E-commerce businesses collect extensive customer data across websites, mobile apps, payment systems, marketing platforms, and fulfillment partners. IQWorks automates privacy compliance, manages cookie consent at scale, and enables rapid response to customer data deletion and access requests.
4%
45 days
30+
$7,500
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Maximum GDPR fine as a percentage of global annual turnover or €20M, whichever is greater
Source: GDPR Art. 83(5)
The Challenge
E-commerce companies are data-intensive by nature. Every customer interaction generates personal data: browsing behavior, purchase history, payment information, shipping addresses, customer service interactions, and marketing preferences. This data flows through storefronts, payment processors, email marketing platforms, analytics tools, customer support systems, and advertising networks.
Privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA give consumers significant control over their personal data. Customers can request access to all data held about them, demand deletion, or opt out of data sales. For an e-commerce business with millions of customer records spread across 20+ systems, fulfilling these requests manually is unsustainable.
Cookie consent management adds another layer of complexity. E-commerce sites rely heavily on tracking technologies for analytics, retargeting, and personalization. Regulations require obtaining valid consent before setting non-essential cookies, and consent preferences must be respected across all marketing and analytics platforms in real time.
Customer Data Spread Across Marketing Stack
Customer PII flows through email platforms, analytics tools, advertising networks, and CRM systems, creating dozens of data silos that must all be included in DSR responses.
High Volume of Consumer Rights Requests
E-commerce businesses with large customer bases receive hundreds or thousands of CCPA/GDPR data subject requests monthly. Manual processing cannot scale to meet regulatory timelines.
Cookie Consent and Tracking Compliance
E-commerce sites deploy dozens of tracking pixels and cookies for analytics, retargeting, and personalization. Ensuring valid consent is collected and honored across all tags in real time is technically complex.
Payment Data Protection
PCI-DSS requires strict controls on cardholder data, but payment information can leak into customer service logs, order management systems, and analytics databases if not properly managed.
Third-Party Vendor Data Sharing
E-commerce businesses share customer data with shipping carriers, payment processors, review platforms, and advertising partners. Tracking data flows to third parties and ensuring compliance is operationally challenging.
The Solution
IQWorks provides e-commerce businesses with end-to-end data protection that covers every system in the commerce stack. DiscoverIQ scans storefronts, order management systems, marketing platforms, analytics tools, and fulfillment systems to map all customer data. ClassifyIQ identifies and tags PII, payment data, and behavioral data with appropriate regulatory classifications.
ConsentIQ manages cookie consent banners and preference centers that integrate with tag management systems to enforce consent choices in real time. When a customer opts out of data sales under CCPA, ConsentIQ propagates that preference to all connected marketing and analytics platforms immediately.
SearchIQ automates DSR fulfillment by locating customer records across all systems, compiling comprehensive response packages, and executing verified deletions. ProtectIQ ensures payment data is tokenized throughout the order lifecycle. RetainIQ enforces data minimization by automatically purging customer records that have exceeded their retention period.
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Connect Your Commerce Stack
IQWorks integrates with Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, Stripe, marketing platforms, analytics tools, and fulfillment systems through pre-built connectors and APIs.
Connect Your Commerce Stack
IQWorks integrates with Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, Stripe, marketing platforms, analytics tools, and fulfillment systems through pre-built connectors and APIs.
Map Customer Data Flows
DiscoverIQ traces how customer data moves from storefront to payment processor to marketing platform to analytics, building a complete data flow map.
Map Customer Data Flows
DiscoverIQ traces how customer data moves from storefront to payment processor to marketing platform to analytics, building a complete data flow map.
Deploy Consent Management
ConsentIQ deploys customizable cookie consent banners and preference centers that integrate with your tag management system to enforce consent choices in real time.
Deploy Consent Management
ConsentIQ deploys customizable cookie consent banners and preference centers that integrate with your tag management system to enforce consent choices in real time.
Automate DSR Fulfillment
SearchIQ processes customer access, deletion, and opt-out requests by locating records across all connected systems and executing the requested action within regulatory timelines.
Automate DSR Fulfillment
SearchIQ processes customer access, deletion, and opt-out requests by locating records across all connected systems and executing the requested action within regulatory timelines.
Protect Sensitive Data
ProtectIQ tokenizes payment data, masks PII in non-production environments, and ensures customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit across all systems.
Protect Sensitive Data
ProtectIQ tokenizes payment data, masks PII in non-production environments, and ensures customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit across all systems.
Key Benefits
Key Takeaways
- Automate CCPA and GDPR data subject request fulfillment across your entire commerce stack
- Deploy compliant cookie consent management that integrates with your tag management system
- Reduce DSR response time from weeks to hours with AI-powered record location
- Protect payment card data from leaking into unauthorized systems
- Maintain a real-time data map of all customer data across marketing and fulfillment systems
- Enforce data minimization policies that automatically reduce your data footprint
- Propagate opt-out preferences to all marketing and advertising platforms in real time
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