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.
Understanding User Consent 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.
Enabling Cookie Consent in Your School
Go to Settings → School Settings → Privacy/GDPR. Select between the two options:
1. GDPR Compliance for all users.
2. Show Cookies opt-in to users under Custom Data Privacy management.
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 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 accept the necessary cookies.
- You can learn more about making your school GDPR compliant in this article.
Setting Up the 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. This text doesn't constitute legal advice. Make sure to customize the text to include your own business details and, 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.
You can see a comprehensive overview of the default cookie policy page in this article.Changing Cookie Preferences from the User Profile
When a user wants to change their cookie selection, they can achieve that by navigating to their profile page and clicking on the Edit button to navigate to the Privacy Settings tab. For more information about what users can do in their profile, check this support article.