Some laws such as the ePrivacy and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) require websites to detail their use of cookies to users. In this short post, we’ll share with you a cookie policy example and go through what you need in order to create a compliant cookie policy.
Unlike a privacy policy, which makes legally required disclosures about your data processing activities in general, the cookie policy deals specifically with your use of cookies and contains those particular legally required disclosures – which we will exaplain below.
Keep in mind that, often, the cookie policy is a dedicated section of the main privacy policy of a website or an app.
First thing first, under the law, you’ll need to show a cookie banner (also called cookie notice) to inform site visitors and allow your users to provide or deny consent. In your cookie banner, you must link your cookie policy and make details of cookies’ purposes, usage, and related third-party activities available to the user.
This article is a part of our series on cookies and cookie consent. Read also:
The cookie policy should at least contain:
*Also consider that your policy should be available in all the languages in which your services are provided.
To see how all these elements come together, check out a cookie policy template by clicking the button below:
The good news is yes, you absolutely can!
But it would be best if you were careful. Choose a high-quality cookie policy generator that, at the very least, contains clauses written by actual legal professionals and that allows you to customize your document based on your individual needs entirely.
With iubenda’s Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution you can manage all aspects of the GDPR, ePrivacy and the Cookie Law, in particular:
Want to see how to create a cookie policy in under 2 minutes? Watch the video here!
