Cookiefy

<p>Cookiefy provides enterprise-grade GDPR compliance for WordPress websites through an intelligent cookie consent management system. The plugin connects to the Cookiefy service to automatically detect, classify, and manage cookies while providing visitors with proper consent options.</p>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT:</strong> This plugin requires connection to external Cookiefy services to function. Please review the “External Services” section below for complete details on data transmission and privacy implications.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Automatic Cookie Detection</strong> – Advanced AI-powered scanning detects all cookies on your website</li>
<li><strong>Intelligent Classification</strong> – Automatically categorizes cookies (Necessary, Analytics, Marketing, Preferences, Unclassified)</li>
<li><strong>Multiple Core Modes</strong> – Choose between Standard, Lenient, or Strict blocking based on your needs</li>
<li><strong>Premium Banner Themes</strong> – Professional designs including Comprehensive and Compact Modern styles</li>
<li><strong>Real-time Updates</strong> – Cookie settings sync instantly across your website</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Integration</strong> – Full AJAX support with proper nonce security</li>
<li><strong>Custom Configuration</strong> – Advanced JSON configuration for power users</li>
<li><strong>Performance Optimized</strong> – CDN delivery with script preloading for fast load times</li>
</ul>
<h4>Core Modes</h4>
<p><strong>Standard Mode (Recommended)</strong><br />
* Balanced GDPR compliance with optimized performance<br />
* Blocks cookies and essential tracking scripts<br />
* Maintains good site compatibility<br />
* Best for most WordPress websites</p>
<p><strong>Lenient Mode (Lightweight)</strong><br />
* Minimal cookie blocking for maximum compatibility<br />
* Only blocks cookie writes – scripts load normally<br />
* Best page performance with reduced privacy protection<br />
* Ideal for complex JavaScript applications or performance-critical sites</p>
<p><strong>Strict Mode (Advanced Users Only)</strong><br />
* Maximum GDPR compliance with comprehensive blocking<br />
* Blocks scripts, DOM modifications, network requests, and localStorage<br />
* May cause website functionality issues<br />
* Only recommended for advanced users who can handle potential breakage</p>
<h4>Service Integration</h4>
<p>This plugin connects to the Cookiefy external service (https://cookiefy.app) to:<br />
* Retrieve cookie classification data for your domain<br />
* Access banner configuration and translations<br />
* Synchronize consent preferences (optional)<br />
* Provide compliance reporting and analytics</p>
<p>You must create an account at Cookiefy to obtain a Domain ID for the plugin to function. The service processes cookie data according to its privacy policy.</p>
<h4>Banner Themes</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Comprehensive (Recommended)</strong> – Feature-rich banner with detailed cookie information and customization options</li>
<li><strong>Compact Modern</strong> – Clean, minimal design optimized for mobile and desktop</li>
</ul>
<h4>WordPress Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>AJAX Integration</strong> – Seamless consent handling without page reloads</li>
<li><strong>Security First</strong> – Proper nonce verification on all AJAX requests</li>
<li><strong>Caching Compatible</strong> – Works with all major WordPress caching plugins</li>
<li><strong>Admin Integration</strong> – Full WordPress admin interface with live status updates</li>
<li><strong>Consent Logging</strong> – Optional compliance logging for audit purposes</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p><strong>REQUIRED EXTERNAL SERVICE DISCLOSURE</strong></p>
<p>This plugin relies on external services provided by Cookiefy to function. By installing and activating this plugin, you acknowledge that your website will connect to and transmit data to third-party services.</p>
<h4>Primary Service: Cookiefy Cookie Management Platform</h4>
<p><strong>Service Provider:</strong> Cookiefy (cookiefy.app)<br />
<strong>Service Purpose:</strong> Cookie consent management, cookie classification, and GDPR compliance functionality</p>
<p><strong>What data is sent:</strong><br />
* Your website’s domain name (for service authentication and configuration)<br />
* User consent preferences and timestamps (when users interact with the consent banner)<br />
* Basic website analytics data (page views, consent rates, banner interactions)<br />
* Referrer information and page URLs where consent events occur</p>
<p><strong>When data is sent:</strong><br />
* During plugin initialization (domain verification and configuration retrieval)<br />
* When the consent banner loads on your website<br />
* When users interact with the consent banner (accept, reject, customize)<br />
* When cookies are detected and require classification<br />
* During banner configuration updates in the admin panel</p>
<p><strong>Service endpoints used:</strong><br />
* <code>https://api.cookiefy.app/api/cdn-config/</code> – Configuration and cookie classification data<br />
* <code>https://api.cookiefy.app/api/cookie-db</code> – Cookie classification database<br />
* <code>https://api.cookiefy.app/api/report-unknown-cookie</code> – Unknown cookie reporting</p>
<p><strong>Legal documentation:</strong><br />
* Terms of Service: <a href="https://cookiefy.app/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">https://cookiefy.app/terms-of-service</a><br />
* Privacy Policy: <a href="https://cookiefy.app/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://cookiefy.app/privacy-policy</a></p>
<h4>CDN Service: Cookiefy Content Delivery Network</h4>
<p><strong>Service Provider:</strong> Cookiefy CDN (cdn.cookiefy.app)<br />
<strong>Service Purpose:</strong> Fast, reliable delivery of consent banner scripts and assets, powered by cloudflare.</p>
<p><strong>What data is sent:</strong><br />
* HTTP requests for JavaScript files and assets<br />
* Standard web server logs (IP address, user agent, referrer)<br />
* Your website’s domain name (in request headers)</p>
<p><strong>When data is sent:</strong><br />
* Every time a visitor loads a page on your website (to fetch banner scripts)<br />
* During initial plugin setup and configuration</p>
<p><strong>CDN endpoints used:</strong><br />
* <code>https://cdn.cookiefy.app/wp-cookiefy-core.min.js</code> – Core cookie blocking, and GDPR compliance functionality<br />
* <code>https://cdn.cookiefy.app/wp-cookiefy-ui.min.js</code> – Standard banner interface<br />
* <code>https://cdn.cookiefy.app/wp-compact-cookiefy-ui-modern.min.js</code> – Compact banner interface</p>
<p><strong>Legal documentation:</strong><br />
* Same as primary service (Cookiefy terms and privacy policy apply)</p>
<h4>Data Processing Legal Basis</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Legitimate Interest:</strong> Cookie classification and service delivery</li>
<li><strong>Contractual Necessity:</strong> Providing the cookie consent management service</li>
<li><strong>User Consent:</strong> Analytics and reporting features (where applicable)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Data Retention and Geographic Processing</h4>
<ul>
<li>Configuration data: Retained for the duration of active service subscription</li>
<li>Analytics data: Retained for up to 24 months for reporting purposes</li>
<li>User consent records: Retained according to legal requirements (typically 3 years)</li>
<li>Processing locations: European Union and United States data centers</li>
</ul>
<h4>Your Control and User Rights</h4>
<ul>
<li>Users can request data deletion through the Cookiefy dashboard</li>
<li>You can disable analytics collection in the plugin settings</li>
<li>The service complies with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations</li>
<li>You can export your consent data through the Cookiefy dashboard</li>
</ul>
<h4>Alternative Solutions</h4>
<p>If you prefer not to use external services, consider:<br />
* Self-hosted cookie consent solutions<br />
* WordPress-only cookie plugins (with limited functionality)<br />
* Custom development for your specific requirements</p>
<p><strong>By using this plugin, you acknowledge that:</strong><br />
1. Your website will connect to and transmit data to Cookiefy services<br />
2. You have reviewed and accept Cookiefy’s terms of service and privacy policy<br />
3. You understand the data transmission requirements for the service to function<br />
4. You will inform your website visitors about these external connections as required by law</p>
<h3>Support and Documentation</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Documentation</strong>: <a href="https://cookiefy.app/en/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://cookiefy.app/en/docs/</a></li>
<li><strong>Support Center</strong>: <a href="https://cookiefy.app/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">https://cookiefy.app/contact</a></li>
<li><strong>Service Website</strong>: <a href="https://cookiefy.app" rel="nofollow ugc">https://cookiefy.app</a></li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin requires a Domain ID from your Cookiefy account. Sign up for a free trial to get started with enterprise-grade cookie compliance.</p>
<h3>Privacy and External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin integrates with the Cookiefy service (cookiefy.app) to provide cookie management functionality. When active, the plugin:</p>
<ul>
<li>Connects to Cookiefy CDN servers to load optimized scripts</li>
<li>Retrieves cookie classification data and banner configurations</li>
<li>May synchronize consent preferences with the service (configurable)</li>
<li>Processes Domain ID for service authentication</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Data Handling:</strong><br />
* No personal data is transmitted without explicit user consent<br />
* Cookie detection and classification occurs through the external service<br />
* Consent data can be stored locally or optionally synchronized<br />
* All data transmission uses secure HTTPS connections</p>
<p><strong>Required External Connections:</strong><br />
* <code>https://cdn.cookiefy.app/</code> – For loading optimized banner and core scripts<br />
* <code>https://cookiefy.app/</code> – For configuration and classification data</p>
<p>The plugin respects user privacy and only processes data necessary for GDPR compliance functionality. Please review Cookiefy’s privacy policy at their website for complete details on data handling practices.</p>
<h3>Technical Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or higher</li>
<li>HTTPS recommended for secure cookie handling</li>
<li>Domain ID from Cookiefy account</li>
<li>JavaScript enabled on visitor browsers</li>
</ul>
<h3>Customisation beyond</h3>
<p>It is possible to have a completely custom banner with the blocking script, for more information on how to achieve this, contact support@cookiefy.app</p>


Cookiefy GDPR Compliance

GDPR-compliant cookie consent management with automatic cookie detection and intelligent classification.

clym

<h3>Website Compliance Simplified</h3>
<p>With Clym, you can expect a software solution that covers all global data privacy regulations, including the GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, and more. Our platform allows you to manage consents, legal documents, and data subject requests all in one place.</p>
<h3>Installation guide</h3>
<p>Here is a <a href="https://knowledge.clym.io/how-to-install-clym-on-a-wordpress-website-with-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">step-by-step guide for installing</a> Clym on your WordPress website using the Clym Plugin</p>
<h3>Solutions</h3>
<h3>Consent management</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Business friendly approach:</strong> Using Clym helps your attorneys sleep better at night,but what about your marketing team? We’ve got them covered too: the data is thelifeblood of your marketing team’s efforts to drive top-line revenues. That’s why at Clym we believe in striking the right balance between legal compliance and marketing optimization. Our platform allows the maximum amount of data to be collected in accordance with the regulation imposed by your website’s visitors.</li>
<li><strong>A user interface and experience customers expect:</strong> You put a lot of money into the look and feel of your website, and we’re not here to intrude. Our customizable platform provides you with the ability to have the look and feel you want: widget placement, color scheme and branding for your company can reduce the friction your website visitors experience when browsing your website.</li>
<li><strong>Global Coverage:</strong> New regulations are introduced into law on a regular basis and existing regulations are frequently amended. Clym’s platform configures the location-specific settings needed to ensure you are set up for success.</li>
<li><strong>Easy to implement:</strong>  We’re here to reduce your headaches associated with data privacy law compliance, so our cookie consent manager starts working on your website with a simple copy and paste of Javascript code. We have default settings for all major data privacy laws around the globe, and our clean, crisp user interface makes it easy to customize how you want your website to look and feel. And if you run into questions, our support team is available around the clock to assist.</li>
<li><strong>Audit trail:</strong> For every visit to your website a record of given consent is registered through our tool, which helps you have an audit-ready trail of data. This way you are always prepared to show when, where, why, what and how consent was obtained.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Data subjects’ requests</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Collect and store DSARs:</strong>  Clym’s Privacy Widget not only collects your website visitors’ consent, it also allows your visitors to submit DSARs</li>
<li><strong>Verify submitted requests:</strong> When a DSAR is submitted through Clym’s Privacy Widget, an email is sent to the individual that made the request in order for them to validate the request through the verification link within that email. This is a precaution against spam requests.</li>
<li><strong>Notifications:</strong> You can view all requests submitted by your customers in real time by logging into your account. In addition to viewing DSARs within your admin console, you can also assign one or more email addresses to receive a notification any time a new request has been verified by the user, keeping you up to date with everything.</li>
<li><strong>Efficient reply system:</strong>  Clym makes it easy for you to timely respond to DSARs through your admin console so that all responses and correspondence are time-stamped and tied directly to the request. Also, to save time for you and your team, Clym provides default reply templates for various types of requests, that can be customized as needed, based on your preferences and language.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Policies and other legal documents</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Manage Terms, Policies, Agreements, and Procedures:</strong> Clym helps you simplify and streamline policy management, adaptable by jurisdiction. Create, update, and communicate policies at any time, in a transparent way, letting users know what the latest version is and when it was updated. Manage public or private agreements and procedures.</li>
<li><strong>Embed and share policies:</strong>  All policies, agreements and procedures managed through Clym can be easily included in your domain or shared with partners by using embed codes and unique document URLs. Whenever a new document version is created, we automatically sync and update it everywhere.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features:</h3>
<h3>Continuous website scanning</h3>
<ul>
<li>This feature gives you comfort in knowing you are up-to-date with the categorization and   classification   of   your   scripts   and   cookies.   It   scans   every   visited   page, <strong>automatically</strong> without affecting the <strong>website’s performance</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy widget</h3>
<ul>
<li>The Clym widget is regulation and location specific covering <strong>35+ privacy regulations (including GDPR, CPRA, LGPD), 40+ languages</strong>, and it lets users interact with <strong>legal documents, terms, contracts, DSARs, and policies</strong>, relevant to their location.</li>
<li>The widget is customisable to ensure the user’s seamless navigation experience: you can add a logo and choose the colors to display in order for the design to <strong>follow your brand guidelines, select the privacy widget’s position</strong> that best suits the flow of your website visitor and <strong>make opt-in and opt-out</strong> easy by clearly presenting their options.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Geofencing</h3>
<ul>
<li>Clym uses IP addresses of your website visitors to determine where they are and automatically   show   them   the   legal   content   relevant   to   their   country   or   region: location-specific  scripts,   cookies,   and   legal   documents,   content   language   set <strong>automatically</strong>, and allow users to <strong>toggle between</strong> languages and jurisdictions.</li>
<li>Clym’s robust settings allow you to adhere to all location-specific privacy regulations by using Clym’s <strong>database of regions and countries</strong> with their corresponding data privacy laws, add and  <strong>customize jurisdictions</strong>  for less common locations, and <strong>adjust</strong> the widget, cookie settings, documents, and other features of each jurisdiction.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Insights</h3>
<ul>
<li>Get a 360° data overview of all your website consents and DSARs along with audit-ready data reports through <strong>round-the-clock</strong> updates on page views, cookies, scripts, and   consents,  <strong>user-friendly</strong>  statistics   dashboard,  <strong>transparent</strong>  consent   analytics broken down into categories.</li>
<li>Keep track of  <strong>open, in progress, overdue, or closed DSARs</strong>, analyze requests filtering them by  <strong>device type, browser, regulation, country, language</strong>, and use visual charts and graphs for clean <strong>reports showing DSAR changes over time</strong>.</li>
<li>Use predefined filters and views to obtain accurate data that will help you improve consent rates and brand perception. You have the ability to <strong>analyze pageviews</strong> by country, device, browser language and type,  <strong>check consent changes in time</strong>  by cookie/script purpose category and consent type, <strong>apply detailed filters</strong> to display all the information you need to acquire customer data fairly</li>
</ul>
<h3>Embedded content</h3>
<ul>
<li>Let users know what their consent is needed for, what data they disclose, and who will receive it. You can <strong>automatically</strong> block external resources collecting user data without prior consent, add iFrames from another site  <strong>directly to your website</strong>  to embed content in a compliant manner, and  <strong>display the consent message</strong>  layer before loading the iFrame to keep your visitors informed</li>
</ul>
<h3>Localization</h3>
<ul>
<li>If you only use simple privacy content, you don’t need to hire a translator. Clym offers turnkey translations for the most common consent purposes, such as labels or cookie classification available in <strong>30+ languages</strong> through <strong>legally-approved</strong> translations.</li>
<li>You can also upload your own translations of complex documents, such as terms of service or privacy policy through the <strong>customizable</strong> appearance and behavior of the privacy widget and an <strong>easy to use editor</strong> that doesn’t require technical skills to add translations.</li>
</ul>


Cookiefy GDPR Compliance vs One interface for Cookie Consent and DSAR Compliance. Covering GDPR, CPRA and more.