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Below is a list that we gathered for you to install on your website to make sure you let users know your website uses cookies. Please don’t take it as a official legal advice, it’s more of a recommendation. Consult a specialist for more details.
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. It keeps track of your movements within the site so that it can remember something about you at a later time.
What? The EU ePrivacy Directive (AKA the Cookie Law) come into force in the UK on 26th May 2012 and elsewhere in Europe shortly afterward to require cookie consent. If you own a website, you will need to get the permission of users before deploying cookies. It was designed to protect online privacy by making users aware of how their information is collected and used online. It’s actually not a new law – the European Union just changed an old law.
Why? There is a penalty disobeying the European Union ePrivacy directive, but as long as you make an effort to comply you are safe.
How? There are two types of consent – explicit and implied. Explicit consent is, where a user must actively click on an accept that it is okay to use cookies for your website. Implied content involves just notifying your visitor that your website uses cookies and if they continue browsing, it is assumed that they’re fine with it.
Simplicity is the most popular aspect of this plugin, as it hardly takes a second to get up and running. Simply install and activate the plugin to automatically add the cookie notification bar without any configuration. It automatically creates and populate a page on your site with the information about your cookie policy and adds a link to the notification bar.
Other Features in the new version 2.0 includes:
It the best and most popular cookie notice WordPress plugin by dFactory. It allows you to elegantly show cookies consent to users to comply with the EU regulations.
The plugin comes with some unique features like customizing, option to accept the cookie on scroll, option to refuse functional cookies, cookie message box positions, WPML and Polylang compatible, translation ready with 16 languages, set cookie expiry.
Following are the list of features.
You can change the colors, fonts, styles, position, and how it behave when clicked ‘accept’ on the page. It has got a Cookie Audit module to show your site users what cookie your site uses neatly in a table on privacy page. There is a show again tab which dismisses the notice or shows it again. The plugin uses implied consent as this approach is aimed at reducing website visitor dropout.
Features:
EU Cookie law has an ability to lock script before acceptance (as required by Italian Law – Garante della Privacy dispositions). It is a powerful solution for your website to comply the European cookie law with an elegant popup. It can automatically block embeds, iframes, scripts and objects.
You can customize it to match it to your website layout and have many options to control behavior before and after acceptance.
Advanced Features
Features
Italy Cookie Choices allow you to block third-party cookies. It complies with the Italy cookie law as well as European cookie law showing the visitors only the first time he visits your website.
Italy cookie choices add only inline CSS and Javascript, so it doesn’t make your website slower. It has got a new Third party cookie eraser to block all the cookies.
Other features
You can choose from the list above the one that fits you best. What’s your favorite plugin to show cookie notice? Did I miss any? Please comment in below.