timestamp and banner version, they can demonstrate this at any time.
"Marketing kept accidentally re-enabling trackers after deployments. Consentpane catches it at the network layer — it doesn't matter what they push in GTM, scripts can't fire without consent."
Accidental tracker fires: eliminated
Problem solved: A shared GTM container between marketing and engineering meant consent configuration could be overridden. Consentpane's SDK-level intercept is independent of GTM, so changes to tag triggers don't affect pre-consent blocking.
A complete consent record in exportable format before any DPA inquiry. Audit logs prove pre-consent blocking was active, not just that a banner was visible. Consent rate reporting by jurisdiction for your annual GDPR assessment. Consentpane does not replace your DPO role — it gives you the technical evidence base you need to do it.
Machine-readable proof that third-party scripts did not fire before a consent decision. Timestamped records of every withdrawal and preference change — available immediately, not assembled from server logs. Documentation suitable for responding to a data subject rights request under GDPR Article 15 or CCPA consumer access inquiries.
One script tag, placed once, before any other tags in your <head>. No plugin dependency, no GTM consent mode configuration that marketing can override. The SDK-level intercept is independent of your tag container — changes to GTM triggers don't affect what can fire before consent.