Cookies

Cookies blocks definition

Predefined blocks

n3t Cookie Consent comes with few predefined blocks:

• Description - displays basic description about cookies
• Functional cookies - these are cookies always enabled
• Preferences cookies - cookies to store user preferences, such as selected language etc.
• Analytics cookies - cookies for analytics, such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager etc.
• Marketing cookies - cookies for retargeting, remarketing, such as Facebook remarketing, Google Ads etc.
• Unknown cookies - block to hold automatically detected cookies, which were not automatically described
• System cookies - same as 'Functional Cookies', but this block is not displayed in Settings dialog
• Hidden cookies - same as 'Unknown Cookies', but this block is not displayed in Settings dialog (primarily used for detected unknown cookies)
• Privacy policy - Displays link to Privacy policy (it is displayed, only if Privacy policy link is filled)
• Consent info - Displays info about user consent, date of consent and ID of consent

Custom blocks

However, if you need more blocks (and cookies categories), or you want to specify different behavior for these blocks, there are two additional type of blocks:

• Custom description block - displays any text with optional heading
• Custom cookies block - displays cookies category. You are free to specify all the parameters for this category.

Cookies parameters

Depending on block type and your site configuration, for every block you can define following parameters:

Title

Available for Custom description and Custom cookies blocks. Here you can specify Title of the block, how it will appear in consent dialog.

Description

Available for Custom description and Custom cookies blocks. Here you can specify Description of the block, how it will appear in consent dialog.

Enabled by default

Available for Custom cookies blocks. When Cookies blocks is enabled by default, cookies specified in it will not be blocked before user choice. This should be used only for functional Cookies, those necessary for site function (such as session cookies etc.)

Read-only

Available for Custom cookies blocks. When Cookies blocks is read-only, user cannot change its status. This makes sense only when Enabled by default option is also set for this block. It should be used for functional cookies blocks.

Cookies list

In the cookies list you can specify list of cookies in the category. This option is not available for Description, Privacy policy, Consent info and Custom description blocks, as those doesn't contain any cookies.

For every Cookie you can specify multiple parameters, depending on your site and n3t Cookie Consent configuration:

Name

This option specifies name of the cookie (not the name dissplayed to user, but the technical name of the cookie, such as n3t_cc etc.). It could be simple name, or regular expression. When Regular expression is used, the name of the cookie is checked against this with Regular Expression. Enter regiular Expressions without any modifiers and initial and final slash (/). For example ^ga_ for all cookies atrting with ga_.

Description

This is the text, presented to user. It should contain short description of the cookie and its purpose. Remeber, that users will enable / disable Cookies on your site based on this description, so keep it short and descriptive.

Is RegExp

If name entered in Name column is Regular Expression, set this to Yes, otherwise leave it No.

Provider

Provider of the Cookie, which service use this Cookie. This column could be disabled in Settings dialog appearance settings. This should be something like Google, Youtube, or name of your site.

Expiration

Expiration of the Cookie, how long will this cookie remains on user computer. This column could be disabled in Settings dialog appearance settings.

Expiration unit

Unit of expiration of the Cookie. This column could be disabled in Settings dialog appearance settings, and will appear only if your site is set as multilingual.