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Hi,
The UK ICO recently published new guidelines about implied consent (for all cookies not just Google Analytics) and you can already see major orgs taking this new approach to their handling of the cookie law (www.bbc.co.uk and www.nationwide.co.uk).
In both of these websites a notice appears informing the visitor, there are no accept decline buttons but rather links to further info and some continue/close buttons. However, if you navigate to another page on the site or reload the page the banner does not re-appear. Thus, they are presuming consent by showing the banner once only and even with no action by the user (IE clicking a specific accept button) they are presuming implied consent.
Is there an option to run your Cookie Monster in this sort of mode?
This would be by far preferrable because then there is minimal obstruction to the visitor as it doesn't come back on every page load until they click something.
Also, is it possible like in these sites to have your banner placed above the template page instead of on top of it so that navigation buttons are not hidden from the user? If you look at Akeeba's site their whole top menu is obscured and not navigable until you click the button on the banner, it would be better if the menu was below the banner (especially if the implied consent option from above was possible.)
Looking forward to your thoughts!
Dave
The UK ICO recently published new guidelines about implied consent (for all cookies not just Google Analytics) and you can already see major orgs taking this new approach to their handling of the cookie law (www.bbc.co.uk and www.nationwide.co.uk).
In both of these websites a notice appears informing the visitor, there are no accept decline buttons but rather links to further info and some continue/close buttons. However, if you navigate to another page on the site or reload the page the banner does not re-appear. Thus, they are presuming consent by showing the banner once only and even with no action by the user (IE clicking a specific accept button) they are presuming implied consent.
Is there an option to run your Cookie Monster in this sort of mode?
This would be by far preferrable because then there is minimal obstruction to the visitor as it doesn't come back on every page load until they click something.
Also, is it possible like in these sites to have your banner placed above the template page instead of on top of it so that navigation buttons are not hidden from the user? If you look at Akeeba's site their whole top menu is obscured and not navigable until you click the button on the banner, it would be better if the menu was below the banner (especially if the implied consent option from above was possible.)
Looking forward to your thoughts!
Dave
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0I value your feedback and will explore this possibility in detail and call on you to test when then time for a proof of concept arises
(PS - there is also something within the pdf that talks about users being able to change their preferences, does your component have a page we can link to to allow visitors to change their consent? Or do you presume they will clear their cookies first in order to see the banner again?)
Currently the vistor will have to clear cookies first to see the notifications again. A rest button is a possibility I will explore.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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0Hi,
Thanks for the quick response!
I suppose I work on the principle that if it's good enough for them it's good enough for me. I trust these orgs legal and tech teams that their solutions are going to be ok from the ICO point of view.
I read throug hthe pdf on this page in terms of implied consent: http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/blog/2012/updated-ico-advice-guidance-e-privacy-directive-eu-cookie-law.aspx
I suppose it does depend on what cookies you are using as to whether their approach is ok but it seems pretty good, also compares well to a lot of other companies who are trying to comply but are doing so by simply having a more prominant link to their policies with no actual scripts dealing with the consent?!
I still think the option of running your component in a fully implied consent where it only shows on the first page load would be advantageous.
Cheers,
Dave
(PS - there is also something within the pdf that talks about users being able to change their preferences, does your component have a page we can link to to allow visitors to change their consent? Or do you presume they will clear their cookies first in order to see the banner again?) -
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About 2 weeks ago, I implemented the Implied Consent option after watching a Video announcement by the ICO ( after a Usser brought it to my attention ). The understanding is that cookies will be set until the visitor decides other wise, not permanently set. I am not aware of Implied consent with no option to Accept or Decline. I will look up further notices from the ICO on this, if you have links to legal docs, that would help.
Also, is it possible like in these sites to have your banner placed above the template page instead of on top of it so that navigation buttons are not hidden from the user? If you look at Akeeba's site their whole top menu is obscured and not navigable until you click the button on the banner, it would be better if the menu was below the banner (especially if the implied consent option from above was possible.)
Sure, in the plugins CSS, you can change the position to position: inherit; or position: relative . That should work, depending on your template;
plugins/system/cookiemonster/assets/css/yourstyle.css
I will possibly make it an option in a future release.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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