Server-side tracking was invented to get signal back after browsers clamped down. Somewhere along the way, it also became a very convenient place to lose the consent question. Move the pixels behind a server, hand the customer a container, and let "configure consent mode yourself" do the legal heavy lifting.
We watched that happen from the consent side of the fence. Thousands of websites collecting consent properly at the front door, then leaking data through a misconfigured tag in the back. The banner was perfect. The pipeline behind it was fiction.
HeySignal exists to close that door.
In most tracking stacks, consent is a plain-text field that tags may or may not read. In HeySignal it is cryptographic proof, signed into every event and verified before processing. No proof, no processing.
When something is ambiguous, broken, stale, or missing, the event is refused. A tracking system that fails open is a compliance system that fails, full stop.
Personal data is stripped unless you explicitly choose to hash or send a field, per destination, per field. The default answer to "should we forward this?" is no.
Our edge is Bunny.net. Our databases are OVHcloud in France and Germany. An "EU region" rented from a US hyperscaler answers a different question than the one regulators and DPOs are asking.
Our docs state HTTP codes, time windows, and algorithms. Our comparisons carry sources and dates. If we haven't earned a certification yet, the security page says so plainly.
This industry has a genre of features we want no part of. So, in writing:
If a feature only makes sense when nobody is looking, it does not make sense.
HeySignal is a team.blue brand, alongside iubenda and CookieFirst. We spent years on the consent-collection side, integrating every tag manager and tracking tool our customers used. That vantage point is the product: we saw exactly where consent goes to die, and built the first tracking gateway where it can't.
"Hey" is the knock on the door. "Signal" is what you get after it's answered. Tracking that introduces itself before it enters felt like something the internet was owed.
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