What are cookies?
Cookies are a way for websites to store user information, along with sessions, which is the way to establish the start and end or duration of a process.
It is a file that is created by third parties to be downloaded to the user’s computer with the intention of collecting information and storing it in the browser for a certain time.
If you use Google analytics, Google adsense, SEO plugins, jetpack, or premium themes, you have cookies that are working for you so that the user navigates through your blog in a more pleasant and in many cases personalized way.
What do cookies do for me?
- They collect data to create statistics.
- They collect user preferences.
- They store preferences to display advertising according to the tastes of the visitor.
- They prevent you from having to log in again every time you visit the blog you like.
Why is there a cookie law?
Very simple, statistics are becoming more segmented and that is why we need to warn our blog readers that we use cookies to collect all the information that helps us optimize our advertising, and if they agree with it. Anyone can also create a cookie to collect certain data and store the information they wanted in the visitor’s browser, this is the darkest part of cookies, so we must ask our visitors for consent. If you want more information about the cookie law, it is best to go to the State Data Protection Agency, which is responsible for all matters related to privacy.
You have to make a page for cookies, you can store it next to the terms and conditions, purchase conditions, sales policy all those that we must have just in case. First, create a page indicating the cookie policy, I recommend that you adapt it to your language and the type of blog you have, in it you should highlight three aspects, if you think you should expand on more explanations later.
What are cookies:
Cookies are files that are installed in the browser to improve the user experience by collecting data to create statistics, preferences and other data necessary to improve some blog services.
What type of Cookies does this page use?
There is a problem here because sometimes we don’t even know it ourselves, that’s why I’ve made a crappy WordPress plugin that, as we end up installing a thousand plugins, some of them can use cookies and we don’t know. Take advantage and so you have a very useful thing to do, which is to create a function plugin to add more functionalities to WordPress. The most normal thing is that you use two cookies that are those of Google, therefore this is the case for WordPress, blogger and any website that shows advertising or analytics:
- Google Analytics: Cookies to perform analytics:
These are the ones that collect information for third parties and serve to compile statistics, calculate time on the page, location and other data of interest. - Google Adsense: Cookies to display advertising, They are the ones that collect user preferences for third parties and allow us to make an optimized selection of advertising content as well as help us optimize our advertising spaces.
Elimination of cookies:
If you want to delete the cookies that we have installed in your browser, we recommend these methods:
- To delete cookies in the Firefox browser, click here.
- To delete cookies in the Chrome browser, click here.
- To delete cookies in the Explorer browser, click here.
- To delete cookies in the Safari browser from here.
- To delete cookies in the Opera browser: Opera
How to place the cookie notice place the cookie notice for WordPress:
The easiest thing is to use any plugin for this, in my case I use Cookie Law Info which is very easy to use and modify and I have not observed compatibility problems with my other blogs.
Before installing it, create your cookie page to inform your visitors, how to see it in WordPress is very simple.
Place the cookie notice for blogger:
There is a method if you don’t want to install an extra plugin, or you don’t like to program a lot, which is this page that generates a cookie notice, customizable and for any platform: Cookie script.
