Embedding a Vimeo video or YouTube video in EU

  • Hello,

    Embedding a Vimeo video or YouTube video in a website, legal basis within the EU!

    Embedding a Vimeo video or YouTube video into a website is not readily permitted. When your visitor visits a page where the video is embedded, cookies are set and personal information about it is collected. The collected information may subsequently be used for advertising purposes. The setting of such non-essential cookies in the normal case, however, not allowed without consent.

    Obtaining the visitor’s consent to the setting of non-essential cookies in a legally compliant manner is best implemented with the help of the opt-in procedure. Basically, you can remember that the setting of such cookies and the collection, storage and further processing of personal data may not normally take place without the active and informed consent of the user.

    Should you decide to disregard this and embed Vimeo or YouTube videos into your website without complying with this requirement, you are committing data protection violations. As a result, you can expect hefty fines!

    I guess there would have to be consent like OpenStreetmap?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Author pluginsware

    (@pluginsware)

    Hi Mirko,

    Thanks for bringing this to our notice. We will fix this in our immediate next version.

    Thanks

    Plugin Author pluginsware

    (@pluginsware)

    Hi,

    Actually, we are working on our next version and while checking the Vimeo/YouTube video, we are getting the user consent like the Map. So we assume that you would have checked this by logging in to the site. In this case, we already get the cookie consent from the user while login in and won’t get it again for the video. If you are not getting the user consent for the guest users, please submit a ticket on our site https://pluginsware.com/submit-a-ticket/ with your site link where you face this problem.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter dinosaurier

    (@dinosaurier)

    Hello,
    if you enter the map (openstreetmap) and a video you can not distinguish which is what, for both it says: “Show map”, does not look very good in this form …
    Screenshot:
    https://bilderupload.org/bild/9ce335939-video-karte

    Thanks

    Thread Starter dinosaurier

    (@dinosaurier)

    it also makes no sense 2x the same text for different applications read Maps and Video, why then open an extra ticket?
    thank you

    Plugin Author pluginsware

    (@pluginsware)

    Yes, we can differentiate the applications by adding a different text for them or by adding a poster image for the video.

    But, giving consent to either one of the applications also gives access to the other. Is this OK? Or do you expect them to work individually? If yes, the video could be either from Vimeo or YouTube. So, different companies. Should we get consent for each of them individually?

    The key logic here is to inform the visitor that the content behind the message belongs to a third party and it uses cookies. So, we request their consent to store the cookie from them. I don’t think that a general visitor would care if it’s a YouTube, Vimeo, Google Map, or Openstreet Map. This is the reason we thought a common message for both applications is enough.

    Sorry, I’m not from the EU. So, I may be wrong. I’m just looking to make myself more clear before doing any changes to this feature. Please let me know your thoughts.

    Thread Starter dinosaurier

    (@dinosaurier)

    Hello,

    Or do you expect them to work individually? YES

If yes, the video could be either from Vimeo or YouTube. So, different companies. Should we get consent for each of them individually? YES

The key logic here is to inform the visitor that the content behind the message belongs to a third party and it uses cookies. So, we request their consent to store the cookie from them. YES Absolutely

    Thanks

    Thread Starter dinosaurier

    (@dinosaurier)

    According to the Vimeo website, the provider is Vimeo Inc. based in America. Due to the invalidity of the Privacy Shield and the fact that the USA is an insecure third country, consent is required before loading the Vimeo video script. Cf. Cloud Act, EO12333 and FISA.

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