The Sitebuilder uses cookie files to ensure your site provides the best experience for your visitors. In some localities, legislation such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy Directive of 2002, commonly known as “The cookie law”, may require you to inform your visitors of cookies used by your website and to obtain visitors’ consent to the use certain types of cookies.
If your website has visitors from the EU, you need a cookie warning in the form of a banner.
What is a cookie banner?
A consent banner is a cookie notice that appears on websites upon the user’s first visit to the site. Its purpose is to alert your users about the cookies and get consent for setting them. Learn more about essential and non-essential cookies here.
How to enable cookie banner
Here's how you can seek the consent of your visitors to the use of cookie files.
1. Go to the main menu and click Settings.
2. In the General tab, navigate to the Cookies & User data section:
3. Click Enable.
4. Click Submit to confirm the changes.
When your visitors arrive at your website for the first time, they will see the banner at the top of their screen.
Editing the cookie banner
The banner text is generic and may not apply to your particular situation. To change the text, simply click anywhere on the banner and start typing.
To edit the text in the buttons, click inside the button and type a new text. You can also insert a link to your Privacy policy and other legal pages.
Adding a cookie banner in multiple languages
When you create a language-specific page of your website, you will have an option to add a cookie consent banner in the language of your choice. To create a multilanguage cookie banner:
1. Go to the main menu and click Settings.
2. In the Multilingual tab, click Add language:
3. In the drop-down New language menu, choose a language that you want to add:
4. Click Submit and then Submit again.
Now you can enter a custom GDPR notice text in the language of each of your language-specific pages.
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