GDPR-Extensions.com

<p>The <strong>Google Reviews List LocalLoad Solution</strong> by GDPR-Extensions.com is a plugin designed to help website owners display authentic Google reviews on their WordPress sites without compromising data privacy. Key features include:<br />
1. Seamless Integration: Sync reviews directly from Google accounts.<br />
2. Local Data Storage: Ensures compliance with GDPR regulations.<br />
3. Customizable Display Options: Adjust styles to match your website.<br />
4. Fast Load Times: Optimized for performance.</p>
<h3>Features and Customization</h3>
<h3>Dashboard Features (GDPR-Extensions.com)</h3>
<h4>Reviews Hub:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Centralized hub to organize and manage your Google reviews.</li>
<li>Connect Google accounts securely using OAuth 2.0.</li>
<li>Filter and select reviews for specific websites.</li>
</ul>
<h4>API Key Management:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Generate unique API keys for each Reviews Hub for seamless plugin integration.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plugin Features (WordPress)</h3>
<ol>
<li><strong>API Key Integration</strong>: Connect your WordPress site to your configured Reviews Hub.</li>
<li><strong>Fetch Reviews</strong>: Automatically retrieve and sync reviews into your WordPress project for display.</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Review Display</strong>:
<ul>
<li>Add the Google Reviews List block to any post or page.</li>
<li>Customize elements such as text color, background color, and layout options directly within the WordPress editor.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Display Management</strong>:
<ul>
<li>Reviews are stored locally for fast access.</li>
<li>Users can update or remove displayed reviews anytime by re-syncing through the plugin.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<ol>
<li><strong>API Communication:</strong> The plugin connects to the <strong>GDPR-Extensions.com</strong> API to fetch and authenticate reviews securely.</li>
<li><strong>Authentication & Security:</strong>
<ul>
<li>The API key is required for authentication and is stored locally on the user’s WordPress site.</li>
<li>Secure <strong>OAuth 2.0</strong> authentication ensures user data protection.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Data Handling:</strong>
<ul>
<li>User reviews are stored locally on the WordPress site after fetching them from <strong>GDPR-Extensions.com</strong>.</li>
<li>No sensitive user credentials are stored in the plugin.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Consent Management:</strong>
<ul>
<li>The plugin does not track users or collect unnecessary data.</li>
<li>The API only processes the reviews selected by the user.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin integrates with <strong>GDPR-Extensions.com</strong> to securely fetch and manage Google reviews while ensuring <strong>GDPR compliance</strong>. The integration enables website owners to display Google reviews locally while maintaining privacy and control over their data.</p>
<h3>API Endpoints Used by the Plugin</h3>
<p>The plugin makes API requests to the following URLs:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Authenticate API Key:</strong><br />
  https://dashboard.gdpr-extensions.com/review/api/{reviews_api_key}/authenticate-key.json<br />
This endpoint verifies the API key of your site through our dashboard at gdpr-extensions.com.</li>
<li><strong>Fetch Reviews:</strong><br />
  https://dashboard.gdpr-extensions.com/review/api/{reviews_api_key}/reviews-list.json<br />
Once the API key is authenticated, this endpoint retrieves reviews associated with it.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Data Handling Policy</h3>
<h4>Objective:</h4>
<p>This plugin complies with GDPR regulations by ensuring secure, transparent, and minimal data handling. Below are the details:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Google Reviews Integration</strong>
<ul>
<li><strong>Purpose:</strong> Fetch and sync Google reviews for local display.</li>
<li><strong>Data Sent:</strong> Upon user authentication via OAuth 2.0, the plugin fetches reviews data (e.g., content, ratings, timestamps). No sensitive credentials are stored.</li>
<li><strong>Data Storage:</strong> Reviews are stored locally for fast access and offline reliability.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>gdpr-extensions.com Service</strong>
<ul>
<li><strong>Purpose:</strong> Manage reviews via the Reviews Hub.</li>
<li><strong>Data Sent:</strong> Users manually copy an API key from the GDPR-Extensions.com dashboard. Data syncing only occurs upon user action.</li>
<li><strong>Data Storage:</strong> Data remains accessible locally on the WordPress site. No unnecessary data is transferred.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Security and User Control</strong>
<ul>
<li>All data handling complies with GDPR.</li>
<li>Secure encryption is applied to data transfer and storage.</li>
<li>Users can manage, update, or delete reviews via the plugin interface.</li>
<li>Data is never shared with unauthorized third parties.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<p>For more details, review our privacy policies:<br />
-[Google Privacy Policy] (https://policies.google.com/privacy)<br />
–<a href="https://policies.google.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Terms of Service</a><br />
–<a href="https://www.gdpr-extensions.com/gdpr-solutions/our-local-load-solutions/google-reviews-list/terms-of-use" rel="nofollow ugc">GDPR-Extensions.com Terms</a><br />
–<a href="https://www.gdpr-extensions.com/gdpr-solutions/our-local-load-solutions/google-reviews-list/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">GDPR-Extensions.com Privacy Policy</a></p>
<p>This ensures full transparency in data usage, aligning with <strong>GDPR compliance</strong> for privacy and security.</p>
<h3>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)</h3>
<h4>What is the LocalLoad Solution?</h4>
<p>The LocalLoad Solution ensures that your Google reviews are stored securely on the GDPR-Extensions.com dashboard and fetched to your WordPress project via an API key. This minimizes data exposure and ensures compliance with GDPR regulations.</p>
<h4>How does the plugin store and fetch reviews?</h4>
<ol>
<li>Reviews are first stored securely on the GDPR-Extensions.com dashboard.</li>
<li>After creating a Reviews Hub, users copy the unique API key generated for their hub.</li>
<li>The API key is entered into the plugin’s customization page in WordPress.</li>
<li>The plugin fetches the reviews to be displayed locally on the WordPress site.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Do I need an account on GDPR-Extensions.com to use this plugin?</h4>
<p>Yes, an account is required. You will use the dashboard to connect your Google account, manage reviews, and generate the API key needed for the plugin to function.</p>
<h4>Is my data secure?</h4>
<p>Absolutely. All data transfers use secure encryption, and reviews are stored locally on your WordPress project. No data is shared with unauthorized third parties.</p>
<h3>Contact</h3>
<p>For questions or support, reach out to us at support@gdpr-extensions.com.</p>


GDPR-Extensions-com – Google Reviews List Localload Solution

Short Description: Showcase Google Reviews on WordPress with GDPR compliance and secure local data storage using the LocalLoad Solution plugin.

Humanityco

<p><strong>Cookie Notice</strong> provides a simple, customizable website banner that can be used to help your website comply with certain cookie consent requirements under the EU GDPR cookie law and CCPA regulations and includes <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>Cookie Notice (plugin only)</h3>
<p>Cookie Notice 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>


Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA

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

Cookie Notice allows you to you elegantly inform users that your site uses cookies and helps you comply with GDPR, CCPA and other data privacy laws.

GDPR-Extensions-com – Google Reviews List Localload Solution vs Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA