Tab 6: Settings
In Settings tab of the Cookie Opt-In Extension you will find further settings for the Cookie Consent.
Unified Cookie Name
Unchecking this box would result in separate configurations for each language and site root. This means that visitors would have to select their preferences for each language and site root.
Cookie Lifetime
You can also adjust the runtime of our cookie. After this time has elapsed, users will be prompted again to enter the Cookie Consent. The default setting is 12 months; however, you can adjust this period. Furthermore, in the checkbox next to it, you can specify that for visitors who accept only essential cookies, the lifetime of our cookie is limited to the current session only. In addition, you can set the cookie consent to be displayed again after a certain time to users who have not selected all cookie groups.
Our cookie is essential for the function of the Opt-In Extension cookie. It must be saved so that the tool knows which cookie groups the user has accepted. The structure of our cookie looks like this:
- Name:
cookie_optin - Example data:
essential:1 | analytics:0 | performance:1
This means: The user has accepted the essential and performance groups, but not the analytics one.
Overwrite Base-URL
You can use this field to overwrite the URL from which the files are loaded in your website. If it is on another (sub)domain, please make sure to include it in your CORS policy header.
Minify Generated Files
All CSS and JavaScript files are compressed. If you don't want this, you have to uncheck the box Minify generated files.
Activate TEST mode
You should activate the test mode if you are still setting up the cookie consent on an existing page. If you enable this mode, the Cookie Opt-In window will not be displayed to the site visitors. To check the appearance and functionality, the dialog can be opened at any time with ?showOptin=1
at the end of the address bar in the frontend.
Disable OptIn for this language
Not all users of your site come from the EU area? - Then they also do not have to deal with a cookie banner. Put a check mark in the appropriate translation to remove the banner there.
Render CSS and JavaScript contents inline
If you enable this option, all the JavaScript and CSS content of the Cookie Opt-In is rendered directly in the head element. This improves the page load time because it contains fewer blocking HTTP requests (which includes CSS and JavaScript content).
Take DoNotTrack into account
If users have activated the 'DoNotTrack' option in their browser, they can use this checkbox to decide whether they want to take this setting into account or whether the Cookie Consent window should be displayed to them anyway.
Multidomain Settings
If you create the Cookie OptIn in a multi-domain environment, you have a few more setting options for this.
Support subdomains
Please note that this is not normally GDPR compliant. You use this option at your own risk!
Without this setting, this configuration only applies to the domain where it is stored. With this setting you can use the cookie configuration for multiple domains, for example if your domain is de.example.com so the configuration will be stored for both de.example.com
and .example.com
and thus will be valid also for en.example.com
.
Overwrite what domain this cookie should is set for
Please note that this is not normally GDPR compliant. You use this option at your own risk!
You can use this field to manually specify what the domain for the cookie must be. Without this setting, this configuration applies only to the domain where it is stored. With this setting you can use the cookie configuration for multiple domains, for example by writing example.com
so that the configuration is used for both dev.example.com
and www.example.com
.
If a group is not accepted, also delete cookies from the following domains
Here you can enter domains for which the same cookies are to be deleted as for the domain on which the Cookie OptIn is created.
Don't show the cookie banner on the following page URIs
On your privacy page, you will place the cookie opt-in content element. Therefore, the banner does not need to appear there again. For that, paste the page URI into the field. Each new line will be interpreted as a new regular expression. Check if your regular expression matches the URL of your page, for example by using this page. Also, after saving, check on the frontend in the browser console (to open with F12) that there are no JavaScript errors.
Disable Usage Statistics and Tractability
With this option, the statistics and traceability can be turned off. Without this setting, you will find information about accepting cookies in the Statistics and Consent Management functional areas.