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Cookie consent checker for feedback widgets

Answer five questions about the survey or feedback widget on your site. You'll see whether it likely needs consent before it loads, and what to ask your vendor about anything you're not sure of.

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Your feedback widget

1. Does it store anything on the visitor's device, such as cookies or local storage?

For example, a cookie that stops the survey from showing again after someone answers.

2. Does it record sessions, clicks, scrolling or mouse movement?

Session replays and heatmaps often come with survey tools that are part of an analytics suite.

3. Does it recognise visitors across pages or visits?

Through a visitor ID, a tracking cookie or browser fingerprinting, for example to target surveys by behaviour.

4. Does it keep visitors' IP addresses?

Many tools store the IP address with each answer, or use it to work out location.

5. Does it ask for names or emails, or link answers to signed-in users?

For example an email field, or answers tied to the account of the person who is logged in.

Result

Check with your vendor

It depends on the answers you're not sure of. Ask your vendor the questions below.

Questions for your vendor

  • Which cookies or local storage entries does your widget set, and what is each one for?
  • Does your script record sessions, clicks or mouse movement, and can that be turned off completely?
  • Do you assign visitors an ID or use fingerprinting to recognise them across pages or visits?
  • Do you store IP addresses with answers or in logs, and for how long?
  • Are answers linked to a name, email or user account, and can that be switched off?

General information about EU rules, not legal advice. National laws and the UK rules differ in places.

A feedback widget with nothing to consent to

Asklet sets no cookies, uses no tracking identifiers and keeps no IP addresses, so you can ask for feedback without adding another entry to your cookie banner.

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How to use the cookie consent checker

  1. 01

    Answer what you know

    Pick yes, no or not sure for each question. The tool's privacy policy or cookie list usually has the answers.

  2. 02

    Read the verdict

    It says whether the widget likely needs consent under EU rules, and why.

  3. 03

    Ask your vendor the rest

    Each "not sure" becomes a question you can send to your vendor.

When a feedback widget needs consent

Under the EU ePrivacy rules, a website needs consent before it stores or reads information on a visitor's device, unless that is strictly necessary for a service the visitor asked for. This covers cookies, local storage, tracking IDs and browser fingerprinting.

Feedback widgets often do one of these to remember who has already answered, to target surveys by behaviour, or to record sessions. Any of them can mean the widget should only load after the visitor agrees.

Consent is not the only rule

GDPR applies whenever you handle personal data, cookies or not. IP addresses, emails and answers linked to signed-in users are personal data: you need a lawful basis, they belong in your privacy notice, and you can't call the answers anonymous.

This is not legal advice

The checker gives general information about EU rules. National laws, and the UK rules, differ in places, so check your own setup with a legal adviser.

Common questions

Do survey widgets need a cookie banner?

Only if they store or read information on the visitor's device that isn't strictly necessary, such as cookies, tracking IDs or session recordings. A widget that stores nothing on the device does not need consent for that.

Is local storage treated like cookies?

Yes. The ePrivacy rules cover any information stored on or read from the visitor's device, so local storage, session storage and similar techniques need consent on the same terms as cookies.

Do heatmaps and session recordings need consent?

In the EU, generally yes. They read data from the visitor's device and aren't needed to show the page, and recordings can capture personal data typed into the page.

Is an IP address personal data?

Usually, yes, under GDPR. Storing IP addresses does not need a cookie banner by itself, but you need a lawful basis and it must be covered in your privacy notice.

Does Asklet need a cookie banner?

No. The Asklet widget sets no cookies, uses no tracking identifiers and keeps no IP addresses. The only thing it keeps on the device is a short note, deleted after 3 hours, that a survey was answered on a page, so the reader isn't asked twice. We treat that as strictly necessary, and it is listed in our cookie policy. Check your own setup with your legal adviser.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is general information about EU rules to help you ask the right questions. For a decision about your site, ask a legal adviser.

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