When visiting a website for the first time, you may notice a banner that tells you about the site using trackers and cookies to improve the user experience. That notice is called GDPR Cookie Consent and it is an important part of a website if the users are from the European region.
The GDPR has made it mandatory for site owners to inform users about the personal data the site collects. This allows users to disable unnecessary cookies that collect data for tracking and advertising purposes.
There are dozens of cookie notification plugins and custom codes available on the internet, of which Cookiebot stands out due to its amazing features and its ability to scan cookies and trackers on your domain.
In this article, we will write about Cookiebot’s features and the installation process on your website. Be sure to read the article to the end to get a feel for the topic.
Cookiebot is a cloud service cookie tool written by Cybot that provides businesses, blogs, and e-commerce sites with a simple and direct way to learn more about cookies. It is a self-service cloud service and online consent tracking solution that follows the EU Digital Privacy Directorate regulations 2009/136/EC and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
It also helps you understand what type of data your site collects from the user and whether it is compliant with GDPR regulations and the Privacy Directive (ePR). In simpler words, it is a GDPR compliant cookie and online tracking tool.
- Details about cookies on your site
- Confirmation of visitors on your site before storing cookies and trackers on their devices
- An option to opt out of cookies and trackers
- An option to change the choice in the future.
Cookiebot is more than just a cookie notice. As mentioned above, it provides detailed information about the type of cookies on a website and allows visitors to choose whether or not to store cookies on their system. It comes with a lot of features, let’s take a closer look at Cookiebot’s features.
- Scan cookies automatically
- Cookie repository
- GDPR consent banner
- Control over cookies
- multiple domains
- multilingual support
- SSL encryption
- hassle-free setup
Cookiebot performs automatic scanning once a month and audits the website by finding cookies in (HTTP/JavaScript cookies, HTML5 local storage, Flash local shared object, Silverlight isolated storage, indexed database, ultrasound beacons, pixel tags) and then generates a cookie statement with a short description of the cookies scanned on the website.
You can then publish the cookie report to the entire site or to a subpage by inserting a small JavaScript code on the specific page or to the entire website. Therefore, a cookie consent banner will be displayed to the visitor for the first time and will allow them to decide whether to store cookies on the system or reject them.
The Cookiebot repository has information on all global cookies with detailed descriptions and their purpose. Whenever these cookies are found on your website, the cookie bot pulls the information from the repository and describes the use of the cookie to your visitors.
The most important thing is to display a cookie notice on your website. With a short JavaScript code, you can display the cookie banner on your website and allow visitors to choose whether or not to allow cookies to be stored on the system.
When submitting the choices, cookiebot remembers them for a maximum of 12 months, and after that it will display the cookie consent banner once more for the same visitor.
Another amazing thing about Cookiebot is that it allows you to decide which cookies should be on your site. You don’t have to let your visitors decide which cookies to store and which to reject, Cookiebot gives the user the facility to choose between four types of cookies among several hundred cookie providers.
Additionally, Cookiebot ensures that all necessary cookies are reserved prior to user consent and allows users to choose before storing unnecessary cookies. You can also restrict first-party and third-party cookies and trackers on your site.
In the cookie manager, you can find the URL of the first discovered cookie, which simplifies the process of identifying script configuration cookies.
If you operate multiple websites from different domains and/or your website operates from multiple subdomains, Cookiebot may ask your website visitors for consent that covers all of your domains.
If you manage multiple websites across different domains and want consent from one visitor for all websites, Cookiebot will handle that for you. You just have to enable the feature and the consent banner will be requested only once each time the visitor visits the website.
If you have visitors from different regions of the world, you can customize the cookie consent banner depending on the region. There are 45 languages available at the moment and the cookiebot automatically detects the user’s default language and displays consent in the user’s preferred language.
All visitor consents are collected via a secure SSL connection and stored with unbreakable encrypted keys.
There is no need to install a plugin on your website, all you need to do is copy and paste a cookie manager JavaScript code to a specific page on your site or the entire website. After pasting the code, the GDPR cookie consent banner will start displaying to new site visitors.
You can try Cookiebot on your small blog or site that has fewer than 100 subpages. With the free plan, you can set up a cookie bot on your site, but most features in the free plan are blocked. Anyway, let’s go through the procedure for setting up Cookiebot on your website.
- You must first create an account on the Cookiebot website and activate it with the activation key that will be sent to your email.
- Go to the registration page and create an account. Now look in your mailbox for the activation key and enter it in the text field.
- Now add the domain you want to scan for cookies. Please note that the scanning procedure will take some time depending on the size of your website. It takes about 6 to 24 hours for a full scan; in my case, it took less than 2 hours.
- Click the dialog box option from the menu. From the template settings, choose where you want to display the banner on your website.
- To add the script to your site, select “your scripts” and copy the JavaScript code.
- Now you need to paste this code inside the section from your website. If you are using WordPress, you can do this with the theme editor or by using a free plugin called “insert header and footer”.
- Save the changes made, and that’s all you need to do.
- You can clear your website cache if you are using a cache plugin and open your website in incognito mode to check whether the banner started displaying or not.
Cookiebot’s pricing depends on the number of pages your site has and the number of domains you want to set up Cookiebot on. Cookiebot considers subdomains as separate domains since its system scans subdomains separately.
If you want to try Cookiebot for free, you can add only one domain with less than 100 pages where premium features like Customize banner, Customize statement, multiple languages, email reports, data export, geolocation, bulk consent, consent statistics, Internal domain aliases for development, testing, and staging are blocked.
The pricing table below will give you a complete idea of the available plans.
Cookiebot is a feature-packed cookie consent plugin that scans your website and lists cookies and trackers based on their nature with detailed information. It is important that users know what kind of data will be collected from them and for what purposes.
With a simple cookie consent banner, you can let your users decide whether they want the site to store cookies on their system or not.
Talking about the price and plan, Cookiebot performs monthly scans on your website to find out cookies and trackers. This helps you keep track of cookies on your website, which can also be done with the free plan but with many features blocked.
Overall, Cookiebot’s price is justified if we take a close look at the features it offers. It is more than just a cookie banner plugin and is worth every penny spent.
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Source: SCHOOL TRANG DAI
