Papercups is a GDPR compliant Intercom alternative

Papercups lets you chat with your customer without requiring you to have any cookie banners or data consent forms. Although have a privacy policy here we wanted to write a concise verson of what we track in our chat widget and how it applies to your company and customers.

Current page URL: We track current URL through location.href property. This helps with debugging issues when a user is on the page

Browser: We track browser through user_agent to help debug browser compatibility issues

Browser version: We track browser version through user_agent again for debugging purposes

Screen height/width: We track screen width and height to help debug any rendering issues

Timezone: We track time zone through DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone to help schedule calls with your customers

For more information about our chatwidget collection you can read our source code here.

Email: We store your customers email if it is provided with our requireEmailUpfront flag

Customer metadata: We store any metadata you send in to our customers parameter in the chat widget

Story Time/Live view is a live screen sharing plugin where you can help your customers debug their issue with the website. This is an optional plugin where you can install on your website separately. This feature is purely for live streaming purposes and we don't store any of the sessions.

Here is our soruce code for Story Time/Live View

We don't use any cookies on our chat widget so you don't need to add a cookie banner to your website if you use our chat widget. We use local browser storage so that nothing leaves their machine and isn't tracked across websites. The biggest limitation with this is we can't track across any domain. For example if your user has a conversation from app.yoursite.com and then moves to yoursite.com we won't be able to track the conversation unless they provide their email.

All of the data we track and store is secured and encrypted in servers in EU (Frankfurt). This makes sure that your customer data is being covered by the EU's data privacy and privacy laws

At Papercups we believe you own your website's data and that it should be easily portable. We take data privacy and ownership very seriously and that is why we offer a self hosted version of our software so you can manage and maintain absolute control over your data.

Papercups is an open source live customer chat tool. Our source code is available and accessible to everyone. This way you can verify our actions yourself and don't have to take our word for it