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  • Resolved mwr220

    (@mwr220)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    A couple of questions about your product / service to help in my buying decision. I have already had an audit run.

    (1) My site is wordpress but do I have to use the WordPress plugin or can I use the normal version of your software from your website and install that on my website myself?

    (2) My aim at the moment is to have none of my cookies tracking personal information so am I able to set that in your system? For example, whilst I use Clicky for web analytics the Ip Address is made anonymous so I don’t need prior consent for this and wouldn’t want your system blocking access to the tracking.

    (3) Despite what I said in (2) one of my systems has to track full ipaddress because it is a security plugin that blocks hackers (wordfence) – I assume I can allow this access without permission needed in your software as it would not make sense to allow visitors to disable my essential security software?

    Thanks for your help

    Mark

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  • Plugin Author cookiebot

    (@cookiebot)

    Hi @mwr220

    Sorry for the late response! We are very busy at the moment.

    (1) My site is wordpress but do I have to use the WordPress plugin or can I use the normal version of your software from your website and install that on my website myself?

    You can use the normal version if you like.

    (2) My aim at the moment is to have none of my cookies tracking personal information so am I able to set that in your system? For example, whilst I use Clicky for web analytics the Ip Address is made anonymous so I don’t need prior consent for this and wouldn’t want your system blocking access to the tracking.

    If you’ve setup your Clicky configuration to not track IP addresses (which are considered personal data), then you do not need consent for this under the GDPR. You could then tag up your Clicky script with “statistics” and have the statistics checkbox pre-checked. Do note that our compliance-scan may say that you are not compliant (not obeying prior consent for tracking cookies). This is because we have no way of checking your Clicky configuration. However, if you are confident that Clicky anonymizes the traffic, then you’re all good.

    (3) Despite what I said in (2) one of my systems has to track full ipaddress because it is a security plugin that blocks hackers (wordfence) – I assume I can allow this access without permission needed in your software as it would not make sense to allow visitors to disable my essential security software?

    Wordfence should now be GDPR compliant. Please see the following articles;

    https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2018/05/wordfence-and-gdpr-how-the-defiant-team-are-preparing-for-gdpr/

    https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2018/05/wordfence-is-gdpr-compliant/

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by cookiebot.
    • This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by cookiebot.

    Perhaps a “no consent needed” category could be usefull for session cookies, media players cookies, piwik, etc…

    Plugin Author cookiebot

    (@cookiebot)

    @networkstudio

    The “necessary” or “preference” categories should suffice for things that are not used for tracking, but thanks for the input.

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