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Consent fields

Add consent fields to the registration process of the webinar according to the GDPR legislation.

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Written by Tim
Updated over a week ago

Because of, for example, the GDPR legislation it’s necessary to ask consent to process/save the personal details of people that register. For this purpose, WebinarGeek allows you to create consent fields and add them to all your registration pages. The easiest way is to add these from your account.

On account level

  1. Click 'Account' in the top right.

  2. Click 'My account' in the dropdown menu.

  3. Go to 'Privacy and security'.

  4. Click 'Consent fields'.

  5. Click 'Add consent field'.

    Adding a consent field in WebinarGeek

  6. Add a 'Name for internal use', this is something you’ll only see as the account owner.

  7. Add a 'Text next to checkmark', this is a text that will be displayed on the registration page or the embed form next to the checkmark where subscribers can indicate if they agree to the terms and conditions.

  8. You can choose to prevent people from registering when they don’t give you consent. To do this, click on: 'Make field mandatory, registration without consent not possible'.

  9. Decide what type of consent field it should be from the three available types.

    • 'Only show checkmark and text': The registration will only see the checkmark and the text you’ve added at 'Text next to checkmark'.

    • 'Link to external URL': Here you can add a link to your agreement. Give your agreement an applicable name that is visible to your visitors and add an external URL.

    • 'Link to an agreement text': Here you can add your own agreement text, which will show up as a pop-up on-screen when the visitor clicks on it. Give your agreement an applicable name that is visible to your visitors and add your text.

  10. Configure for which webinars this consent field is relevant. At 'All languages' this consent field will be used for each webinar, for 'Dutch' it will be used for all webinars set up using the Dutch language, and for 'English' it will be applied to all webinars set up using the English language.

  11. Don't forget to click 'Create Consent' to save your changes!

Configure for each webinar

You can create a separate consent field for each individual webinar. For example, you can do this when one webinar uses different conditions than the other one.

You can set this up when creating/editing your webinar: 'Registration' > 'Registration fields' > '+ Add consent field'. Follow the steps and choose 'Add consent field'. Click here for more explanation about the steps.

Also have a general consent field active in your account? The separate consent field will be displayed below the general one.

Example of a consent field on a webinar registration page

Use as email opt-in

You may choose to save the consent field as an email opt-in field. This means your registrations will be added to an email list automatically after consent. Make sure to configure your email integration with WebinarGeek to activate this feature.

Check the box at: 'This field is an email opt-in field.'

Using a consent field as an email opt-in field

When you mark a consent field as "email opt-in", this will mean the following:

  • For the webinar this field is visible at, users will only be added to an email list when this option is enabled.

  • This option automatically cooperates with your email integrations within WebinarGeek. So when you’ve set up an integration with MailChimp, Autorespond or any other supported email provider, someone will be automatically added to that mailing list when that person ticked the required consent field.

  • For webinars where this field isn't be visible, users will always be added to your mailing list (in case you configured a mailing list).

Edit/remove consent field

On account level

  1. Click 'Account' in the top right.

  2. Click 'My account' in the dropdown menu.

  3. Go to 'Privacy and security'.

  4. Click 'Consent fields'.

  5. Click the three dots next to the consent field you want to edit or remove

  6. Choose the desired option

Removing or editing a consent field

For each webinar

Click on your webinar > 'Edit webinar' > 'Registration' > 'Registration fields'.

You can edit your consent field or remove it by clicking on 'Options' > 'Edit' or 'Remove'.

Removing or editing a consent field for an individual webinar

Export data for burden of proof

All collected data via your "consent fields" can be retrieved in your webinar statistics. In that way, you can always meet GDPR requirements related to your burden of proof.

Click on 'Statistics' in your webinar dashboard, go to 'Registrations' > 'Subscribers' and click on 'Export to CSV'. Open the .CSV file and adapt the column width so you can properly see all filled in columns. Click here for more information about automatically adapting column width (Autoadapt).

The .CSV file contains 2 extra columns:

  • Consents, here you’ll find the consent fields the viewer agreed to.

  • Registration source, here you’ll find which source the viewer registered from, e.g. the registration page, an embed form, or another source.

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