• Resolved johnpeat

    (@johnpeat)


    It strikes me that leaving the notice/accept button visible util the user ‘ACCEPT’s it, is going to annoy people – it may cover stuff they want to read – it may seem like nagging??

    A Reject button means setting a (temporary) cookie to indicate a user has declined cookies tho – some people think that’s not allowed?

    Someone who’s blocking cookies will still be nagged of course – no way to stop that at all?

    Ironically, the EU’s own internal website has a page of rules on cookies which – to my eyes – don’t reflect the GDPR’s take at all

    https://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm

    I’d love to know what the developer’s think of that/this issue because it’s making my head hurt…

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  • Plugin Author Moove Agency

    (@mooveagency)

    Hi there,

    Thanks for your feedback and for using our plugin!

    It strikes me that leaving the notice/accept button visible util the user ‘ACCEPT’s it, is going to annoy people – it may cover stuff they want to read – it may seem like nagging??

    It will likely annoy users but that’s what we need to do in order to comply with GDPR.

    A Reject button means setting a (temporary) cookie to indicate a user has declined cookies tho – some people think that’s not allowed?

    Our understanding is that this is not allowed. No cookie should be stored on users computers unless they specifically allow it.

    Disclaimer: we strongly recommend you to seek an independent legal advice on the implementation of GDPR.

    Sorry we can’t be of more help on this.

    Moove Agency team.

    I also would like to see an optional decline button or option.

    I think it is fine to store functional cookies without consent as long as you mention it in your privacy policy.

    Thread Starter johnpeat

    (@johnpeat)

    I’ve read-up a fair bit on this as well as looking at what other sites/plugins/tools are doing and I’d say you CAN have a Reject Button and you ARE allowed to set a cookie to ‘remember’ that choice so long as you make it clear you’re doing that (and why – e.g. to stop bugging them to Accept)

    The ‘user has rejected cookies’ cookie would be an ‘essential’ cookie – one required for the site to function – it’s not ‘tracking’ them and only stores their desire to NOT track them (a core concept in the GDPR!)

    A Reject option is a better solution than permanently offering an Accept button – that seems like annoying people in the hope they’ll Accept just to get rid of the box…

    End of the day we need practical solutions – a permanent question, massive Privacy Policy and/or lists of 100s of partner/cookies isn’t helpful to anyone, however ‘compliant’ it might be.

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