New EU Data Blockage Will Not Affect CookieScript
On December 1, the Wiesbaden Administrative Court in Germany issued an unprecedented decision stating that companies can’t use a cookie management provider that is relying on a service based in the United States to collect data. However, such a decision will not affect CookieScript and its customers.
Opt-In vs Opt-Out: What You Should Know
When to opt-in and opt-out? How to stay GDPR consent with your Cookie Banner? CookieScript answers all the questions on how opting in or out works and how your decision can influence the usage of your data.
What are Tracking Cookies?
What are Tracking Cookies and cross-site tracking? CookieScript explains how websites track users and use their personal information to optimize advertisements — read how you can generate a Cookie Policy for your website using a Cookie Banner from CookieScript.
Do I Need Cookie Policy for My Website?
Even on the internet, there are rules and CookieScript explains how to stick by them — read about the meaning of Cookie Policy and why your website needs it if you want to be compliant with major data privacy laws.
What is Consent Management Platform (CMP) and How Does it Work?
In this article, Cookie Script will help you understand the process of a Consent Management Platform and why you should have a CMP for your website — if you want to comply with all the latest data privacy laws.
Updates On Cookie Use & Data Protection Around The World
With data protection rules constantly changing and being updated, it’s important to keep a finger on the pulse. Here are the most notable updates and news stories on data protection from around the world.
Sharing Cookie Banners Between Accounts
Web Agencies are one of CookieScript target audiences. The most requested functionality for such customers is the possibility to share a banner with a client. This would allow agencies to still have control over all the Cookie Consent Banners and give the client the ability to either monitor statistics or adjust banner settings.
The IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF)
CookieScript is a registered Consent Management Platform at IAB. We offer full integration with the latest version of IAB Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) 2.2.
Google Analytics Data and Privacy Regulations
It’s critical for businesses to monitor their website traffic as closely as possible and to understand the various trends that can shape their business. This, after all, is how companies can make more informed decisions.
How to Add YouTube Videos Without Cookies?
Businesses, media outlets, and bloggers commonly embed YouTube videos into their websites. However, YouTube uses Third-Party Cookies so these videos may not comply with the GDPR. Read the blog to learn how to embed YouTube video with no cookies.
Google Consent Mode
Google Consent Mode launched in September 2020 as a way for the search engine to maintain its robust digital advertisement business while attending to the growing need for consumer privacy in the wake of an increased number of data breaches.
Cookie Consent on Multilingual Website
Having a multilingual website might be challenging, especially if some parts of the website keep updating. But worry no more, CookieScript is a hassle-free automated Cookie Consent solution that is designed to take care of such challenges and supports 42 languages.
Automatic Third-Party Cookies Blocking
CookieScript now uses some advanced technologies that allow blocking any third-party scripts without editing actual third-party script codes.
How to Check Website Cookies in Chrome and Firefox
Are you curious about what cookies are running on your website? CookieScript’s Cookie Scanner is a popular cookie inspector tool. You can also perform a manual check using your favorite web browser.
Website Tracking
To those who have never heard of website tracking, it might seem like magic that an ad will appear on a website unrelated to a product they previously viewed. Many websites track the behavior of users so they can be targeted (and re-targeted) for advertising purposes. It’s an effective marketing trick, but it does raise some privacy concerns.
Cookie Consent: What You Should Know
Cookies are tremendously helpful to both web users and businesses, but they do present unique privacy concerns. To keep web users safe, the EU implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR establishes and enforces rules on how online data may be collected, stored, and shared.
HttpOnly Cookies
Most who are unfamiliar with ‘HttpOnly’ cookie flags only discover the term during a security check of their website. If you're completely new to what this cookie flag is (and what it does for your website), CookieScript is here to fill you in with the details.
A Complete Guide to Cookie Privacy Banner
In this article, CookieScript will help you understand the purpose of Cookie Consent banners and why you should have a Cookie Banner on your website — even if you don’t have a physical presence in the EU.
All You Need to Know About Third-Party Cookies
Third-Party Cookies are cookies set by a website other than the one you are currently browsing. Read on to learn more about Third-Party Cookies and why these may soon be disappearing from the web.
What is a Cookie Bot?
Do you know if your favorite websites are tracking you with cookies? If you answered in the negative, you might want to try a cookie bot. Cookie bots are essentially code-scanning web applets that sift through lines of HTML code to gain insights into what cookies are used by the websites you visit.
Automatic Monthly Cookie Scanning
We live in a quickly changing world and websites are one of the things that get updated more often. New functionality and features are added and removed, which in many cases affect what cookies are used by your website.
How Cookie Scanner Works?
Cookie Scanner is a tool created by CookieScript, it allows you to scan your website cookies. In addition, Cookie Scanner will automatically group cookies by categories and add a description to all known cookies.
Cookie Declaration Inside Cookie Consent Banner
Cookie Declaration table is an important feature that allows you to notify website users about what cookies are actually used on the website.
SameSite Cookie Attribute Explained
SameSite cookie attribute is used by browsers to identify how cookies should be handled. In this article, CookieScript explains all the aspects of SameSite attribute in details.
How to Geographically Target Cookie Compliance
CookieScript comes with a handy feature to geographically target the Cookie Banner or even show different banners to users from different countries.
How to Record and Download Visitor Cookie Consents?
CookieScript allows you to collect, record, and download website users' Cookie Consent. Consent recording can be enabled for each item individually.
How to Block Third-Party Cookies?
In today's world almost every website uses some kind of third-party services like Google Analytics, Facebook like buttons, or any other third-party service provider.
Explicit or Implied Cookie Consent Mode
There are 2 main modes of CookieScript depending on how strict you want it to be and it's called Consent mode.
Download and Host JavaScript Files
Sometimes it is faster and more reliable to store JavaScript files on your own server, usually same place as the website itself. This also allows web developers to edit JavaScript files directly and make changes on the fly.
Auto Accept Cookie Policy
Some of our CookieScript Spanish users have requested a new functionality that can be used according to the Spanish cookie law. In Spain, the law provides that after a certain time since the pop-up is displayed the acceptance of cookies is considered implicit.