I am just restarting work on my file after a 2 week lay off. I have done globals for headers, footers, social media etc. and now as I am replicating my current site (e-commerce) I have got to the bit about cookie acceptance. Is there a way of doing the numerous “cookie stacks” for RW and Classic that are available in Elements or this on roadmap? TIA
A Cookie component is on the Roadmap, however, I can’t say exactly when that’ll make an appearance — hopefully it’ll be within the next few weeks 
THANKS for your quick response that’s great to know. I will carry on today and come to something I can not do - as always - and I will be back asking questions again no doubt. Have a great day!
well that would be more than handy as in the UK a site must comply with GDPR, so must at minimum offer the option to accept cookies
The fines for failure are substantial.
Has anyone built a quick workaround while waiting for a baked-in solution from RW?
Are you registered with ICO? If so you will be given a tier of fines dependent on size of your business. You will ONLY be fined if you misuse personal information or use cookie for direct marketing AGAINST the persons knowledge. You also have to follow Data Protection laws if you hold any customer/client information and have a policy for breach of your system and reporting to ICO. The link you put is for giant organsaitions but there is a questionnaire to fill in on ICO site to see whether you have to register and what tier you buisness is in.
That page is for all UK organisations.
If your UK business processes data then it should be registered with the ICO & comply with GDPR. The fines scale, as you say.
Cookies are part of that personal data ecosystem in GDPR. I gave up wondering why a long time ago. Simply storing personal data - including cookies - without consent is a breach of the law. Which is why every live UK (& EU) site you visit has a cookie consent form.
I’m astonished that having GDPR Cookie compliance isn’t already available in Elements, as any Elements site set live that collects personal data as defined by GDPR won’t be compliant unless a 3d party cookie management tool is used.
As I mentioned above, a Cookie Component is definitely on our list — we just haven’t gotten to it yet.
None of the built-in Elements components collect any user data, so, to the best of my knowledge, if you’re only using those a cookie component shouldn’t be required. You’d obviously need one if you add any form of analytics, or anything else that tracks/stores user data.
In the meantime, there are plenty of third-party cookie solutions available that let you easily paste a code snippet into your site. That would solve any cookie compliance needs you might have right now
I have been registered with ICO for over 5 years. I have it in writing from them that the maximum penalties they can impose are 4% of your annual worldwide turnover. Unless you’re running a major corporation I think you’re over estimating the fines. Mine is under 10k if I did a data breach. As I don’t store cookies nor use them for marketing as my client base is disabled and over 50 I know I am safe and I state everything in my privacy policy to say so. I have worked with ICO to ensure I am compliant?
Thanks Ben that’s good to know
I made no estimate of the fines. A maximum fine of 4% of turnover is still up to 4% of turnover, regardless of the size of your business
Strictly, storing data brings the data under the GDPR, even if you don’t make use of it.
& if you email a client you’re making use of their data.
My reason for posting was to flag up to RealMac that some sort of Cookie Management tool is going to be needed - and it would make sense to have something compliant that’s ready-made.
If there were fines they’d fall on RealMac’s customers - but there’s a potential reputational risk for RealMac if Elements had no ready-made tool for this.
You’d not offer a web building tool without the ability to make it accessible: keeping data compliant is much the same thing.
& on adding a 3d party tool it’s asking to be placed in the Head
Which seems hard to do in Element’s WYSIWYG - another reason to have an HTML editor, maybe?
@thecustomer thanks for this but as my original post asking for this over 30 days also highlighted the need. The answer was the same then as it is now 30 days later. It’s in the roadmap and you can use a third party one. I am well aware of ICO regs and as I said have had my ICO certification for over 5 years, if you actually ring them they will help you. IMO you’re worrying about something you don’t need to as all you have to do is work with ICO. The 4% is the MAXIMUM fine and if you are worried your going to be fined then you need to look at your policies and procedures as GDPR is complex and cookies is only a minuscule part of GDPR.
It’s easy to integrate HTML anywhere into an Elements built website (including the header area). Here’s a quick video explaining how things work in a bit more detail.
P.S. @thecustomer are you using Elements? and if so do you need any help with your project? If yes, just let us know and I’m sure we’ll be able to help you out 
https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/
I used this site..it created a cookie banner and privacy policy and a cookie policy
all free…
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