Privacy Center Overview

The Fides Privacy Center is a configurable webpage where users can request to access, update, or delete their data or update their consent preferences.

Deploy the privacy center

The following steps assume that you have Docker installed. For more information on how to install Docker, please see the Docker documentation (opens in a new tab).

The Privacy Center is provided in a standalone Docker image called ethyca/fides-privacy-center. To deploy this image, run the following command:

docker pull ethyca/fides-privacy-center

Below is a representative example of the default privacy center:

Privacy center environment variables

There are a variety of settings for fides-privacy-center that are controlled by providing FIDES_PRIVACY_CENTER__*-prefixed environment variables to the container. In a Fides Cloud deployment, contact Ethyca Support to request changes to these. For the purposes of /fides.js hosting, the following settings are relevant:

Configure the privacy center

The Fides Privacy Center can be configured through the API or by editing configuration files directly. See Configuration Methods for details.

Modifying the settings

Once configured, you can customize various aspects of your privacy center:

• Configure privacy request options
• Configure which consent options appear
• Configure advanced styling

Basic settings

You can modify basic settings like title, description, and logo in your configuration:

{
    "title": "Take control of your data",
    "description": "When you use our services, you're trusting us with your information. We understand this is a big responsibility and work hard to protect your information and put you in control.",
    "logo_path": "/logo.svg",
    "logo_url": "https://fid.es",
    "privacy_policy_url": "https://fid.es/privacy",
    "privacy_policy_url_text": "Privacy Policy",
    "page_title": "Cookie House Privacy Center",
}