Create a Privatus Analytics account

Sign up#

Go to Sign up on the website and pick one of these options:

• Sign up with Google, Sign up with GitHub or Sign up with Apple: we use the verified email address of that account. With Apple you can choose Hide My Email, and we then get the relay address Apple makes for you, which forwards to your own.
• Send me a login link: enter your email and open the link we send you. It works once, for 15 minutes. Opening it creates your account and signs you in. Nothing is created until you open it, so a mistyped address leaves no account behind. Disposable email addresses are not accepted.

The email form has one optional checkbox, Send me the monthly product newsletter. It is off unless you tick it.

There is no password to choose at sign-up. The same Email me a login link option on the login page also creates an account for an email that doesn't have one yet. You can add a password, a passkey or two-factor authentication later under Account → Security (see Two-factor authentication).

Continuing with any option confirms you are 18 or older and accepts the Terms, which include our Data Processing Agreement (DPA), and the Privacy Policy. The DPA is part of the Terms, so there is nothing separate to sign. See Privacy & compliance.

Your email is already verified#

Google, GitHub, Apple and the email link all prove that you own the address, so there is no separate confirmation email.

The sign-up and login pages#

The sign-up and login pages show only the logo, the form and one footer line with the Terms and the Privacy Policy. There is no site menu on them. The logo takes you back to the home page.

The mobile app opens the same pages in your phone's browser when you tap Log in or Create account.

Create a workspace#

After your first sign-in, a short setup guide first asks what you want to do with Privatus Analytics: understand your traffic, grow with social proof, get more sign-ups and sales, rank higher in search, keep your site fast and online, or report to clients or your team. Tick any, or skip. Your answer pins the pages that fit to the top of your menu and puts the matching steps first in the checklist. It never hides anything, and you can change it on your account page. A member invited to a workspace is asked this one question alone.

Then the guide asks for a workspace, then a site, then shows the tracking snippet. After the snippet it offers three optional connections that fill your reports straight away: an import of your history (Google Analytics 4 and others), Search Console and Cloudflare. You can skip them and connect later from each report.

A workspace holds your sites, members, billing and API tokens. Most people need one. Agencies often create one per client, or one workspace with per-site access for each client (see Teams). You become the workspace's owner.

Your first workspace starts with 14 days of Pro, with no card. After that it moves to the Free plan by itself unless you pick a paid plan (see Plans). You get one trial, however many workspaces you create.

You can own one workspace on the Free plan. To create another, upgrade the first one to a paid plan. Workspaces on a paid plan are not limited, and neither are workspaces you are invited to.

Next#

Add your first site.