Our Privacy and Cookie Policy Generator and the Cookie Solution are two different but complementary services. Let’s see when they are required and how they work, or jump directly to the section on the difference between the Cookie Policy and Cookie Solution.
The privacy policy, or privacy notice, is a document in which the data owner (the person or entity that runs a website/app) outlines the methods and purposes of its data processing to Users – ie users who visit or who use the website/app.
If a website/app collects personal data, the Data Owner must inform users of this fact by way of a privacy policy. All that is required to trigger this obligation is the presence of a simple contact form, Google Analytics, a cookie or even a social widget; if you’re processing any kind of personal data, you definitely need one.
The cookie policy is a section of the privacy policy dedicated to cookies. Cookies are able to track user behavior and are therefore a potential privacy risk. Our cookie policy details the purpose of the cookies’ installation, names the third parties who install or may install cookies through the website and provides links to said third parties’ respective privacy policy and possible consent forms.
The privacy and cookie policy generator allows you to create a customized privacy and cookie policy for your website/app in a few clicks without the need for technical or legal skills. These solutions are currently available in 11 languages: Italian, US English, UK English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch and Danish.
For further information on how to get started with generating a policy, see the following guide: How to Generate a Policy.
Once generated, the privacy policy can be integrated to the website/app, by choosing one of our integration methods.
Please note: once integrated, the privacy policy must be accessible from every page of your website/app, by for example including a link in the footer.
The Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution is a complete solution for meeting the technical requirements of the cookie law as required by Italian and European regulations.
The Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution requires that you link to a cookie policy from your banner as legally required. If you have the cookie policy feature active on your iubenda account (as described above), the Cookie Solution automatically integrates your cookie policy into the solution once the option is selected. Otherwise, if you already have your own compliant cookie policy, you can simply insert your own link here.
The Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution, once installed, allows you to manage:
The Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution also makes it possible to view statistics on consent which is useful, for example, to study the consents obtained in relation to the total number of visits and the manner in which the consent was collected. Note: Statistics are only available from 300K page views.
For WordPress and Joomla users we released two dedicated plugins that help simplify the integration of the Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution within your website/app. The WordPress and Joomla! plugins also simplify some of the operations related to the blocking of scripts.
In order to properly integrate the Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution you need to include the script within the <head> tag of your website’s HTML as the first element. For more information, see the Introduction to the iubenda Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution.
Please note: in order to complete the configuration of the Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution, you will also need to set up the prior blocking of scripts. See this guide for further information.
