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GoToWebinar

GoToWebinar

Embeds registration forms, countdown widgets, and live attendee join interfaces on event landing pages. Collects registrant contact details, attendance duration, poll responses, and engagement metrics that event hosts access for follow-up communications and reporting.

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Overview

GoToWebinar is a webinar hosting platform owned by GoTo (formerly LogMeIn). Its scripts embed registration forms, event countdown widgets, and live attendee join interfaces on event landing pages. GoToWebinar is used by marketing, training, and events teams to host and promote webinar-based content to both prospects and customers.

What This Script Does

GoToWebinar's embeddable components load on event landing pages:

  • Registration forms: Collects attendee contact details (name, email, company, job title, and custom fields) and submits them to GoToWebinar's registration servers. Confirmed registrants receive email confirmations with join links.
  • Event widgets: Displays countdown timers, event descriptions, and speaker information. Renders "Join Now" buttons for live events that redirect to GoToWebinar's hosted attendee interface.
  • Cookies: May set cookies to track registration source attribution (UTM parameters, referrer), prevent duplicate registrations, and manage session state during the registration flow.
  • Engagement tracking: During live events, tracks attendee engagement metrics — attendance duration, poll responses, chat participation, and question submissions. This data is available to the host for follow-up segmentation.
  • Marketing integration: Registration and attendance data can be synced to connected CRM and marketing automation platforms (Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo) for lead scoring and follow-up campaigns.

Consent & Compliance

GoToWebinar operates in a mixed functional/marketing consent category. The registration and event delivery are functional, but the source attribution tracking and marketing platform integrations serve marketing purposes.

Under GDPR and ePrivacy, registration forms collect personal data requiring a lawful basis under GDPR Article 6. Cookies for source attribution and UTM tracking are non-essential. Data forwarding to CRM and marketing platforms requires transparency about recipients. The registration form itself involves voluntary data submission, but the tracking overlay requires consent.

Under CCPA/CPRA, attendee data shared with marketing platforms constitutes processing personal information for marketing purposes.

Should You Block This Without Consent?

Conditional. The registration form serves a functional purpose when the visitor initiates it. However, the source attribution cookies and data forwarding to marketing platforms should be gated behind marketing consent. Load the basic registration form without tracking parameters, and enable marketing integrations only after consent is granted.

Is GoToWebinar GDPR compliant?

GoToWebinar typically loads functional and marketing trackers, which are not strictly necessary for your site to work. Under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, non-essential cookies and trackers must stay blocked until a visitor gives clear opt-in consent. So GoToWebinar can be fully GDPR compliant, but only if your site holds its scripts until consent is granted and lets visitors decline just as easily. Compliance depends on how your site loads GoToWebinar, not on GoToWebinar itself.

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Consent Categories

FunctionalMarketing

Also Known As

gotowebinargo to webinargoto webinargotowebinar embedwebinar registration formgotowebinar widget

Tracked Domains (1)

gotowebinar.comFunctional

gotowebinar.com is a functional domain operated by GoToWebinar, used to run site features like chat, video, embeds, and preferences.

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