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First configuration

BimBeau Privacy Analytics provides a four-step configuration assistant for eligible new installations. It records only administrator choices and can be resumed or launched again from Settings → General.

Important

The assistant provides product configuration, not a guarantee of GDPR or other legal compliance. Site owners remain responsible for their legal basis, privacy notice, CMP configuration, and consent records.

The four steps

First step of the BimBeau Privacy Analytics setup assistant

First step of the setup assistant: turn advanced statistics on or keep essential statistics.
  1. Advanced statistics — Choose Enable advanced statistics and continue for enriched signals, or Continue with essential statistics only. When advanced tracking requires prior consent, configure your CMP to block bbpa-advanced-tracker until the visitor accepts the Analytics or Statistics category. BimBeau Privacy Analytics does not provide a CMP or store visitor consent.
  2. Local GeoIP database — Choose Download the GeoIP database and continue to make one explicit server-side request to the BimBeau GeoIP Database Service. Automatic updates remain disabled. Choose Continue without local geolocation to open a confirmation dialog instead; geographic origin, country, region, and city information remain unavailable until an administrator installs a database in Geolocation settings. Core traffic measurements continue.
  3. Referrer favicons — Choose Allow referrer favicons and continue to allow server-side retrieval of validated icons for referrer domains and local caching. Choose Continue without enabling favicons to keep the feature disabled and use the local generic icon.
  4. Summary — Review the reported advanced-statistics, local GeoIP, automatic-update, and favicon states, then choose Finish configuration.

Resume, relaunch, and existing sites

Closing the assistant marks it in progress and leaves a resume card on BBPA screens. Completing it removes that card and prevents another automatic opening. The assistant opens automatically at most once for an eligible new installation. A manual relaunch preserves current settings and never starts an external request until its corresponding primary action is clicked. Finishing the assistant saves only the advanced statistics and referrer favicon choices; access roles, exclusions, data retention, MaxMind credentials, and other settings keep their current values.

Existing installations keep their advanced-statistics behavior during upgrade. Referrer favicons are introduced disabled, and automatic GeoIP updates remain disabled unless an administrator explicitly selects a frequency.

Completion behavior

After every final save succeeds, the administration reloads to apply the saved tracking, geolocation, and favicon settings throughout the interface. A completion notice appears once after the reload. If local geolocation was skipped, one GeoIP database notice provides a link to the geolocation settings after onboarding is complete. A failed final save keeps the assistant open and does not display a completion notice.