Humanityco

<p><strong>Compliance by Hu-manity.co</strong> (formerly known as Cookie Notice) provides a simple, customizable website banner that can be used to help your website comply with cookie consent requirements under the EU GDPR, CCPA, and other data privacy laws — with <strong>seamless integration</strong> with Cookie Compliance to help your site comply with the latest updates to existing consent laws.</p>
<p><strong>Cookie Compliance</strong> is a fully featured Consent Management Platform (CMP) that provides automated compliance features and enhanced design controls in a state-of-the-art web application. Cookie Compliance enables websites to <strong>take a proactive approach to data protection and consent laws</strong>. It is the first solution to offer Intentional Consent, a new consent framework that incorporates the latest guidelines from over 100+ countries, and emerging standards from leading international organizations like the IEEE and European Center for Digital Rights (noyb.eu). Cookie Compliance provides a beautiful, multi-level experience and includes new choices and controls for site visitors to better understand and engage in data privacy decisions.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Our Cookie Compliance web application introduces a more ethical, proactive way to capture and manage consent.  This early version of the emerging Intentional Consent framework is a result of Hu-manity.co’s ongoing work with top Fortune 500 companies, governments, and standards organizations, who believe that the imbalanced relationship between consumers and corporations is unsustainable when it comes to data privacy and consent online. We are making it available for all website owners and operators who share this belief and support our mission to eliminate the dark patterns in online consent.<br />
  Matt Sinderbrand – Chief Platform Officer, Hu-manity.co</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Compliance (plugin only)</h3>
<p>Compliance by Hu-manity.co provides a simple, customizable website banner to help your website comply with certain cookie consent requirements.</p>
<h4>Banner features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customizable notice message</li>
<li>Consent on click, scroll or close</li>
<li>Multiple cookie expiry options</li>
<li>Link to Privacy Policy page</li>
<li>WordPress Privacy Policy page synchronization</li>
<li>WPML and Polylang compatible</li>
<li>SEO friendly</li>
</ul>
<h3>Cookie Compliance (plugin + web application)</h3>
<p>Cookie Compliance gives you access to the most up-to-date formatting guidelines and technical compliance requirements for over 100 countries and legal jurisdictions.</p>
<h4>Banner features:</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Intentional Consent</strong> provides 3 equal buttons to give site visitors the ability to accept none, some, or all cookies through packaged choices called Data Access Levels. Data Access Levels improve consent conversion and eliminate the dark pattern of deceptive, non-equal choices in the first layer. <em>Complies with equal choice principle prescribed under GDPR and other data protection laws.</em></li>
<li><strong>Consent duration selector</strong> gives visitor control over how long their consent remains valid for your site.  <em>Enables your site to align with recent guidelines from EU Data Protection Authorities, which state that cookie consent should be valid for no longer than a period of 6 months.</em></li>
<li><strong>Cookie purpose categories</strong> make it easy for website visitors to customize their consent by category. <em>Complies with affirmative, opt-in consent requirements prescribed under GDPR and other data protection laws.</em></li>
<li><strong>Consent metrics</strong> displays the visitor’s consent record and a list of blocked / allowed 3rd parties directly in the expanded level of the banner. <em>Complies with latest guidance from EU Data Protection Authorities like CNIL (France) and ICO (UK). </em></li>
<li><strong>Customizable Privacy Paper</strong> provides helpful information to improve visitor comprehension and understanding of the data sharing risks and benefits. Allows you to summarize core components of your sites privacy notice and <em>aligns with the informed principle prescribed by GDPR rules for valid consent capture. </em></li>
<li><strong>Configurable Privacy Contact</strong> allows you to provide contact information for a business’ data privacy admin, as well as helpful links to data subject request forms and other data privacy resources. <em>Aligns with the informed principle prescribed by GDPR rules for valid consent capture.</em></li>
</ul>
<h4>Web Application features:</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Consent analytics dashboard</strong> shows event data for number of visits and provides a “trust score” to help you track how site visitors are setting their consent. Make adjustments to your banner to improve your cookie acceptance rate and monitor progress via the consent activity graph.</li>
<li><strong>Default configurations</strong> for GDPR, CCPA and more help to remove dark patterns and allow for quick and easy deployment of the consent banner without any guesswork. Customize the design of any default configuration to match the look and feel of your site.</li>
<li><strong>Automatic script blocking</strong> blocks all non-essential cookie scripts and iFrames by default and <em>complies with valid consent rules under GDPR and other data protection laws</em>; in order to be compliant, your site must record visitor consent before setting or sending cookies.</li>
<li><strong>Google Consent Mode</strong> ensures that your website can still gather valuable insights and perform effectively while respecting users’ privacy preferences by <em>dynamically adjusting the behavior of Google services according to user consent.</em></li>
<li><strong>Facebook Consent Mode</strong> allows your website to <em>measure the impact of your ads on Facebook</em>, track website activities and conversions and automatically deliver ads to Facebook if the user has agreed to.</li>
<li><strong>Consent record storage</strong> automatically stores a record of each consent and makes these records available for export. <em>Complies with proof-of-consent requirements prescribed under GDPR and other data protection laws.</em></li>
<li><strong>Multilingual support</strong> automatically translates all banner text strings and allows you to provide custom translations for every text field to ensure visitors get a consistent consent experience.</li>
<li><strong>Multidomain management</strong> allows you to manage additional Free or Professional domains under a single account and enables you to customize banner configuration and design for each domain independently.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Cookie Compliance proactive approach:</h4>
<p>For all businesses, the resources required to stay ahead of the latest regulations increases with the passage of each new law. With enforcement of compliance violations increasing daily, we believe it is critical for us as a trusted consent vendor to do everything in our power to help you stay ahead of these laws and remove the risk to your business</p>
<p><strong>Cookie Compliance covers all current and upcoming regulations:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>GDPR (EU)</li>
<li>ePrivacy Directive (EU)</li>
<li>ePrivacy Regulation (EU)</li>
<li>PECR (UK)</li>
<li>LGPD (Brazil)</li>
<li>PIPEDA (Canada)</li>
<li>PDPB (India)</li>
<li>CCPA (California, US)</li>
<li>VCDPA (Virginia, US)</li>
<li>Colorado Privacy Act (US)</li>
<li>CPRA (California, US)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Cookie Compliance incorporates all recent formatting guidance:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)</li>
<li>ICO (United Kingdom)</li>
<li>CNIL (France)</li>
<li>GPDP (Italy)</li>
<li>BfDl (Germany)</li>
<li>AEPD (Spain)</li>
<li>European Center for Digital Rights (noyb.eu)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Cookie Compliance targets dark patterns</strong></p>
<p>Dark Patterns are user interface (UI) techniques that push site visitors to make decisions (such as agreeing to the installation of cookies on their devices) that they might not otherwise make. The most common Dark Pattern is the lack of an equal “reject all” button on the first layer of the consent notice. Dark Patterns are explicitly banned under GDPR and other data protection laws.</p>
<p>As a part of our proactive approach, Cookie Compliance is configured by default to prevent Dark Patterns through our unique Intentional Consent design.</p>


Compliance by Hu-manity.co

So yeah it's pretty bad, not sure why it looks so popular

Crappy bloated software that adds huge unhidable ads on your whole dashboard


This plugin is culprit, like many others, of the same bad practice which consists of abusing admin notices and alerts to remind them to you, the admin. A good plugin is one that does it job and you forget about it. Adding a "ignore notification" that does absolutely nothing (class cn-notice-dismiss) is woth a systematic 1/5.


Some admin notices can't be hidden: stop bloating our admin interface

Intentional Consent for WordPress — GDPR, CCPA, CPRA & ePrivacy compliance with consent records, autoblocking & Google Consent Mode v2.

XcooBee Corporate

<p>Since the inception of the GDPR and CCPA website owners have had the same problem.  How do we ask our users for their data in a privacy compliant way and how do we manage this data and their consent over life?</p>
<p>The answer to this is the XcooBee Form plugin for Data Consent. It allows you to ask for data and record consent automatically. You receive consent for every data point and its specific use.</p>
<p>XcooBee Forms are highly secure forms that you can use instead of or alongside your regular WordPress forms. Users interacting with secure forms also give you specific consent you need to be compliant and you or your company can manage consent via the XcooBee Privacy Network.</p>
<p>It is that simple.</p>
<h3>Process</h3>
<ol>
<li>You create a XcooBee campaign that defines the data you wish to Collect.</li>
<li>You create a short-code in the settings area</li>
<li>You can copy and paste your campaign shortcode anywhere inside your WordPress site blogs, pages, and posts.</li>
</ol>
<p>The shortcode inserts a button wherever you paste it on your page, including next to similar submit form buttons.<br />
Once clicked a XcooBee consent dialog is triggered. This behaves similar to PayPal window. Rather than asking for your PayPal payment it will ask for the information your sites needs from the user including the permission to use the data for the purposes you identified.</p>
<p>You site, then, receives the fully encrypted data package to use in the application.</p>
<h3>The Power Of XcooBee Supported Data Consent</h3>
<p>Once users use XcooBee to send you data your site will have a few advantages:</p>
<h3>Hardened against Phishing</h3>
<p>The XcooBee Data Consent pattern is hardened against phishing scams. Users are presented with unified language and information including security images that identify to them that the request is genuine.</p>
<h3>Transport and Storage Encryption</h3>
<p>XcooBee guarantees that all communication, storage, and transfer is over encrypted channels only. There is no user data that lives or transits through XcooBee without encryption.</p>
<h3>Fast Completion</h3>
<p>XcooBee allows users of the plugin to quickly fill in many data points. With one button click a user can answer the overall request. This lowers friction and speeds up transaction as well as lowering error rates.</p>
<h3>Sensitive Data Aware</h3>
<p>XcooBee never stores sensitive data such as financial and health information directly on its servers. Users are always asked to provide it from their devices or through re-entry.</p>
<h3>Bypass insecure Wifi</h3>
<p>Once the user has interacted with the XcooBee consent window, the data is prepared for transmission to your WordPress or processing site directly as identified in your campaign setup by the XcooBee backend. This transmission is from the XcooBee servers to your backend bypassing local wifi and insecure hotspots.</p>
<h3>Audience of One</h3>
<p>The user data is prepared via client and customer side PGP signatures to be only legible to the end destination, namely you. So even the XcooBee Network is not able to read the contents. The XcooBee Data Consent Plugin will automatically and transparently handle the decryption for your WordPress site before making data available.</p>
<h3>Detect man-in-the-middle attacks</h3>
<p>XcooBee event transmissions that have user data automatically include HMAC digital signatures that allow the receiving WordPress site to detect whether the data was modified in transport. The XcooBee Data Consent Plugin automatically decodes and evaluates all signatures and informs your WordPress site about trouble.</p>
<p>The XcooBee Data Consent Plug-in is an Add-on. It requires the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/xcoobee/" rel="ugc">XcooBee For WordPress</a> plugin to work correctly. You will need to install it first.</p>
<h3>Pre-Requisites</h3>
<ul>
<li>Users will need to have at least a free XcooBee account</li>
<li>Your will need a XcooBee Professional or higher subscription, you can test with a free Developer subscription</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why XcooBee?</h4>
<p>The battle over privacy will be the new frontier in security.</p>
<p>People should have the power to decide what happens to their data and how it is shared. Business need to have fair use to deliver the goods and services. XcooBee’s mission is to provide tools to accomplish this.</p>
<p>This is not only a good vision, but with the advent of the GDPR, a new business requirement.</p>
<p>Small and medium businesses do not have time to make tools or manage complex software. XcooBee aims to simplify this and make powerful tools available to WordPress sites as well as their customers. Most of these are available for free.</p>
<h4>How XcooBee works?</h4>
<p>We at XcooBee believe that privacy is not static and not the same for everybody.</p>
<p>We deliver tools, services, and techniques to allow individuals to control the exchange, distribution and management of their own information while allowing businesses fair use and compliance.</p>
<p>Tools we provide remove the complexity of compliance with GDPR when using WordPress. All this while improving the convenience and trust of the end-customers. A paid subscription to XcooBee is optional but recommended if you wish to use all the features.</p>
<h4>Built with developers in mind</h4>
<p>We support XcooBee and all its add-ons with comprehensive, easily-accessible documentation. With our docs, you’ll learn how to easily use and even extend our plugin.</p>
<h4>Add-ons</h4>
<p>WordPress.org is home to some amazing extensions for this plugin, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/xcoobee/" rel="ugc">XcooBee For WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/xcoobee-form/" rel="ugc">XcooBee Cookie</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/xcoobee-document/" rel="ugc">XcooBee Document</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/xcoobee-woocommerce/" rel="ugc">XcooBee WooCommerce</a></li>
</ul>


XcooBee Form

Collect information and data consent from users in GDPR and CCPA compliant way and automatically manage associated consent via XcooBee network.

Compliance by Hu-manity.co vs XcooBee Form