Flexible Consent Management Refinements

For flexibility when it comes to global data privacy laws and in order to ensure comprehensive support for CCPA/CPRA and other US data privacy regulations, we have added a number of more powerful and granular configuration options that can be easily configured via our Admin experience. These include:

Blocking Mode: This gives you additional control over how we block cookies and scripts and has four options:

• Disabled: No blocking of cookies and scripts will occur.
• Discovery: Identifies and lists cookies and scripts for categorization, without blocking them.
• Permissive: Allows only Strictly Necessary and Unclassified cookies and scripts to run prior to user consent. Categorized cookies and scripts will be blocked until user consent is received.
• Strict: Only permits Strictly Necessary cookies and scripts to run until user consent is received. This mode is required for full GDPR compliance.

Consent Mode: Privacy laws and regulations often have a key difference in how user consent must be capture. GDPR and other similar regulations typically require active user opt-in, or express/explicit consent, while United States laws like CCPA/CPRA only require implied/implicit consent. We now allow you to choose which mode is used within any given project in your Concord organization. Here are the options and how they work:

• Implied: Automatically triggers implied consent opt-ins for all privacy setting categories. Users can then choose to opt-out afterwards via your enabled consent banner or privacy center options.
• Express: Users must actively accept or alter their consent settings via the consent banner or privacy center. This mode is required for GDPR compliance.

Banner Mode: This allows you to enable or disable the consent banner. Useful if you only want to give your users access to privacy center or when using discovery mode above to classify your cookies and scripts.

Consent Banner Button Options: We have also added a “Close Button [X]” option to the consent banner settings, and added full visibility and configuration settings for all of the consent banner buttons.