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Consent Cookie

Format of the Commanders Act Consent cookie.

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The received via the onsite API is now the official way to access the consent settings of Commanders Act Consent with JavaScript. The direct usage of the consent cookie is deprecated.

Commanders Act Consent stores the consent of website visitors in a 1st party cookie.

This article only explains the consent cookie. you can find a list of all Commanders Act Consent cookies.

Name

The default name of the consent cookie is TC_PRIVACY. It can be configured in Data Governance > Consent > Settings.

Domain

The cookie is set as a 1st party cookie. The subdomain/domain of the cookie can be configured in Data Governance > Consent > Settings

Value

The value consist of multiple fields separated by @ symbols. The separator can be configured in Data Governance > Consent > Settings .

The consent cookie format is not 100% guaranteed to stay stable. We try to keep the format as stable as possible and extend it with "append only approach (adding new information with a new @)", but changes might happen in the unforeseeable future due to limited storage space in cookies.

The cookie value follows following pattern (optional elements are wrapped in []).

<status>@<privacy_version>[|<tcf_version>]|<banner_id>|<site_id>@<consent_categories>@<blocked_on_categories>@<updated_timestamp>,<creation_timestamp>,<to_expire_timestamp>[@<tcf_vendor_consent_string>]

Field

Description

Example Value

<status>

Status that indicates if a visitor provided his optin or optout.

1: Visitor is optout

0: Visitor is optin

<privacy_version>

Version of the privacy banner the visitor interacted with.

008

<tcf_version>

Version of the IAB TCF framework. Only available in case IAB is activated for the account and an IAB banner is used to manage consent. It follows this format:<tcf_global_vendor_list_specification_version>|<tcf_policy_version>|<tcf_global_vendor_list_version>

2|2|42

<banner_id>

ID of the privacy banner the visitor interacted with.

12

<site_id>

ID of the site in the Commanders Act Platform.

34

<consent_categories>

Comma-separated-list of optin, or optout categories. Meaning depends on <status> field. E.g. when <status> is 0 then the visitor provides consent for the listed categories. The value is URL encoded. Therefore the comma separator is replaced with %2C. Some old banner versions might have the value ALL in case all categories are opted out.

2%2C12%2C13

<blocked_on_categories>

Comma-separated-list of blocked on categories. The value is URL encoded. Therefore the comma separator is replaced with %2C. These categories are not repeated in the <consent_categories> field.

2%2C12

<updated_timestamp>

UNIX timestamp for when the consent was last updated

<creation_timestamp>

UNIX timestamp in milliseconds when the consent was provided.

1592900933049

<to_expire_timestamp>

UNIX timestamp for when the consent will expire

<tcf_vendor_consent_string>

Vendor consent information (e.g. for IAB TCF vendors). Only available when vendors are activated for the account and in case vendors are used in the banner. The value is compressed and encoded to keep the cookie size small.

AAAAAjkb23...

Examples

Example1: Optin for some categories

0@002|12|3441@1%2C3@4@1592900933049@1592900933049

Field

Description

0

Visitor is optin.

002

Visitor provided optin on banner version 002.

12

Banner ID is 12.

3441

Site ID is 3441.

1%2C3

Visitor provided optin for categories 1 and 3.

4

The category 4 is blocked on.

1592900933049

Visitor provided optin on Tue Jun 23 2020 08:28:53.

Example 2: Optout for all categories

1@012|26|4221@@4@1592900933049@1592900933049

Field

Description

1

Visitor is optout

012

Visitor provided optin on banner version 012.

26

Banner ID is 26.

4221

Site ID is 4221.

Visitor provided optout to all categories.

4

The category 4 is blocked on.

1592900933049

Visitor provided optout on Tue Jun 23 2020 08:28:53.

Good to know: special characters such as "@" or "|" are encoded in the cookie value %2C = "," %7C = "|" %40 = "@"

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