Purpose of cookie “icwp-wpsf-notbot”?

  • Resolved MrMattEastwood

    (@mrmatteastwood)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hello, Shield team!

    The privacy plugin “Complianz” detects your cookie, “icwp-wpsf-notbot” on pretty much all my website projects. The tool polls cookiedatabase.org for information about the cookie, but comes up empty-handed.

    Would you be able to describe this cookie’s exact function and expiration? Also, does it collect/share any sensitive data about website visitors?

    That way, I’d be able to manually add that information to my projects’ cookie policy. I will also be happy to shoot the Complianz dev team a line so they can add it to their database.

    Thanks!
    Matt.

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  • Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    Hi Matt,

    This cookie stores a visitor’s “state” – i.e. has it registered as a “not a bot”. It doesn’t collect or store any visitor information, nor does it “track” visitor browser activity or details, in any way. Its presence simply indicates that the visitor has indicated to the site that it’s not a bot.

    Hope that helps, but let me know if you have any other questions.

    Thread Starter MrMattEastwood

    (@mrmatteastwood)

    Thanks Paul! So it’s exactly as I suspected ?? The retention time is only the duration of the session?

    Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    It’s not even tied to users/sessions and the retention of the cookie is around ~60s, after which it is reset if required. Its sole purpose is help to detect bots, and optimise that process.

    Thread Starter MrMattEastwood

    (@mrmatteastwood)

    Splendid, thanks!

    Thread Starter MrMattEastwood

    (@mrmatteastwood)

    Hello Paul! I’m noticing another cookie on some of my web projects, “shield-notbot-nonce”. When describing this in my cookie policies, can I say the exact same thing we discussed above?

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