Computer cookies serve to assist your school in monitoring your visits and actions. They are innocuous fragments of text stored locally, which users can easily access and delete.
In this article, we will cover the importance of obtaining user consent for cookies, the process for users to accept your school's cookies, guidance on setting up a cookie policy page, and instructions for users to change their cookie settings.
Why do you need the consent of your users for cookies?
In general, the majority of cookies are not used for marketing reasons; however, sometimes, they can be used by third parties to identify the users’ activity, and therefore, they are subject to the GDPR. Consequently, you need the users' consent to activate them on their end.
How can a user accept your school’s cookies?
1. Go to Settings → School Settings → Privacy/GDPR.
2. Select either GDPR Compliance for all users
3. Or under Custom Data Privacy management select the Show Cookies opt-in to users.
Then a message will pop up when users are visiting your school, prompting them to accept the cookies by clicking on the “Got it!” button. Once clicked, the pop-up message will not appear again.
In case the users wish to accept specific cookies and not all of them, they can click on the Accept individual cookies and choose the preferable cookies in the pop-up window among:
1. Functional
2. Analytics
3. Marketing
- Necessary cookies are obligatory as they are connected to the functionality of your website.
- By clicking on the Got it button, users are accepting the necessary cookies.
- To learn more about making your school GDPR compliant, follow this link.
Cookie policy page
Before accepting the cookies, users can read all the needed information on your Cookies Policy page by clicking on the Learn more option. To help you out, LearnWorlds offers a default page for your cookie policy. Please note, however, that this text doesn't constitute legal advice. Make sure to customize the text to include your own business details and also, where required, to match your particular business needs.
1. Go to Website → Design→ Edit Website.
2. Go to the Pages Manager.
3. Search for the Cookie Policy page.
There you can just replace the needed variables or even change the text.
How can a user change their Cookies settings?
When a user wants to change their cookie selection, they can achieve that by navigating to their profile page, and after clicking on the Edit button, to navigate in the Privacy Settings tab. For more information about what users can do in their profile, check this support article.