Pre-ticked boxes

  • Resolved mar1as

    (@mar1as)


    8 years ago

    Hi,
    I haven’t installed the plugin yet but saw it on another website. The cookie notification had all the boxes pre-ticked which I thought wasn’t allowed under GDPR? I get why they are but am concerned whether this makes it still compliant? Also, this looks a great plugin but may I ask if you have had it validated by someone with legal knowledge of the GDPR and EPR?
    Thanks

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  • Plugin Author cookiebot

    (@cookiebot)

    8 years ago

    Hi @mar1as,

    Thank you for reaching out and for the interest in our Cookiebot plugin.

    There has been some confusion regarding whether pre-checked (but not pre-enabled) tickboxes are compliant. We have reached out to the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party and are awaiting further clarification on this matter. You can easily control (from the backend Manager when logged into a Cookiebot account) whether you want to display the ‘statistics’, ‘preferences’ and ‘marketing’ tick-boxes as pre-checked or not.

    As for the validation, it is not possible to get an official ‘stamp of validation’ from the EU but we have had a number of lawyers evaluate it – for example DG Connect under the European Commission, The Danish Business Authority, Google, Oracle and a number of large enterprise customers in France, USA, Germany, UK and Denmark as well as two independent lawyers in Denmark. Google also recommends Cookiebot to its advertising partners: https://www.cookiechoices.org

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