Inform visitors about the usage of cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is saved on a user's device when they visit a website. Cookies can help for instance to recognize users who repeatedly are visiting a website. Your website is using cookies.

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• The cookie notice
• The cookie policy page
• How to edit the visibility of your cookie policy page in the footer

The cookie notice

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We've prepared a cookie notice text that's displayed by default on your website.

You can determine if visitors are notified about the use of cookies when they visit your website for the first time. This might be legally required in certain countries. It is for example included as a requirement in the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The reason for that is that cookies can collect personal data of your visitors. According to the GDPR, you need to inform your visitors about this and ask them for their explicit approval in case the collected data is not directly required for your business.

The cookie notice therefore offers visitors the opportunity to actively give their consent to the usage of cookies. Your visitors can either accept all cookies, or only the required cookies that are necessary for the operation of the website. The non-required cookies are only loaded after the visitor agreed to the usage of ALL cookies.

Note

If the visitor decides to only accept the required cookies, it might alter the functionality of your custom HTML, Google Tag Manager, or third-party applications if they are running scripts or adding cookies. 

As written above, it's up to you to decide whether you'd like to display the provided cookie notice on your website or not. Furthermore, you can edit the text that is displayed within the cookie notice:

1. In the sidebar of your cockpit, navigate to Editor.
2. In the bottom bar, select the icon .
3. Select the tab .
4. In the section Display cookie notice you determine if the cookie notice should be displayed on your website.
5. In the section Cookie notice text you can edit the text which is shown to the visitor in the cookie notice. You can also add links by selecting .
6. Select Save.

Note

The cookie notice is not displayed in the Editor or in the preview of your website. If you’d like to see it, you need to open your live website (the version your visitors also see). Once you’ve made your choice in the cookie notice, it will be gone and your selection will be stored for upcoming visits of the website. But no worries, you can always check back on how it looks like on your cookie policy page.

The cookie policy page

In the Editor, you'll find the page Cookie policy under Legal pages. This page is also mentioned in the default cookie notice text. On this page, a frame displays the cookie notice that will be shown on your website.

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The cookie notice is only displayed on the page Cookie policy if you determined that the cookie notice is displayed on your website.
You cannot change the text of the cookie notice on this page. To do so, you'll need to edit the cookie notice in the Editor.

Your visitors can access this page at any time in order to change the cookie settings they have determined via the cookie notice.

Besides the cookie notice, you can add an individual text to be displayed on this page. To do so, use the text area ("Type here") in the preview of the page. You can make use of all formatting options that are available for texts. The text and your changes are automatically saved.

Note

It is not possible to add images or other content elements to legal pages.

For example, you might want to give further information on the cookies used on your website. That's why we prepared a list of all required cookies that are used on your website and that are necessary for the operation of the website:

Name of the cookie	Purpose of the cookie
session_id	Required to store the shopping cart and for spam protection.
session_id.sig	Required to validate the session_id cookie.
sf-locale	Required to store the chosen locale of the website.
epCookieConsent	Required to store the decision that was made by the visitor in the cookie notice.

Keep in mind that the above list only includes the required cookies of your website. Further cookies heavily depend on activated apps, integrations, and settings and are not included. If you are unsure about which further cookies are set, you might want to contact the support of the respective apps and integrations.

Furthermore, you can link to your privacy policy. That way, your visitors can inform themselves about how you collect and handle personal data, for example received with the help of cookies.

How to edit the visibility of your cookie policy page in the footer

It's up to you to decide whether you'd like to show or hide the cookie policy page in the footer of your website. Here is how to edit the visibility of the cookie policy page in the footer:

1. In the sidebar of the cockpit, navigate to Editor.
2. In the sidebar of the Editor, you'll now find the section Legal pages.
3. Select next to the page Cookie policy.
4. Under Visibility on website, specify whether the page should be visible or not.
5. Select Save.

Caution

This article contains initial legal pointers but makes no claims in respect to completeness and accuracy. It can under no circumstances serve to replace legal advice on an individual case.