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A cookie dialog banner helps users understand what kind of cookies you want to collect and why you want to do so. It’s a great way to comply with laws such as GDPR and CCPA, and with your organization's policies.

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  • The user cleared out their browser’s cookies.

  • You changed the contents of the dialogbanner.

  • You deactivated and later reactivated the dialogbanner.

Users can change their cookie settings whenever they want:

  • Logged-in users click the User menu (their profile icon) in the navigation menu > Cookie settings.

  • Anonymous users click the Cogwheel icon in the navigation menu > Cookie settings.

Set up a site’s cookie

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  1. Go to the Refined Administration.

  2. Click Sites in the left-hand menu.

  3. Select the site.

  4. Go to the Configuration tab.

  5. Go to the Cookie dialogbanner section.

Cookie

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When you first set up your cookie dialogbanner, a template appears that you can customize to fit your company. We recommend you to mention that your site uses third-party cookies and include links to your company’s privacy policies.

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Cookie banner buttons

Turn on the cookie consent option to display two buttons in the cookie dialogbanner. By clicking the primary button, users allow all cookies. By clicking the secondary button, users allow only required cookies. You can customize the text of each button.

Turn off the cookie consent option to display one button in the cookie dialogbanner. In this case, all cookies are collected and the user closes the dialog banner by clicking the button. You can customize the button’s text.

Types of cookies

Required cookies

Refined collects some cookies which are necessary for the product to function: for example to authenticate a user. Users can’t opt out of these cookies in Refined, but they may be able to opt out by changing their browser settings. However, Refined will not function as expected if users have blocked cookies.

All cookies

According to the EU's Data Protection Law (GDPR), you need users' consent to collect the Google Analytics and custom cookies.

Custom cookies

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The cookies we set for consent are required-cookies-acknowledged and all-cookies-accepted. The value of these cookies is the version of the cookie dialog banner that the user has accepted. The site DOM contains a meta tag with the name cookie-latest-version. You can accessed and compared it with the consent cookie values to decide if you should add your cookies or not. The value in the meta tag will be 0 if the dialog banner is not set up. The version will increase whenever the cookie dialog banner is edited.