# Behavioral Data Collection

Clario is a customer-centric marketing platform consisting of a longitudinal, first party, customer-level, labeled data set for machine learning and automated audience activation. Being customer-centric necessitates the collection and curation of prospect and customer behavioral data. One of the best sources of customer behavioral data today is our client’s web site.

## **Behavioral Tracking Framework**

To collect this data, Clario operates the [Snowplow](https://snowplowanalytics.com/) behavioral data management platform on behalf of our clients. The platform operates within our own cloud infrastructure, ensuring compliance with our data privacy and protection policies and procedures.

### **Behavioral Data Collected**

To most accurately predict a customer’s future behaviors, Clario behavioral tracking focuses on site activity and engagement which reveals the customer’s product/service preferences, readiness to make a purchase, and identifying elements which are fed into a first-party identity graph to unify on and offline events into a persistent customer identifier.

### **Behavioral Tracking Tag Implementation**

Clario provides a reference tag implementation with baseline data collection capabilities including:

* Session level details
  * Customer identity (an anonymized ID or email address)
  * Navigation breadcrumb
* Order summary details
  * Transaction ID
  * Financials (order total, tax, shipping, discounts, coupon codes)
* Order line-item details
  * Transaction ID
  * Item details (description, sku, quantity, product affiliation)
  * Financials
* Behavioral events
  * Add to cart (sku, quantity, price)
  * Remove from cart (sku, quantity, price)
  * Search (search term, total number of results, number of first page results)

Baseline data collection can be augmented with additional site-specific items as needed.

### **First Party Status**

To improve the ability of the Clario tag to collect longitudinally identifiable customer behavioral data, we require [first party status](https://clearcode.cc/blog/difference-between-first-party-third-party-cookies). First party status ensures Clario's data collection operates as expected with current and upcoming browser vendor Intelligent Tracking Prevention efforts. The following items are required to meet this requirement:

* DNS records (created by the client)
* An SSL certificate (procured by Clario and installed on its data collection infrastructure)


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