The privacy policy cookie switch allows the user to change his privacy policy settings, for example to enable or disable cookies.
Privacy policy cookie switch
These are the same privacy settings that are also controlled via the cookie banner.
The cookie switch is often used on privacy pages to give users the option to change their cookie preferences at any time.
Please note that the cookie switch only works online or in preview mode.
The cookie switch is disabled in the page editor. By clicking on the OpenCms icon (“target”) in the editor toolbar at the top left, you can temporarily switch to online preview mode and check the functionality of the cookie switch.
The following groups of cookies can be controlled via the cookie banner (de) and the privacy policy cookie switch function:
Necessary
These cookies are essential for the operation of the site and store, for example, the selection of which cookies may be used.
External content
Content from video platforms, social media platforms, or map providers is blocked by default. If cookies from external media are accepted, access to this content no longer requires manual consent.
Statistics
In order to further improve our offering and our website, we collect anonymized data for statistics and analysis. With the help of these cookies, we can, for example, determine the number of visitors and the effect of certain pages of our website and optimize our content.
Note: This group is only displayed if an analytics service (de) is actually configured for the pages.
The Matomo analytics service is able to track visits to the website without cookies simply by executing JavaScript. This option must be activated separately; for details, see the description of Matomo integration (de).
If Matomo tracking via JavaScript is active, this is displayed in the “Privacy Cookie Switch” function. The user then has the option to actively object to tracking via JavaScript (“opt-out”). To do this, the user must click a checkbox. In this case, a cookie is stored indicating that the user does not want to be tracked with JavaScript.
The opt-out option described here is only displayed if tracking via JavaScript is configured and the user has rejected statistics cookies.
Matomo also offers the option of evaluating the browser's “Do Not Track” header and refraining from tracking page views in this case. This must be set on the Matomo server. If this is set, the matomo.jst property in OpenCms must be set to the value true: dnt. In the “Privacy Cookie Switch” function, a message is then shown to the user that their page views are not being tracked.