WP Brizy Cookie Information (Storage & Funktion)

Susanne Clara

• December 17, 2020 12:14

Hello my Browser shows me you are including the folowwing cookies on the my WP Page. Can you tell me how long you store them and how you use them? 

1. brz-firstVisit
2. brz-showedPopupsInSessionTimeLine
3. brz-sessions
4. brz-lastVisit
5. brz-pagesViews
6. brz-pagesViewsInSessionTimeLine

I need this information to put it in my Cookie Page for our Website visitors. 

Thank you! 

Greetings

Susanne 

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  Sandra Prunici

  • December 18, 2020 09:20

  Hi,

  The cookies are used to store some details in the browser for faster access to the information. In your case, I suppose that you have some Brizy pop-ups on the page, therefore it is stored the information about the access on the site to understand how to open the pop-ups because now you can add some display conditions to the pop-ups. Here, you can find where are stored the cookies and here you can find how long it will be saved on the browser. Here isn't a correct response because each site is different.

  Thanks!

  Best regards,
  Sandra

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  Viktor M

  • December 23, 2020 07:25

  Hi Susanne and Sandra,

  I find the same cookies on one of our websites too. We use the Generate Press (GP) theme and it seems these cookies kick in the mobile version only and prevent the (GP) hamburger menu from working. The menu works fine in non-Brizy pages. We don't use any Brizy pop-ups whatsoever. Why are these cookies used and how can we avoid them in our situation?

  Sandra, how could I send you privately the link to the website for you to take a look?

  Many thanks and best wishes,

  Viktor

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  Sandra Prunici

  • December 23, 2020 13:54
  • Edited

  Hi Viktor,

  You can send us here the URL link of the site to investigate this inconvenience. If you don't want to make it public, let us know and we will delete it before approving your message. Having the URL we could investigate also what Brizy cookies are stored in the browser. I checked on my test site but I didn't find some Brizy cookies. See here.

  Thanks!

  Best regards,
  Sandra

   

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  Viktor M

  • January 12, 2021 12:31

  Hi Sandra,

  I replied over email but probably it didn't reach you.

  The website is  (PLEASE DELETE WHEN PUBLIC) and I also don't find any cookies stored locally. However, Cookiebot reports 6 Brizy cookies as in this report (PLEASE DELETE WHEN PUBLIC)

  Again, if not accepted, these cookies break the mobile menu. Cache was clear and even disabled. What could be going wrong?

  Many thanks,

  Viktor

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  Viktor M

  • January 12, 2021 14:11
  • Edited

  It seems Cookiebot is finding some non-typical cookies in

  /wp-content/plugins/brizy/public/editor-build/163-wp/editor/js/preview.js

  As Sussane wrote initially. What is this file for? The website seems to be working fine without it but Cookiebot still finds the cookies elsewhere.

  Here is a paragraph from Cookiebot's explanation on their advanced scanner:

  It is also important to understand that many cookies are so-called dynamic cookies. These – unlike ‘classical’ http/Javascript cookies – are not being set when the website is loaded. They are being set during the visit depending on the user’s behavior on your website.

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  Sandra Prunici

  • January 13, 2021 12:56
  • Edited

  Hi Viktor,

  I checked the site you send us but I didn't find any cookie-related with Brizy. See here. The cookie you found may be related with the preview mode. If you check the cookies when you see on the page from the preview mode https://jmp.sh/z5jk8yz, then it is possible to generate the cookie you talk about in the last reply. This is not shown when the page is in live mode.

  Also, from the report, the source and initiator for the cookie find by Cookiebot is the Autoptimize plugin. See here https://jmp.sh/cuDQg4Z.

  Best regards,
  Sandra

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  Viktor M

  • January 13, 2021 14:49

  Hi Sandra,

  As I said, the browsers don't see these cookies but Cookiebot and Complianz.io (WP plugin) detect them. Run a check by either and you will see them show up.

  Viktor

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  Sandra Prunici

  • January 13, 2021 16:54

  Hi,

  Could you please deactivate the Autoptimize plugin and after 10 minutes to generate another report? From the report you send us, as we show you in the last screenshot, these cookies aren't generated by Brizy but by Autoptimize.

  Best regards,
  Sandra

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  Viktor M

  • January 13, 2021 17:36

  Hi Sandra,

  I deactivated all caching. You can generate a new report from https://www.cookiebot.com/en/ yourself for any site.

  Thanks,

  Viktor

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  Sandra Prunici

  • January 14, 2021 14:05

  Hi,

  Thank you for all these details. We could identify them and already send a request to our team. Please allow us a bit more time as we need to check and investigate this a bit deeper.

  Thanks!

  Best regards,
  Sandra

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  Viktor M

  • January 14, 2021 18:10

  Wonderful news Sandra! Thank you very much for the support and please keep me posted on the issue.

  Best wishes,
  Viktor

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  Complianz GDPR/CCPA

  • January 15, 2021 07:41

  Hi Viktor and Sandra,

  This is Leon from Complianz, the plugin used to detect these cookies.

  I would like to add that these cookies are actually placed in local storage, that is why they don't appear on your screenshot. The easiest way to detect them is via the front-end -> inspect -> application -> local storage.

  The most important question would be to find out the functionality of these cookies, we can then determine whether prior consent is required. 

  If consent is needed, the best way to manage this is by integrating with the WP Consent API, or directly with Complianz. I linked to documentation for both solutions. Feel free to reach out to us for any help.

  Kind regards,

  Leon Wimmenhoeve
  Complianz

   

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  Sandra Prunici

  • January 15, 2021 12:21

  Hi Leon,

  Thank you for your implication and reply to this post. We could already identify them and our team are already informed about this aspect.
  We will take into consideration your proposal. If we will find needed, we will contact you for more details.

  Thank you!

  Best regards,
  Sandra

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  Christian Lueters

  • February 11, 2021 11:59
  • Edited

  Hi Sandra and the Brizy investigation team,

  "Thank you for all these details. We could identify them and already send a request to our team. Please allow us a bit more time as we need to check and investigate this a bit deeper."

  This has been a month ago, I assume that you found the time to investigate... Is there an outcome that is relevant to the public? Can you share your results please?

  Thanks, C.

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  Sandra Prunici

  • February 11, 2021 15:47

  Hi Christian,

  I'm sorry but for the moment we didn't receive a notification from the team regarding this inconvenience and question. We are investigating this case and when we will have some certain responses will immediately inform you here. In this month we had and continue to have a lot of planned work and releases for new features and options we work a lot (Blog on Cloud, Membership for Brizy WordPress and more other amazing features). Please allow us a bit more time for this.
  Thank you for your understanding and patience.

  Best regards,
  Sandra

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  Ulrich Schirm

  • March 27, 2021 17:29

  Hi Sandra,

  your answer is urgently awaited regarding the six cookies mentioned above to get cookie banners lined up with DSGVO regulations:

  1. Classification (function)
  2. Storage time

  Any progress so far?

  Kind regards,
  Uli

   

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  Sandra Prunici

  • March 29, 2021 13:28

  Hi Uli,

  These cookies are used for pop-up logistics. They store information about how many time was displayed or opened/closed the pop-up. It is related to global pop-ups and internal pop-ups. They are created automatically and their information is deleted when is deleted the site&host cache and cookie.

  Best regards,
  Sandra

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  Viktor M

  • March 30, 2021 12:08

  Hi Sandra,

  Thanks for the clarification. The problem still remains that they are active even if the website or page uses no pop-ups whatsoever. Is your team looking into amending this?

  Many thanks,

  Viktor

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  Sandra Prunici

  • March 30, 2021 16:11

  Hi Viktor,

  These cookies don't store some information about visitors, their data and therefore doesn't break the GDPR rules. They are related only to the pop-ups' activity. 

  Best regards,
  Sandra

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  Ulrich Schirm

  • March 30, 2021 16:16

  Hi Victor,

  here is my understanding: By declaring the cookies necessary for the pop-up functionality, those cookies can be stored even prior user consent. They store no personalized information, so in my opinion this would cause no interference with DGPR.

  Uli

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  Viktor M

  • March 30, 2021 17:57

  Thanks Sandra and Uli!

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  Complianz GDPR/CCPA

  • March 30, 2021 20:19
  • Edited

  Hi Everyone,

  Just our two cents.
  
  Strictly speaking, these cookies should be declared as anonymized statistical cookies and can be set prior to consent in EU countries, if these are stored locally and data is not stored and shared, anywhere or to anyone. If not, you will be looking at a consent status for Germany, and other EU countries.
  
  As a similar example: https://cookiedatabase.org/cookie/elementor/elementor/
  
  Please make sure you take both GDPR & ePrivacy in consideration, whereby the latter is about cookies.

  regards Aert

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  Ulrich Schirm

  • March 31, 2021 10:01

  Hi Aert,

  thanks for this clarification.

  How can these cookies be declared as "anonymized statistical" in the cookiedatabase.org. Can you do it, or should it be done by the Brizy team? This would ease the use of the Complianz plug-in a lot.

  Uli

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  Sandra Prunici

  • March 31, 2021 10:04

  Hi Aert,

  Thank you for your message. Yes, these cookies are stored locally and used for statistics and internal analytics. See here.

  Best regards,
  Sandra

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  Complianz GDPR/CCPA

  • March 31, 2021 10:09

  Hi,

  @Uli, I will add them to cookiedatabase.org.
  @sandra, great!:)

  regards Aert

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  Ulrich Schirm

  • March 31, 2021 10:26

  Hi Sandra,

  on the screenshot you linked, the cookie description is: "Registers statistical data on user' behavior".

  It does not say, that data is anonymized. User consent prior cookie storage in EU is not required, only if data is anonymized.

  Can you please confirm, how anonymization is implemented in the storage of user data.

  In my opinion: It would be highly desirable that Brizy does not store any "statistical data on user' behavior" with respect to privacy considerations!

  Uli

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  Sandra Prunici

  • March 31, 2021 15:18

  Hi Uli,

  Thank you for the message. All these data aren't stored on the Brizy servers but are stored internally and aren't shared by Brizy. 

  Best regards,
  Sandra

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  Ulrich Schirm

  • April 19, 2021 06:50

  Hi,

  I found a new cookie on my website, it is called "brz-authorized". Can you please explain the function of this cookie? Thanks.

  Uli

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  Sandra Prunici

  • April 19, 2021 15:50

  Hi,

  Are you using the Brizy Membership Functionality? If you are using it, this cookie stored the information about the logged user, certainly the user role and if he is authorized to view and have access to a certain block.

  Best regards,
  Sandra

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  Ulrich Schirm

  • April 20, 2021 13:44
  • Edited

  Hi Sandra,

  I do not use the membership functionality at all and I never did. Nevertheless I found this cookie. How can I explain my visitors this cookie in the privacy statement, please?

  Uli

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