[CookiesManager] Cookies Manager

Cookies Manager gives users a warning the website stores cookies and asks them to accept.

This is for recent laws brought in by the EU that states all websites should let users know that the site they are visiting stores cookies.

With this module you can link to a privacy policy as well as edit the text displayed.

I'm not sure if the UK law is a bit different from the rest of Europe, It is ok here to to say the site uses cookies, accept or forever get this warning.

Please provide any feedback in the forum and report any bugs here: http://www.contao-forge.org/projects/cookiesmanager

We have tested this on various versions of Contao but are unsure if it will conflict with some scripts on some sites. Please let us know if it does and provide details.

Thanks

Hi Ben, greatly needed extension. I might use it at some point – every medium to large (and many small ones) organisation in the UK have now heard about the 'cookie law' and seem to be talking about it.

Out of interest, can you post a couple/few links to websites that use your extension?

Hi Spirelli,

Our website has it on: http://www.360fusion.co.uk/

We will be putting it on otheres soon.

Thanks for sharing, Ben.

I've just stumbled across this one http://cookiecuttr.com/ Looks quite neat with lots of relevant options.

Hello,

this is a nice extension, thanks! I just tested it on www.contao-anleitungen.de and found some issues for which I created tickets.

The most critical issue from my point is that the session cookie is stored anyway - even if the user did not approve cookies. Can this be fixed soon?

Jan

Can someone confirm that you actually need to ask permission for all cookies? As I read it it is only needed for non essential tracking code. Afaik cookies I place are required to maintain a login, shopping cart and such. But as soon as you would implement Google Analytics or anything similar you'd have to show the warning...

Hi jan.theofel, I saw your tickets but didn't have time to answer it yet, I'll have a look next week.

We are aware that the cookies are still stored, but it seems that the law only require to let the user know that the cookies will be stored, that's all. But because it is unclear, I'll try to stop their creation if the user doesn't accept, also because it's more logical to do it ^^ The problem is I'm not sure I can do it easily. Indeed the cookies are created by the google analytics module, so I may have to change this module to an extension for google analytics that I don't know at all...We'll see. Thank you for your feedback !

Hello,

I will do the changes needed for the Google Analytics extension as I maintain that one. No need for you to take action here. ;-)

Jan

Hi,

That is convenient :)

The original script is from http://cookiesdirective.com/

As you can see, it seems you just have to put the lines where the cookies are created in the function to handle if they will be created or not:

Quote:

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function cookiesDirectiveScriptWrapper(){
// Cookie creating scripts etc here....

}

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I will work on the other tickets this week.

Thanks !