Generate Cookie / Privacy Policy Page ?

  • Resolved touto

    (@touto)


    2 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    I was wondering if the plugin provides any help with creating a GDPR compliant Cookie or Privacy Policy Page? I currently use Complianz and it generates legal pages, including a Cookie page, that includes legal information, the list of cookies and the option to revoke consent. I want to add Contact Form 7 with reCaptcha to my site and that is why I am interesting in switching as you provide integration for that.

    I know you provide buttons for the following: Change privacy settings, Privacy settings history, Revoke consents.

    Is that all that is required under GDPR if I place those in my Privacy Policy? I.e. a list of the cookies as is implemented by Complianz is not necessary?

    Sorry if there is already a support page on this, I couldn’t find anything conclusive.

    Thank you

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  • Plugin Author devowl.io GmbH

    (@devowl)

    Hi @touto,

    thanks for your request. We must point out that the following statements do not constitute legal advice. Therefore, I can only give you evaluations from our intensive experience with the EU legal regulations in practice and a technical assessment of the situation.

    Real Cookie Banner is currently optimized for the requirements of the legislator in Germany and Austria, which implement the EU directives and regulations.

    It is therefore necessary to give your visitors as easy as consent the possibility to view the history of consent, change consent or revoke it. Currently, according to German data protection authorities’ guidance (German), we assume that you must place the links on each subpage (e.g. in the footer of the website), because placing them in the privacy policy is unreasonably hidden for your website visitors.

    A list of cookies for your privacy policy apart from the history of consents, in which all cookies are also listed, we consider to be unnecessary for Germany and Austria. In other EU countries the situation is different, so this feature is already planned.

    Legal pages such as a privacy policy or an imprint can not generate Real Cookie Banner. We also view Complianz’s approach here critically, since these legal documents must be designed differently in detail from country to country in which you are located as a website operator. Whether Complianz can do this, we can not judge because we are not lawyers for law in the whole EU. However, if you compare documents generated by their tool with comparable documents generated by local lawyers, you will find significant differences in our experience. Therefore, we always advise having these documents prepared by a lawyer or a tool of a lawyer in your respective country.

    I hope these explanations help you out!

    Best regards,

    Jan

    Thread Starter touto

    (@touto)

    Thank you for your helpful comment!

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