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 admins and users with edit permissions can bypass the cookie prevention e.g. setting Google Analytics or some social media functions with plugins, etc.; so admin/editor user education is required.

If some action like using Google Analytics is set by an admin in (say) the Customization section of the Look & Feel admin screen, then a check on the state of the custom consent cookie should be added as a wrap around the code used, like this:

{if $smarty.cookies.your_custom_cookie_consent_name eq 'y'}
your code that might set a cookie
{/if}

For any editor that might use some code in a Wiki page etc., that could set a cookie then they need 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}