History: Cookie Consent
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Cookie Consent
New in Tiki10, to comply with "EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations."
To allow a site to comply with the European regulation that a user must give positive (not passive) informed consent before a web site loads cookies onto their accessing device (PC, phone etc) a new optional Cookie Consent feature has been added to the Login set of admin screens. When set 'on' this enables the prevention of any cookies (except the session cookie) from being set and also lets the following be defined:
- the name of a new cookie that is loaded when consent has been given
- the duration of the consent cookie
- various parameters so that warning text and 'consent giving' dialogue can be displayed
It should be noted however that some actions by users with edit permissions can bypass the cookie prevention e.g. setting Google Analytics or some social media functions with plugins, etc.; so editor user education is required to use a new 'wrap around' plugin called COOKIECONSENT which will prevent anything in the body of this new plugin from being executed if the user has not set the consent cookie eg
{COOKIECONSENT()}
any content that could set a cookie
{CONSENTCOOKIE}