cookieBAR is a free & easy solution to the EU cookie law.
There is a lot of mystery and fuss surrounding the new EU cookie legislation, but it's essentially really simple. Cookies are files used to track site activity and most websites use them. Site owners need to make the use of cookies very obvious to visitors.
Cookie bar makes it simple and clear to visitors that cookies are in use and tells them how to adjust browser settings if they are concerned.
Just place this somewhere in your website and forget it:
http://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cookie-bar/latest/cookiebar-latest.js
Everyone wants to see a demo before downloading something, isn't it? You can see a demo on cookie-bar.eu. You can even use the configuration wizard to make the bar more compliant to your needs.
cookieBAR is a drop-in and forget, pure vanilla javascript plugin, with no jQuery nor any other dependency needed. It shows up when needed and stay silent when not: if a website has a cookie or some localStorage data set then the bar is shown, otherwhise nothing happens.
Once user clicks Allow Cookies
cookieBAR will set a cookie for that domain with a name cookiebar
that will expire in 30 days. What this means is that the plugin will only show up once month (this duration is configurable).
If a user decides to click Disallow Cookies
, cookieBAR will simply remove all cookies and localStorage data (and will show up again the first time a cookie is detected).
Having a cookiebar
cookie makes it simple to developers to check the user decision before activating external scripts (such as Google Analytics, or anything else). See http://cookie-bar.eu for more informations.