OWNERSHIP FIRST

Own your compliance data. Always.

Nobody cares about your data as much as you do. Why let someone else control it?

The Difference

Who Controls Your Compliance Data?

Two very different answers to the same questions.

The Question	Cloud SaaS	Trust Armory
Where your consent records live	The vendor's server	Your own WordPress database
Access if the provider disappears	Frozen - you lose your records	Unaffected - records stay on your site
Who controls the data	The vendor's terms of service	You do
Third-party in your privacy chain	Yes	No
Monthly cost tied to your visitors	Usually	Never
Portability if you switch tools	Export required, formats vary	Already yours - nothing to migrate

The First Question

Who owns your consent data?

When a visitor accepts your cookie banner, they’re trusting you with a record of that consent — not the platform you happen to be using this month.

Cloud consent platforms sit between you and your visitors. Every consent choice passes through a third party before being stored in someone else’s database. If a regulator ever asks for records, you’re dependent on that vendor to hand them over. If the vendor changes its terms, so does your access to your own data.

Trust starts with ownership.

Trust Armory stores every consent record in your own WordPress database. No copy is sent anywhere else — not to us, not to a vendor, not to any third party.

Vendor Risk

What happens when you don't control the platform?

Software companies get acquired. Products get sunset. Pricing changes overnight. Free tiers disappear. Terms of service get rewritten with 30 days’ notice.

When your consent system depends on a third-party service, every one of those events is now your problem — even though you had no say in it.

The failure modes look like:

The vendor gets acquired and the pricing model changes
The service goes offline for a day — your banner stops working with it
A regulator asks for consent records the vendor has already deleted
You want to switch tools but the export format is incompatible
The product gets sunset and you're given 90 days to migrate everything

With

, none of this is your problem.

The plugin lives on your site. Your consent records live in your database. If Trust Armory ever stopped shipping updates, the data you’ve already collected stays exactly where it is — yours, and readable, forever.

The Implementation

Trust comes from knowing where your data lives.

Trust Armory is a plain WordPress plugin. Not a WordPress plugin that phones home. Not a WordPress plugin that syncs to a dashboard. Just a plugin.

That means:

The consent banner is rendered from your own server
The consent audit log lives in your own database tables
Site scans run locally on your install
Recovery points are stored on your own site.
Policy documents are pages inside your WordPress — you own them like any other content

Nothing leaves your site because there’s nothing to leave. There is no cloud platform, no external dashboard, and no third-party service holding your records. The plugin is the product, and the product runs where you run it.

Common Questions

Answers About Trust, Ownership and Control.

Isn't cloud hosting more convenient?

For the vendor, yes. For you, the trade-off is real: convenience comes at the cost of ownership. Trust Armory is designed so you get the convenience of a plugin (install, configure, done) without ever handing over your data.

What if I switch WordPress hosts?

Your consent records move with your site. Because everything lives inside your WordPress database and uploads directory, a standard site migration takes Trust Armory’s data with it — no separate export, no re-linking, no vendor to notify.

Isn't storing data on my server less secure?

Your server has one owner. A cloud vendor’s server has thousands of tenants and a much larger attack surface. Whichever tool you use, the security fundamentals are the same: keep WordPress updated, use strong passwords, and back up regularly — Trust Armory helps with the last one.

What happens if Trust Armory stops being developed?

Nothing happens to the records you’ve already collected. Consent records remain in your database, policies remain WordPress pages, and recovery points remain on your site. Because the data is already yours, you don’t lose access if the vendor disappears.

Does self-hosted mean slower?

The consent banner is a small JavaScript file served from your own site — usually faster than pulling one from a third-party CDN, because your visitors’ browsers are already talking to your server. The plugin doesn’t add analytics calls or external requests.

Can I export my data if I want to leave Trust Armory?

You never need to — it’s already yours. Trust starts with ownership, and your records already live on your site. Consent records are rows in your own database. Policies are pages in your own site. Recovery points are stored in your own uploads folder. If you uninstall the plugin tomorrow, everything you’ve collected stays intact.

Compliance that stays yours.

Install Trust Armory and see what self-hosted feels like — all your consent data, all your protection, entirely on your own site.