Consent Management

HoundDog.ai integrates with Klaro, an open-source consent management platform, to provide consent collection and cookie management capabilities as part of your privacy program.

Overview

Consent management is a critical component of GDPR and ePrivacy compliance. Organizations must collect, record, and respect user consent before loading third-party services, setting cookies, or processing personal data for specific purposes.

HoundDog.ai partners with Klaro to offer consent management alongside its privacy code scanning capabilities. This integration connects two sides of the privacy equation: what your users consent to on the front end, and what your application code actually does with their data on the back end.

How It Works

Klaro Consent Manager

Klaro is a free and open-source consent management tool that provides a user-friendly, GDPR-compliant way to manage consent on your website or application. Key capabilities include:

• Customizable consent dialog: Configure which third-party services require user consent before loading, with full control over text, layout, and supported languages
• Purpose-based consent: Group services by purpose (e.g., analytics, marketing, functional) so users can make informed, granular consent decisions
• Automatic blocking: Klaro ensures no third-party scripts or trackers execute without user consent, even when JavaScript is disabled or Klaro itself is blocked
• Cookie management: Automatic deletion of cookies when a user revokes consent for a specific service
• Privacy by default: Services are blocked by default until the user provides explicit consent, in compliance with GDPR and ePrivacy requirements
• Multilingual support: Full localization support for consent dialogs across multiple languages
• Lightweight and modern: Klaro is lightweight, compatible with all modern browsers, and works with any JavaScript framework including React, Vue, Angular, and Svelte

Connecting Consent to Code-Level Data Flows

The value of combining HoundDog.ai's privacy code scanner with Klaro's consent management goes beyond checkbox compliance:

• Verify consent alignment: HoundDog.ai detects every third-party and AI integration embedded in your application code. Cross-referencing these with your Klaro consent configuration helps ensure that no service is collecting data without a corresponding consent purpose.
• Detect shadow integrations: When HoundDog.ai's scanner discovers a new third-party SDK or AI integration in code that is not covered by your consent configuration, privacy teams are alerted to close the gap.
• Audit-ready evidence: Combine Klaro's consent records with HoundDog.ai's code-level data flow maps to demonstrate that consent collection aligns with actual data processing activities.

Getting Started

Consent management via the Klaro integration is available for Enterprise customers. To enable this integration for your organization, contact your HoundDog.ai account team.

Resources

• Klaro open-source project: https://github.com/kiprotect/klaro
• HoundDog.ai data sinks coverage: https://github.com/hounddogai/hounddog/blob/main/data-sinks.md