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What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to remember users' actions or preferences over time. Both the platform and third parties use cookies to track users' activities. Via the cookie notification, third party cookies can be disabled within the platform. This will also disable all modules that use cookies until visitors accept them via the notification.
Go to Cookies and Cookie notification for details.
Options for setup cookie notification
The platform provides a native cookie notification, or your website's cookie notification can be integrated in the newsroom. The options are as follows:
- Native Cookie Notification
Users can enable the cookie notification for their account by switching on this option in the account settings / advanced. When switched on, all modules which make use of cookies will be disabled. They will appear after the user accepts the cookies. The cookie notification looks like this:The Cookie Settings allow you to customize the text and the buttons of the notification.
- Our Cookies in your look and feel
We can redesign our cookie notification to make sure it resembles your own cookie notification. This is done based on the cookie notification that is used on your website.
If your cookie notification has more than 2 layers, so not only decline or accept, we need to know by which settings we need to accept the cookies and when to decline the cookies. This is due to the fact that the Presspage cookie exists out of a max of 2 states, 'Accept' or 'Decline'. When we take over the texts from the your website, you need to make sure that the cookie statements include information about our cookies. - Newsroom cookies combined with your website cookies
We can investigate if we can set up a combined cookie notification for the newsroom and the website. In this manner, a visitor from the website or newsroom only has to accept the cookies on one of the two pages to accept them for both. What we need to do this investigation is your complete cookie script(s). If not loaded by said script but separately, we’d like to receive the necessary stylesheet (in .css or .scss) to make the cookie look right as well if available.
When we follow this approach, the fact that a cookie notification has only 2 levels at Presspage does not change. We use the way the system checks if a cookie is already accepted. So, if you have a cookie notification that makes a difference between 'functional', 'marketing', 'social media' and perhaps other types of cookies, we require confirmation of what options need to be checked to allow our cookie to be set to ‘Accepted’.