A cookie policy is a list of all the cookies in use on your website with detailed information about each tracker made available for end-users to provide them with insights into how their personal data is being processed when visiting your domain.<\/p>\n
Think of your website\u2019s cookie policy as a map of all the tracking technologies that make up your domain\u2019s data processing structure, which would otherwise be operating out of sight for visitors.<\/p>\n
As a key part of being compliant with most major data privacy legislations in the world (including the EU\u2019s GDPR, California\u2019s CCPA\/CPRA, Brazil\u2019s LGPD and South Africa\u2019s POPIA), your website\u2019s cookie policy must always be up to date and should answer the following questions \u2013<\/p>\n
What types\/categories of cookies are set?<\/p>\n
What categories of personal data is processed by the cookies?<\/p>\n
What are the purposes of each cookie on your website?<\/p>\n
How long do the cookies stay on end-user browsers?<\/p>\n
Where in the world is end-user data sent to and what third parties is it shared with?<\/p>\n
How can end-users choose whether to allow cookies to process their data or not, and how can they later check or change their consent state?<\/p>\n
The difference between a privacy policy and a cookie policy is that a privacy policy includes all the different ways your website and\/or business might be collecting, processing, and storing data from users \u2013 both offline and online, whereas a cookie policy is specifically about the tracking technologies embedded on your website that process personal data from end-users.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why websites often include a cookie policy in their privacy policy, as a subsection detailing one of the ways in which the business is processing data.<\/p>\n