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Privacy isn’t the brake.
It’s the engine.
Cloakwell Data Guard was founded on a simple observation: the companies most afraid of privacy regulation are the ones with the most to gain from consent done right. We build the infrastructure that turns compliance into data you can actually use.
Our story
From banner vendor
to data partner.
We started in 2019 with a single consent banner and an obsession with opt-in rates. Six years later, Cloakwell Data Guard is a full privacy platform — consent, preferences, scanning, server-side infrastructure and request automation — trusted by more than 1,500 organizations worldwide.
What never changed: we measure ourselves on our clients’ data performance, not just their audit results. Compliance is the floor. Growth is the goal.
2019founded in Paris & Berlin
1,500+clients worldwide
180privacy engineers & experts
How we work, every day.
Consent first, always
No dark patterns, no inflated opt-in claims. We win when your visitors genuinely choose you — because that data performs.
Proof over promises
Every feature ships with the evidence trail regulators ask for. If it can’t be audited, it doesn’t ship.
Marketers are users too
Privacy tools should be as usable as the ad platforms they feed. Design, speed and clarity are product requirements.
AI readiness
AI done right
starts with privacy
AI models are only as trustworthy as the data behind them. Cloakwell gives your data science team clean, consented, purpose-limited datasets — with lineage from first click to training row. Clear purpose, lawful basis and a full audit trail from the start.
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