Hi everyone,
Well, i have read this with interest but wonder now, if and how it is possible to apply a cookie policy that is 100% compliant with the GDPR rules right now, 24 July? It is nice to hear that Shopify is working on a solution and tests a Beta in May 2020, but we are at end of July right now and it still seems impossible to offer visitors an opt-in cookie bar! Which means precisely this:
No single Shop in the EU + UK is compliant with the GDPR rules which took effect on 1 October 2019!
None of the cookie bar add-ons (free or not) in the store are compliant, e. g. this one which many use and THINK it is enough: https://apps.shopify.com/eu-cookie-bar However this is NOT opt-in, but just the normal “got it” banner that is completely useless. Every semi-talented lawyer will have an easy working week sending written warnings to Shopify store owners since then. Honestly, it is 10 month since GDPR is in action and it is nothing short from being entirely unacceptable what Shopify does here.
ProCookie cookie banners or others must offer opt-in so that NO non-essential cookies are being set. However, Shopify sets non-essential cookies which will be delete then. However, setting them even for a short period of time is not compliant. And by the way: Advertising Shopify as GDPR-compliant on the one hand and then forcing shop owners to buy a rather expensive app to “more-or-less”-achieve something that might be compliant is… [you name it].
So will there be any serious option built-in to Shopify for free for every shop owner? If not, we very likely will have to leave this environment rather sooner that later, because Shopify will not pay the bill we might receive, correct?