iubenda

What Stevin gets out of iubenda

iubenda is the pragmatic choice for SMBs: consent, privacy policy and cookie policy in an accessible package, so you are demonstrably in order fast without a lawyer or a big project. We use it for smaller clients who want to tick the compliance box and move on, not for organizations with heavy governance requirements. Where it pinches is exactly that simplicity: the moment you want more than a standard banner, or the connection to your tracking has to be right, you hit the limits of the package. Teams assume installed is the same as measuring correctly, and that often disappoints. iubenda handles the consent, not whether your tags pick up that consent. Stevin runs on top, reads the consent status with your tag data and flags when measurement drops out because of consent, so a silent error surfaces before you lose a month of data on it.

What you pair it with

iubenda covers the basics fast and cheap, but you still need a tag manager and a Consent Mode connection to get the measurement side right. For a simple site that is enough, for anything more complex you run into the ceilings. In practice: use iubenda for the policies and the standard banner, and separately check whether your most important conversion data comes in after consent. The question that remains is not whether you have a banner, but whether your tracking behind it actually measures what you need.

Common mistakes

• →Assuming a placed banner equals correct measurement.
• →Wanting to stretch iubenda into a setup it cannot handle.
• →Skipping the Consent Mode connection because the policies are in order.
• →Only noticing at a reporting gap that tags ignore consent.