Consent levels

It's possible to set consent independently for three categories:

1. essential cookie consent
2. tracking cookie consent
3. tracking consent

Essential cookie consent

Cookies that are considered essential:

• xcConsent holds information about consent levels:

  • essentialCookieConsent=true|false saves essential cookie consent (will never be false, because in that case it wouldn't be allowed to be set)

  • trackingConsent=true|false saves tracking consent

  • trackingCookieConsent=true|false saves tracking cookie consent

• xcSessId=node...  holds the current session ID

Tracking cookie consent

Saves tracking cookies if enabled. Tracks without cookies when disabled and when selected tracking implementation(s) support tracking without cookies.

• xcVisitorId  for recognizing a user across sessions, advisors or pages (also used for commerce
  tracking)

Matomo cookies

• _xcpk_ses.[matomoSpaceId].xxx , e.g. _xcpk_ses.33.1fff : matomo session data
• _xcpk_id.[matomoSpaceId].xxx , e.g. _xcpk_id.33.1fff : matomo visitor data

Tracking consent

Tracks the user with the configured tracking implementation(s). If tracking cookie consent is disabled and a tracking implementation doesn't support tracking without cookies, it does not track.

Setting consent

Integration URL

Consent may be set initially via the following integration url parameters

• xcEssentialCookieConsent=true|false  for setting essential cookie consent
• xcTrackingConsent=true|false  for setting tracking consent
• xcTrackingCookieConsent=true|false  for setting tracking cookie consent

Everything defaults to true if not set or to the conf key values if they exist.

<!-- begin excentos integration code -->
<script 
	src="//stage.excentos.com/demo/DE/app_Bike-Advisor/de_DE/loadadvisor?theme=default&xcEssentialCookieConsent=false&xcTrackingConsent=false&xcTrackingCookieConsent=false"> 
</script> 
<!-- end excentos integration code // start content area where Product Guide is displayed -->
<div id="xc_application">
	<div id="xc_application_pane"></div>  
	<div id="xc_loader"></div>
</div>
<!-- end excentos content area -->

Global function (advanced)

Once the advisor has been initialised, there is a global function available for changing consent. This may be used to pass consent changes to the advisor: window.xcSetConsent(consent), with

consent={
	trackingConsent: true|false,
	essentialCookieConsent: true|false,
	trackingCookieConsent: true|false,
}

Not all options have to be set. anything that's not passed will stay on the previous setting.

Example usage

Enable essential cookies and tracking, disable tracking cookies:

window.xcSetConsent({
	trackingConsent: true,
	essentialCookieConsent: true,
	trackingCookieConsent: false,
})

Disable tracking, keep all other settings:

window.xcSetConsent({
	trackingConsent: false,
})

Custom implementation

Custom implementation by excentos to connect an existing tracking tool via available interfaces to our consent management

Matomo notes

• Matomo is able to run without cookies
• When opting out of matomo, the cookie mtm_consent_removed is set
  • However if tracking is disabled initially, matomo won't be initialized and thus the cookie won't be set - only if it's disabled lateron
• Current implementation uses opt-out for matomo because when opt-in is required, cookie opt-in doesn' work anymore