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What is included in the Cookie Declaration? (Cookiebot Admin)

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The Cookie Declaration is essentially a cookie policy you can use on your website.

It is included in both the free and premium subscriptions and can easily be implemented on your website either as a separate page or embedded into e.g. an existing Privacy Policy. See the last part of this article (point 4) for how to implement the Cookie Declaration on your website.

 

What is included in the Cookie Declaration?

The Cookie Declaration contains the following elements (see illustration below):

  1. A standard introduction text informing the website users about the use of cookies
  2. If you have enabled bulk consent, information about the domains that the user’s consent is valid for is automatically included (this text cannot be edited)
  3. The user can see his current consent (what categories of cookies consent has been given for), change his consent or completely withdraw his consent. If the user clicks ‘change your consent’ or ‘withdraw your consent’ the cookie consent banner will re-appear.
  4. Information about when the Cookie Declaration was last updated. This date is automatically updated when a scan has been performed on the website.
  5. A list of all the cookies and trackers in use on the website – categorized in Necessary, Preferences, Statistics and Marketing - along with purpose descriptions and additional information. This information is automatically drawn from the latest scan report for your website and is automatically updated with each new scan.

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Can I customize the Cookie Declaration?

Styling:

The Cookie Declaration will automatically adopt the styling on your website (from your website’s general stylesheet). If you would like to style it further, you can override the standard styling using the CSS !important rule in your website’s own stylesheet.

Modifying the Cookie Declaration

The Admin allows you to completely customize the Cookie Declaration. You can choose to edit, add, or omit any part of it.

You can customize your Cookie Declaration by following these steps:

  1. Log into the Admin Interface.
  2. Select "Configuration" from the left-hand menu.
  3. Expand the "Cookie Declaration" section under the "Privacy" tab.
  4. Select "Custom" from the selection field labeled "Template".

You can now edit the Cookie Declaration template, this contains XSLT as well as XML data nodes. You can use this template to fetch values defined under the "Content" tab. You can find the placeholders by clicking on the icon above the text field.

Should you want to revert to the default Cookie Declaration, you can use the "Reset to default" link under the text field containing the XSLT template.

Important! Remember to include all the needed elements including the consent panel where the user can change or withdraw consent.

To include the default consent panel, insert the following div at the position where you want to display the panel:

<div id="CookieDeclarationUserStatusPanel"></div>

If you want to customize the consent panel, we provide a Cookiebot JavaScript SDK, e.g. you can insert the following:

<a href="javascript: Cookiebot.renew()">Change your consent</a>

<a href="javascript: Cookiebot.withdraw()">Revoke your consent</a> 

Please note: We can not provide assistance in creating customized cookie banners and/or declarations.

The standard Cookie Declaration is available to both free- and Premium subscriptions. However, being able to create a custom Cookie Declaration using XSLT is exclusively available to Premium subscribers.

 

How do I implement the Cookie Declaration?

For general implementation of the Cookie Declaration, please see the second part of step 3 of our general installation guide. https://www.cookiebot.com/goto/help

Other Cookiebot implementation guides which include instructions on how to implement the Cookie Declaration:

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