Strictly necessary cookies are vital for websites to perform their actions and have little to do with tracking. Strictly necessary cookies (also known as essential cookies) allow core website functionality such as user login and account management. Most websites that require users to log in would not work properly without strictly necessary cookies. Such cookies might store user settings and even provide security for websites.

What Strictly Necessary Cookies are Used For?

Strictly necessary cookies are essential for websites to provide basic functions or to access particular features of it. Such features include the ability to sign in, add items to your cart in an online store, or purchase stuff on the internet.

Essential cookies usually are first-party cookies, also called “session cookies”. However, they must not be confused with functionality cookies that are used to enhance the performance of websites. Functional cookies are not vital for a website to run, but they allow to remember important information and user’s preferences. Information can include login data, location, language, and enhanced content.

Meanwhile essential cookies let users go back and forth between websites without losing their previous actions.

Most importantly, strictly necessary cookies do not require user consent – all cookie laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Law (CCPA) allow essential cookies to be exempt from collecting user consent before performing their actions.

If you want to find out whether or not you need consent from your visitors, enter your address below and use the unique Cookie Scanner from CookieScript that will reveal what cookies are present on your website, including strictly necessary cookies.

How to Disclose Website Cookies?

However, some cookie laws do require that websites must keep their users informed about essential cookies being present and they need to explain their purpose. With a Cookie Banner from CookieScript, it is easy to do that.

CookieScript scans your website cookies, groups them, and lists all the important information on your website’s Cookie Banner. This is how you can stay compliant with all the latest data privacy laws worldwide.

Especially, when strictly necessary cookies are used by most websites, it is likely that they are present on your unique address as well. For example, essential cookies save your user’s shopping cart if you run an online store or enable the log-in option for users to access additional content that your website is hiding.

On your website’s Cookie Banner, there should be information about the type of cookies your website is dropping. The best way to do that is to choose a cookie manager to work with. CookieScript has a unique Cookie Banner to work with and in that way, your website can remain compliant with all the privacy laws worldwide, such as the GDPR and CCPA.

Your Best Cookie Management Solution

If you want a GDPR-compliant consent management solution that will analyze and group your strictly necessary cookies, choose CookieScript. It is one of the best cookie managers in the market and it supports most content management platforms worldwide.

Even if you don’t need user consent for essential cookies, CookieScript automatically analyzes your website and lists cookies in your cookie declaration so users can read the information inside your cookie banner and be aware of what cookies are present on your site.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Strictly Necessary Cookies?

Strictly necessary cookies (also known as essential cookies) allow core website functionality such as user login and account management. Most websites that require users to log in would not work properly without strictly necessary cookies. Most data privacy laws worldwide ask for websites to list strictly necessary cookies in their cookie declarations. Learn how to create one with CookieScript.

Are Google Analytics Cookies Strictly Necessary?

Google Analytics cookies are not strictly necessary, therefore, you should receive user consent before dropping them on your visitors’ browsers, as required by all the latest data privacy regulations worldwide. A solid consent management provider like CookieScript automatically scans your website cookies every month and adapts your Cookie Consent banner accordingly.