Shopify, this question is for you… If we have a website with European users, ‘unambiguous, affirmative consent’ to cookies is not optional. It’s the law as per EU GDPR, with huge fines for non-compliance (or at best lots of time-wasting admin work if challenged on it). Just like we can’t run an on…

RE: “How do people in Europe handle cookies? Are they all set to necessary?” Not sure I’ve seen any Shopify cookie consent Apps that offer ‘levels’ or ‘categories’ of tracking - e.g. like OneTrust/etc. offer ‘Necessary, Functional, Marketing, Social Media, etc.’ There may well be some such Apps, an…

Yes I understand. But professional firms that are working with Softwares for dropping cookies in every possible website claim that you can at last set prior to consent 3rd party scripts like Google analytics and Facebook pixel that you manually insert. You basically need to edit a code in Shopify …

Not necessarily, after a bit more research, I believe alot more app developers embed code onto the website than intended. Meaning that they have installed the code via a blocking javascript. So there could be potentially some cookie GDPR compliant apps, if they are done properly. If you want to to …

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Thank you for posting the link to the app you are using. I hope Shopify will have a solution. it must be part of the out of the box store setup. i wish you much success with your Store. :+1:

Has anyone found an app that truly integrates with the Shopify Consent Tracking API? ( https://shopify.dev/docs/themes/consent-tracking-api ) I’ve not been able to find any. EDIT: Shopify seems to have their own app https://apps.shopify.com/customer-privacy-banner and from the description it seems t…

I took the time to compare several third-party apps. I only found one that tracks consent and offers the ability to disable scripts. They claim to be Customer Privacy API compliant. GDPR/CCPA + Cookie Management But according to Cookiebot , we are still not compliant. What I can gather from Shopif…

I took the time to compare several third-party apps. I only found one that tracks consent and offers the ability to disable scripts. They claim to be Customer Privacy API compliant.> > GDPR/CCPA + Cookie Management > > But according to Cookiebot , we are still not compliant.> > What I can gather from…

Hello Do you have more info on this? I´m considering trying the GDPR/CCPA+Cookie Management and they say they do block google and facebook. Did you have managed to try it? Regarding other aspects they seen to be quite compliant (granular consent, ability to change consent, consent log etc). Any fe…

Why is cookie consent (per GDPR) not core Shopify functionality?

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markdc October 13, 2020, 12:07pm 23

I’m chiming in here to keep the attention of the Shopify staff on this point. It definitely needs to be a core feature!

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Why is cookie consent (per GDPR) not core Shopify functionality?

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