How to Be GDPR/CCPA Compliant
A Step-By-Step Guide:
By default, the app is set to show in the following countries: EEA/EU counties + Brazil and
California. You need to make sure you have enabled it for the countries where your business is
operating and such requirement is enforced by law. First step after enabling the Cookie Consent
Bar is making sure to enable it for the specific region you are interested in being compliant
for, i.e. GDPR (Europe, EEA, and Brazil), CCPA (California), or both GDPR + CCPA. You can do
that from here:
Make sure that your Privacy Policy page is up to date. You should manually update your Privacy
Policy and Terms & Conditions texts to be compliant with all requirements. If you do not have a
Privacy Policy/Terms & Conditions page yet, please follow these instructions -
Shopify guide on setting store policies Depending on which law you
want to be compliant with, you will need to describe these transparency requirements as per this
FAQ question
29. What are
the transparency requirements for GDPR and CCPA? in our FAQ page.
4.Special attention to the blocking of Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel
If you want to further block
Google Tag Manager,
Google Analytics,
Facebook
Pixel and implement
Facebook Flag for Limited Data Use, please check question
numbers: 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 from our FAQ
5.Check the configuration of the GDPR/CCPA Compliance pages on your store
Make sure to add the GDPR/CCPA Compliance pages as a link to your footer. This way your website
visitors will be able to easily navigate to them and request all kinds of different information
for their account data (account edit, data report, deletion request etc). For this, please check
questions 12 and 13 from our FAQ.
Once this is done, you can test the GDPR/CCPA requests yourself.
6. Give the option to visitors to withdraw a consent
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According to the GDPR law, consent shall be as easy to withdraw as to give. That is why we
advise on adding a link or a button to a page of your choosing, that will trigger the
preferences popup again. This way, your website visitors will be able to change their
preferences. We would also advise adding this to your store’s Privacy Policy page.
More on how you can do that you will be able to find in question 11 in our FAQ:
7. Position the cookie bar in the middle of the screen
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If you would like to set the consent bar to show in the middle of the page, feel free to check
question 95 in our FAQ:
8. Action when the “Close” button is clicked
First and foremost, you should know that the close button is hidden by default. If you wish to show it on the cookie bar, please check the following FAQ:
Once the button is added, you will be able to decide what the behavior should be when the Close button is clicked. You can either block all of the cookies or keep them based on the initial state of your cookie bar. For more information on how to do that, please check the following FAQ:
Furthermore, if you want to add a Reject/Refuse button to the Cookie Bar, please check the following FAQ:
