How can I show the cookie banner to all users and automatically opt-in non-EU users?

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Jake Bellacera

• June 22, 2018 22:51

Hi there,

We would like to implement the following policy using Cookiebot, but are currently running into a road block.

1. If the user is in the EU, show the cookie banner and wait for the user to provide active consent to drop cookies.
2. If the user is not in the EU, show the cookie banner but automatically opt-in the user to drop cookies.

Currently, we are able to accomplish #1 using Cookiebot. All EU users will be asked to consent before we can drop cookies in the user. I'm not sure how to facilitate #2 though. Right now, non-EU users will be opted in by default and they do not see the banner. We'd like to at least provide notice so they can be aware of our policy.

I was trying to use the JavaScript API to build a workaround by utilizing the Cookiebot_OnLoad callback, but have been unsuccessful so far. Here's the code I've been working with:

https://gist.github.com/jakebellacera/a3b179298f058d017449b364fc152ccb

If there is a way to use a different policy for EU and non-EU users within Cookiebot that I'm just not finding that would be ideal.

Thanks!

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  Elina - vConnect - Community Supporter

  • June 25, 2018 09:15
  • Edited

     Hi Jake,

     Regarding your point 2, you can either

         1) display the banner and ask for consent also for non-EU users or

         2) not display the banner to non-EU users.

     The combination of displaying the banner (which is made and in place for obtaining a consent) and then not giving the user the option to submit their consent as they wish is not possible.
     If you would like to notify the non-EU users about your cookie policy, you could perhaps implement a notice or pop-up of some kind on your website and then link to the Cookie Declaration (https://support.cookiebot.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004374474-What-is-the-Cookie-Declaration-cookie-policy-and-what-is-included-in-it-) or to elsewhere on your site where you describe your policy.

  
  
  NOTE: 
  You can use a property on the Cookiebot object called

  Cookiebot.isOutsideEU

  to detect the non-EU users and display a notice if you want.
  
  
  

  Regards,

  Elina

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  Hisham Hassan

  • July 03, 2018 07:17

  Hi Elina, can you show example how this property can be implemented and where do we inset this property?

   

  Thanks!

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  Elina - vConnect - Community Supporter

  • July 05, 2018 13:15
  • Edited

  Hi Hisham,

  Bearing in mind that Cookiebot loads asynchronous, so the Cookiebot object may not be available at the time the function is called, here is a sample that you can look at:

  <script>
    function MyFunction() {
      if (typeof Cookiebot !== "undefined") {
        // pop up notice message here
      } else {
        setTimeout(MyFunction, 100);
      }
    }
  </script>

  Regards,
  Elina

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