How to make your Reactive Website GDPR compliant

How to make your Reactive Website GDPR compliant

The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). It also addresses the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas. The GDPR aims primarily to give control to individuals over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU.

Reactive is fully GDPR compliant, however, you need to perform some actions in order to make your business GDPR compliant.

What actions should I perform?

Navigate to the "Applications" section in the left menu of your admin panel. 

Under the "Applications" section, you'll see a list of available apps compatible with your website. These applications are designed to help improve your website’s compliance with various regulations, including GDPR.

Find the GDPR Cookie Banner app, click on it to open the app settings page.
Click on "Install" located at the top right corner of your screen.
A pop-up window will appear. Confirm the installation by clicking "Install" again. 

Once installed, go to the App Settings tab to configure the cookie banner according to your website’s needs.

App Settings Section

Once you’ve installed the GDPR Cookie Banner, you can customize the settings under the App Settings tab. Here’s what you can adjust:

Overview Section

Cookie Visibility 

Optional: This option will show the cookie consent box at the bottom of your website's screen. However, customers will be able to browse your website with no interruption and without ever accepting your cookie policy.

Having this mode enabled, the tracking scripts for Meta Pixel are disabled and your Google Analytics is set to anonymous tracking. Once the user accepts your cookies everything is enabled.

Mandatory: This option will show the cookie consent box at the top of your website's screen. Your customers will not able to perform any action on your website unless they choose how they would like their cookies to be treated by your website.

Having this mode enabled, the tracking scripts for Meta Pixel are disabled and your Google Analytics is set to anonymous tracking. Once the user accepts your cookies everything is enabled.

Consent TextCustomize the text that explains why cookies are being collected.

About Text
Provide more detailed information about your website’s cookie policy or privacy terms.

Allowed Domain
Define the domain where the cookie banner should be shown. 

Necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They are placed on the user’s browser regardless of whether they consent to cookies or not.

Preferences Cookies
These cookies are used to remember users' preferences and settings. They are placed on the user’s browser only after they have accepted the cookies.
You can add your own preferences cookies if you are using a 3rd-party injected code. To do this, click the "New Cookie" button and enter the relevant details.

Statistics Cookies
These cookies collect information about how users interact with your website, such as which pages are visited most often and if users receive error messages.
Like the preferences cookies, you can add statistics cookies if you are using third-party tracking tools, by clicking the "New Cookie" button.

Marketing Cookies
These cookies are used to track users across different websites for advertising purposes. They are placed only after the user consents to cookies.
You can add your own marketing cookies if you use third-party marketing services. To add them, click the "New Cookie" button and provide the necessary cookie details.


Set up your Legal Documents

Visit your website's settings from the left sidebar of your Reactive Admin Panel and click on Legal settings.

On this page, you can define the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Please refer to the legal documentation for more information on how to do that.

Create Pages on your website's Footer

The final step is to visit the pages section of your Reactive website and create the following pages.

Terms of Service. The text must be identical to the one you have added under your legal settings.

Privacy Policy. The text must be identical to the one you have added under your legal settings.

Cookie Policy. Provide detailed information about your website’s cookie policy. 

You can refer to our documentation about the pages and content creation for detailed information about the tools that Reactive gives you.

Add the pages to your website's footer. 

Once you are done creating the legal pages you need to visit Navigation from the sidebar menu of your admin panel under Website. Create a footer navigation, if you haven't done that already, and add the newly created pages to your footer. 

You can refer to our documentation about How to Create a Navigation and How to Assign Navigation Items for more information.


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