MAGENTO 1 GDPR COOKIE EXTENSION

The one big difference between this and many other cookie extensions is that ours actually disables third party cookies, most others do not.

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The ICO state:
"Users should be able to disable cookies, and you should make this easy to do."

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Many companies are just adding a section to their website telling customers that they can disable cookies in their browser. For ecommerce sites we need some essential cookies running for the site to work and so disabling cookies in the browser is very bad practice. 

 

We believe our extension:

• Gives the customer the right options for them.

• Is what the ICO are trying to achieve.

• Is good practice that should become the default for all cookie notices.

 

 

Essential cookies: Some cookies are essential to the running of the website and these we do not need to gain consent for.

 

Third party cookies: such as Google Analytics and other tracking cookies, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo etc. are not essential and these we do need to gain consent for.

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Our extension will assume consent of the essential cookies and give the customer the option of turning off the third party cookies. If they choose to turn these off then they will actively be disabled.

 

As part of our work the essential and third party cookies will be split and the extension will then turn the third party cookies off if consent is not given, this will inevitably mean that some functionality in the site will not work - such as videos linked to Youtube.

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These options will be manageable within a new Privacy page in the My Account section that is installed within our Consent Extension.