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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 cookie dialog banner appears when a user visits your site for the first time. The dialog won’t After that, the banner will only appear again , unlesswhen:

  • 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:

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 dialog, a template appears that you can customize to fit your company.

Dialog buttons

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banner title and message

Describe how you use cookies on your site. We recommend you to mention that your site uses third-party cookies and include links to your company’s privacy policies.

Allow users to accept only necessary cookies

When turned on, users can choose to accept all cookies or only necessary cookies. When turned off, users can only use the site when they accept all cookies.

Buttons

You can customize the text of each button.

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

Types of cookies

Required cookies

Refined collects some cookies which these buttons:

  • Button to accept all. By clicking the button, the user accepts all cookies:

    • Required cookies.

    • Google Analytics cookies, if you connected a Google Analytics tracking ID.

    • Custom cookies, if you added them.

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

  • Button to accept necessary. By clicking the button, the user accepts only the cookies that 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

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  • won’t function as expected if users have blocked

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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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You can add your own cookies with the HTML module or by adding custom HTML or CSS to your site.

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.