Can I disable consent management and use only cookies?

  • Resolved arturholba

    (@arturholba)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    Hello, great job you are doing with this GDPR plugin!

    I am using website not allowing any registration, so it would be enough to have only cookie consent management tool. I wonder if there is a way how to navigate visitor to cookies directly. As the plugin doesn’t allow to enable cookie category by default, I am afraid that most of the visitors will not even register that there are some cookies categories disabled by default.

    It might help to have an enabled / disabled icon in front of the name of category.

    Anyway the best option would be to have a way how to enable a category by default – at least it might solve the situation that using this category is in your legitimate interest and by possibility of disabling it you give the visitor a way how to object it.

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  • Plugin Author Fernando Claussen

    (@fclaussen)

    Hi @arturholba,

    Even though you are not taking registrations, users need to consent to your privacy policies. They might not be registering to the site, but you are collecting data in some way. It can be Analytics, Email Marketing or anything really.

    So no, we cannot disable consent and leave only cookies.

    I kind of like your idea of an additional indicator that the category is enabled or disabled. I’ll take note here for a future release. Do you mind suggesting icons for this?

    Thread Starter arturholba

    (@arturholba)

    so I can set statistical cookies as “always on” and add a consent “analytics” and disable GA code if (! has_consent( 'analytics' )) ?

    as for the icons, I meant simple checkboxes like cookiebot uses

    Thread Starter arturholba

    (@arturholba)

    Actually, GDPR doesn’t need a general consent with “privacy policy”, it requires consent in case you don’t have any other legitimate reason to use the personal data (i.e. legal obligation, legitimate interest, performance of a contract etc.).

    Your tool would be much more valuable and universal if it

    a) merged the consents and cookies together (because cookies section is another consent management)
    b) allowed default enabling the consents (for legitimate interests with potential disabling as a tool of an objection) and
    c) didn’t require general consent with privacy policy

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by arturholba.
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