WordPress EU Cookies Bar – General Data Protection Regulation Compliance

WordPress cookie consent

Eu Cookies Bar is a WordPress plugin that helps website owners to meet the obligations and rights enacted under the GDPR. GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, is a European regulation to strengthen and unify the data protection of EU citizens. The plugin allows visitors to accept a website to use their cookies and also allow visitors to configure their cookies settings. WordPress EU Cookies Bar helps your WordPress website fit with the GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation law.

General

• Agreement duration: Set expiry date for an agreement after a user accepts.
• Block until accepting: An option to enable cookies only after visitor accepts to use, for those who want their website complies with the new EU Cookies Law-GDPR.
• Strictly necessary cookies: Specify very important cookies that can not be disabled by your visitors.
• Strictly necessary cookies prefix: Cookies whose names start with these prefixes can not be disabled by your visitors too.
• Your privacy policy: This is to let your visitors know what your website uses cookies for beside a list of cookies that your website uses.

Cookies bar

• Message: Easy to change/edit front-end message with WordPress editor.
• Button decline: Let your visitors able to accept or decline your privacy policy, this is one of what GDPR requires.
• Close button: Just another option.
• Cookies bar position: Can be at the top, bottom, bottom left or bottom right, not many but enough.
• Implicit behaviors: Close cookies bar, accept or decline when your visitors hit the close button, scroll their mouse wheel or refresh the browser. Depending on which cookies/privacy law you have to comply with, use this option flexibly to make the cookies bar less annoyed.
• Cookies bar design: You can change cookies bar font-size, text color, background color or opacity to make it in harmony with your theme, and a custom CSS field is available for your customization.

Visitor cookies settings

• GDPR law requires your website to have an option to have visitor cookies settings.
• This is a small popup box that shows your privacy and cookies policy and a list of available cookies that your website uses
• Visitors can view and edit to accept which cookies on the list whenever they want, even before or after they accept to use cookies
• A very small bar on the bottom which will show the visitors cookies settings when they click on it, and also a helpful shortcode “your text” to call the cookies settings which you can place wherever you want in case you don’t want the small bar to be there