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Hi guys,
I was under the impression that in order for there to be no grey areas, the easiest route for website owners would be to ask users for consent BEFORE tracking anything. Or in other words: there are no tracking pixels being fired, until the visitor clicks the big “OK” button and accepts cookies.
I’ve been using a 3rd party plugin for this, because it allows me to do just that: have scripts not load until the user consents to my cookie policy. However, I’d much rather use the Enfold Cookie Consent bar, but on testing I noticed it does NOT delay tracking, until the visitor has clicked “OK”.
Is there a way to configure the Enfold Cookie Consent so the scripts placed in the “Google Services” tab in the Enfold settings fire only AFTER the user has accepted the cookie policy?
Thanks guys
Hey tixxpff,
No, unfortunately this is not possible without rewriting the cookie consent code. We use the disable tracking property ( https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/user-opt-out ) to deactivate google analytics. I’d recommend to use a third party plugin like Borlabs Cookie if you want to delay the loading process.
Best regards,
PeterThanks Dude,
may I ask why you guys have decided not to give us the option to delay the loading process? Was it too big of a challenge to implement that into Enfold or is it just not necessary to have this feature to make your site GDPR compliant?Hi,
in our view it is just not necessary to have this feature to make your site GDPR compliant. We use the anonymize_ip parameter to anonymize the tracking data (which results in non personal data). In addition the user can opt out with the disable tracking parameter. There’s an interesting article which sums it up here: https://www.medienkraft.at/google-analytics-dsgvo-konform/Best regards,
PeterThe article is technically interesting but in my opinion it doesn’t takes in right consideration the EU directive. The EU directive is very clear about cookies:
The ePrivacy directive – more specifically Article 5(3) – requires prior informed consent for storage or for access to information stored on a user’s terminal equipment. In other words, you must ask users if they agree to most cookies and similar technologies (e.g. web beacons, Flash cookies, etc.) before the site starts to use them. [ http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm ]
It is very hard to say that Google Analytics cookies are technical and necessary cookies so, i think that storing analytics cookies into browser memory before obtaining user permission IS NOT GDPR compliant.
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