Rights Orchestration
Right to Access returns basic information about the data subject, including email and name. Right to Delete removes the data subject from every mailing list they're on.
Ketch and Mailgun
Know upfront which capability works out of the box, and which one needs a short development step first, rather than discovering the difference mid-project.
About Mailgun
Mailgun measures the business impact of email campaigns through analytics and deliverability tracking across major desktop clients. Rights fulfillment against Mailgun works immediately once connected. Consent orchestration is different: it requires translating the consent choices captured in a CMP into an identifier format Mailgun can actually use, which takes a short amount of additional development work rather than being purely configuration.
Ketch is upfront about that distinction rather than treating both capabilities as equally plug-and-play.
Capabilities
How Ketch works with Mailgun
The Ketch Mailgun integration covers Consent Orchestration and Rights Orchestration (Right to Delete, Right to Access).The one real setup distinction: rights orchestration works without additional development. Consent orchestration requires translating consent choices from the CMP into an identifier Mailgun can understand, which needs some development work on the customer side, typically coordinated with a Ketch customer success lead.
Consent Orchestration
Adds an opted-out person's email to a global unsubscribe list, which Mailgun then uses to exclude them from further email marketing across any list they're still subscribed to; opting back in removes them from that global unsubscribe list.
With Ketch, teams can
- Fulfill Right to Access and Right to Delete requests against Mailgun immediately, without extra development work
- Use a global unsubscribe list mechanism for consent, which Mailgun applies across every list a person is subscribed to at once
- Plan for the additional development step consent orchestration requires, rather than assuming it's configuration-only like rights fulfillment
The gap
The problem this integration solves
Rights and consent don't always require the same amount of setup effort, and assuming they do risks a stalled rollout:
01. Assuming consent orchestration is purely a configuration task, when it actually requires a development step to bridge Ketch's identifiers to Mailgun's, can stall a project unexpectedly
02. A global unsubscribe list needs to actually apply across every list a person is on, not just the one they most recently interacted with
03. Manually keeping a global unsubscribe list current doesn't scale to real opt-out volume
Ketch resolves the first by stating the development requirement plainly upfront, and the second and third by handling the global unsubscribe mechanism automatically once set up.
Why Ketch
Why teams choose Ketch for Mailgun privacy compliance
Permissioning infrastructure that governs Mailgun the same way it governs every other system in your stack — not a one-off connector bolted onto a banner.
Honest about setup effort
Rights fulfillment works immediately; consent orchestration's additional development requirement is stated plainly rather than glossed over.
A global unsubscribe mechanism, not a per-list patchwork
Opt-outs apply across every list a person is subscribed to in one action.
Backed by enforcement precedent
The California Attorney General reached a $1.55 million settlement with Healthline Media over sharing sensitive data with advertisers without valid consent, a reminder that email delivery platforms carry real exposure when consent isn't actually enforced across every list it should reach.
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