Plugin / Cookiebot | GDPR Compliant Cookie Consent and Notice

Cybot A/S
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cookiebot is a freemium plugin, much like Jetpack and Monsterinsights. Whether the free plan can suffice or you need a premium plan, depends on two things: 1. The size of your website, i.e. the number of subpages on your website. In other words, you cannot choose whether you want a free plan or a premium plan, as this is determined by the amount of subpages on your website. You can get a quote to see what plan you need for your website. 2. Your necessities, as the free plan does not include all features available in the premium plans. The free plan does not include customization of banner and cookies declaration, multiple languages, e-mail reports, data-export, geo location, bulk consent, consent statistics, internal domain alias for development, test and staging. If more than 100 subpages are found during the initial website scan, you will be given a free one-month trial of Cookiebot with full functionality. See all details of Cookiebot plans and pricing.
Your pricing plan is dependent on the number of subpages we have detected on your website. Some users mistakenly think that Cookiebot counts their image files as subpages, thus setting the users on a higher subscription plan. Cookiebot does not count image files as subpages. Depending on your theme, WordPress may automatically create real pages for content placed in your media library, called Attachment pages. Because these pages can contain online trackers, Cookiebot includes them in your page count. To disable the Attachment page feature in WordPress, please see the following guides: https://themeskills.com/disable-media-attachment-pages-wordpress/ https://www.wpexplorer.com/disable-image-page/
The Cookiebot solution also includes an automatically updated cookie declaration about the cookies in use on your site. By implementing it, you ensure that your cookie declaration is specific and accurate at all times, as required by the GDPR. Also, the declaration automatically provides the mandatory options for the user to change or withdraw consent. To display your cookie declaration, create a new page on your website – and add the shortcode that the plugin provides to the page: [cookie_declaration]. Alternatively, you can incorporate it into e.g. your existing Privacy Policy. By default, the cookie declaration is displayed in the chosen Cookiebot language. You are able to override this setting with a “lang” attribute in the shortcode. Eg.: [cookie_declaration lang=”de”] for a German version. Remember to add all used languages in the Cookiebot Manager.
If you are in doubt about what cookies are in use on our site, you can start by trying our free compliance test: Test my site The test scans up to five pages of your website and sends you a complete report of the cookies and online tracking on these pages, including information on their provenance, purpose and whether or not they are compliant with EU-legislation. If you want a complete overview of the cookies and online tracking going on on all of your website, sign up to the Cookiebot solution.
The GDPR is the General Data Protection Regulation, an EU-law enforced since May 2018, that protects EU citizens’ personal data globally and affects all organizations and websites that handle such data. If you have a website with users from the EU, and if your websites uses cookies (it probably does), then you need to make your use of cookies and tracking compliant with the GDPR. See the EU homepage of the GDPR for more information, and their infographic for businesses: Data Protection: Better rules for small businesses The ePrivacy Directive is another legal instrument of the EU that specifically aims to protect EU citizens’ online data such as data from online communication. It is in the process of becoming an actual Regulation such as the GDPR, which will probably happen in 2020.
If your favourite plugin doesn’t support Cookiebot you are always welcome to ask the author to add support for Cookiebot. Send an e-mail to the author of the plugin you want to support Cookiebot. Ask for adding support for Cookiebot. Cookiebot provides a helper function to check if there is an active, working version of Cookiebot on the website. The easiest way for a developer to implement Cookiebot support is following to add a check for Cookiebot where tags are outputted to the visitor. This can be done following way $scriptTag = ”; if(function_exists(‘cookiebot_active’) && cookiebot_active()) { $scriptTag = ‘’; } The developer of the plugin can see more details on our Github repository
Cookiebot works with GTM, however you need to enable the “Hide Cookie Popup” option on the Cookiebot plugin settings page. Please see our article on how to deploy Cookiebot with GTM.

Ratings

4.2
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Details Information

Version

3.3.0

First Released

22 Dec, 2017

Total Downloads

907,193

Wordpress Version

4.4 or higher

Tested up to:

5.2.4

Require PHP Version:

5.6 or higher

Tags

compliance cookie eu Europe GDPR

Contributors

cookiebot phpgeekdk aytac Richard kh1987 bmlcybot

Languages

Danish Dutch Dutch (Belgium) English (US)

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