How can visitors change their preferences?

  • I’ve set up the privacy bar and plugin on my personal site, which does not have user registration. I registered the different types of cookies.

    Once a non-logged-in visitor sets their cookie preferences, is there any way they can bring up the privacy bar to change or revoke those settings? The only way I can see is to just delete the gdpr cookies through the browser.

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  • Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    Also, if someone revokes their consent after a cookie is created, does that actually delete the applicable cookies?

    For instance, I have an age verification plugin so that I can limit certain content to adult visitors. It is purely elective — no cookie is placed unless someone accesses the restricted content and completes the verification, at which point it stores a cookie in the browser. If someone completes the verification and then revokes their consent for the age verification cookies, does the existing cookie remain?

    Plugin Support Anthony Moore

    (@amooreto)

    The cookies will be deleted if they update their preferences to block those specific cookies. However, if you do not block these cookies from within your code they will be set again when a user visits the site.

    You will need to alter your code to handle this.

    Here is an example of blocking GA if a user has not consented to those cookies: https://gdpr-wp.com/knowledge-base/enabling-or-disabling-functionality-based-on-consent-and-cookies/

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    Well, that’s what I would like them to be able to do.

    The age verification plugin asks for explicit consent. When a visitor goes to a page that’s age-restricted, the verification screen comes up and says clearly, “This will place a verification cookie on your device.” If they then update their preferences and that cookie goes away, that’s great, but it doesn’t make any sense if updating the preference makes them unable to voluntarily set the verification cookie next time.

    If it did that, the next time they tried to go to an age-restricted page, the verification just wouldn’t work (the plugin would be unable to place the cookie even when the user said okay), and I don’t know how to set it to return an error message beyond just not working. (I didn’t design this plugin and I’m not a developer!) That seems extreme, since the cookie is only being placed through voluntary action.

    Similarly, if they leave a comment and check “Save my name and email,” it’s fine if updating their preferences deletes that cookie, but it seems logical for them to be able to set the cookie again by clicking that box the next time they leave a comment. If the changed preference not only deletes the cookie, but blocks it from being set again, the box will still appear, but it simply won’t work, and a technically illiterate user (like me!) may not know why. Again, that seems unnecessary from a GDPR standpoint. That box isn’t pre-checked or required, so I’m not making them save that information and they’re perfectly free to leave a comment without it if they want.

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