Plugin / Cookiebot | GDPR Compliant Cookie Consent and Notice

Description

Trustworthy and easy GDPR/ePR compliant cookie consent

Cookiebot is a cloud-driven solution that enables full cookie compliance, offering:

• A highly customizable consent banner to handle consents and give the users the possibility to opt-in and -out of cookie categories, as required by the GPDR, ePrivacy Directive and similar legislations around the world.
• An automatically generated and updated cookie policy and cookie declaration, with purpose descriptions and categorization of your cookies (Necessary, Statistics, Preferences, Marketing).
• Full monthly website scan, detecting all first and third party cookies and similar tracking on your site (e.g. HTML5 Local Storage, Flash Local Shared Object, Silverlight Isolated Storage, IndexedDB, ultrasound beacons, pixel tags etc.) as well as their provenance, duration and where to the data is sent.
• The unique Cookiebot feature of automatic cookie blocking. All cookies and tracking are automatically held back right from the moment the user lands on the website and until the proper consent has been obtained, enabling compliance with the GDPR and ePrivacy requirement for “prior consent”.
• An easy way to allow the users to change or withdraw their consent.
• Translations for 44 languages and the ability to change the text on the banner and cookie declaration for any language.
• Storage of user consents in our cloud-driven environment, which are downloadable and can be used as proof that the consent was given.
• Execution of cookie-setting scripts without a page reload, if the user gives consent.

Please read our FAQ at the bottom of the page for more information.

Will my website become compliant once I install Cookiebot?

If you use our plugin version 3.0 or later and chose our automatic implementation, Cookiebot enables full compliance with the ‘prior consent’ requirement of the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive (ePR) and similar legal instruments for protection of user data around the world.

The default consent banner has the strictest settings possible and is suitable for obtaining consent under both GDPR and the ePR. Make sure to adapt the consent banner content to fit your website. You should also check out our GDPR checklist. If you are using server-side cookies, please check the “Server side usage” guide.

However, being a customizable plugin, true compliance always depends on the website owner choosing a type of banner, wording and settings that are compliant with the local legislation and fits the specific website and company (controller).

If you choose the manual implementation…

Then please make sure of the following:

If you are using plugins that set cookies which require consent (which most do), you have to:

• Ask the plugin developers if they are planning on becoming GDPR compliant, or if they would like to integrate with Cookiebot.
• Check if there already exists an addon for your plugin in the “Prior consent” submenu.
• Check out our Github repository, where we are developing integrations for Cookiebot, until the plugin developers choose to do this themselves, or if WP Core enables such functionality

Once Cookiebot is installed, and we’ve scanned your site, you can check the cookie report, to identify all cookies being set on your website. If the cookies are coming from content that you have inserted manually, you can mark up that content as described in our manual implementation guide step 4.

Embedded videos and iframes which set cookies can be marked up as explained in our Iframe cookie consent with YouTube example.

Cookiebot Addons

Add-ons are produced by an open-source community of developers. This is done to help make it easier for WordPress users to implement ‘prior consent’ for cookies and trackers set by plugins that do not offer this as a built-in functionality.

The add-ons are currently the best alternative to a WordPress Core framework that can signal the user’s consent state to other plugins (if and when this will be implemented is unknown) and to those plugins who do not yet offer native support for Cookiebot built into the plugin itself.

We do not assume any responsibility for the use of these add-ons. If one of the plugins that the add-ons hook into makes a ‘breaking change’, there may be a period of time where the add-on will not work properly until it has been updated to accommodate the changes in the plugin.

If your favourite plugin isn’t supported you’re welcome to contribute or request on our Github development page.

Copyright and Trademarks

Cookiebot is a registered trademark of Cybot A/S