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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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 table is an important feature that allows you to notify website users about what cookies are actually used on the website.

SameSite cookie attribute is used by browsers to identify how first and Third-Party Cookies should be handled. In this article, CookieScript explains all the aspects of SameSite attribute in detail.

CookieScript comes with a handy feature to geographically target the Cookie Banner or even show different banners to users from different countries.

CookieScript allows you to collect, record, and download website users' Cookie Consent. Consent recording can be enabled for each item individually.

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.

There are 2 main modes of CookieScript depending on how strict you want it to be and it's called Consent mode.

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.

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.

A Cookie Banner can be a real hustle if it does not match your existing website design. To make it look nice and clean, we have added custom colors that allow you to style a cookie popup exactly as your website design.

The Cookie Banner Analytics allows you to see all necessary statistics about interactions with the banner elements and Cookie Categories.