Seers-GDPR-CCPA-Cookie-Consent-Compliance/readme.txt

=== Seers | GDPR & CCPA Cookie Consent & Compliance ===
Seers: https://seersco.com
Contributors: alexreed2, seersgroup
Tags: GDPR, CCPA, Cookie Consent, Cookie banner, Cookie popup
Requires at least: 3.8 or higher
Tested up to: 5.9.2
Stable tag: 6.2.3
Requires PHP: 5.3.3
Author URL: https://seersco.com
Plugin URL: https://seersco.com/wp-cookie-plugin
Donate Link: https://seersco.com



FREE & simple to install plugin. Support GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, PIPEDA & DSGVO regulations. Customise to match your website theme.

== Description ==

Seers CMP (Cookie Consent Management Platform) enables you to implement Cookie Banner/ Cookie Notice on your website. 
Seers helps make websites compliant with GDPR (DSGVO), PECR and ePrivacy Directives.
Cookie Consent Plugin is intended to supplement individuals’ privacy rights and protections provided under all the privacy regulations in the European Union's GDPR, California's CCPA, Singapore's PDPA, South Africa's POPIA, UK's GDPR, Brazil’s LGPD, Canadian PIPEDA, Australia’s OAIC, China PIPL and more.
Obtain GDPR and ePrivacy Directive compliant consents, as well as services and cookies, and fill all your cookie banners with legal information.
The Seers Plugin is one of the best for WordPress GDPR Compliance which has features stated below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khUK9dZJ2dI

== KEY FEATURES ==

• Configure a Cookie Notice for specific regions like the EU, the UK, the USA, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, China or Canada. 
• Also, configure specific cookie consent for sub-regions such as the EU + GDPR/DSGVO/CNIL or the United States + CCPA. 
• Scan your Website Cookies so you can quickly enlist the cookies your website is using in the cookie and privacy policy.
• Get Cookie Consent and Conditional Cookie Notice with Customisable Templates and Custom CSS.  
• This cookie consent plugin adds a GDPR compliant cookie banner to your website at any position (header, footer, right, left, etc.) you would like. 
• Banner templates for UK/US/CA/AU with accept, reject and customisation buttons are included. 
• Automatically detects the requirement for a Cookie Banner or Cookie Notice and scans for updates in Plugins, Cookies, and third-party services regularly.  
• With the support of this WordPress GDPR plugin, you can fully customise the cookie notice style so that it blends in with your existing website’s theme. 
• It can modify the colors, fonts, styles, the location on the page, and even how it behaves when you click "Accept" or "Allow".
• Integrates with google consent mode and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). 
• Implementation of Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Clicky, Matomo, etc. Use Tag Manager and automatically anonymises IP addresses for Google Analytics if needed. 
• Blocks third-party cookies (Google Maps, AdSense, Recaptcha, ActiveCampaign, HubSpot, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. ), iFrames ( YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, etc. ) and social iFrames ( Facebook, Instagram, etc. ).
• Cookie Audit report to prove compliance and showcase what cookie your website uses. 
• Explicit Consent. Accept, Reject & Setting. GDPR Article 7
• Comes with the Admin Panel to control all the settings related to displayed cookies and their description. Cookie Banner settings, sizes, wordings, etc. 
• Cookie Database of 750,000 cookies pre-fill detected cookie data with clear and transparent cookie descriptions that are updated regularly. 
• Compatible with all browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Explorer & Edge. 
• Works with all the popular themes, including Divi, Elementor, and more. 
• Seamlessly integrates with local or other popular plugins, for example, Gutenberg Google Analytics, Google Maps Widgets, WP Forms, WP Google Maps, Easy Digital Downloads, Contact Form 7, WPBakery, Woocommerce, Gravity Forms, Divi, Elementor, Foeminator, Beehive, GADWP, and many more.   
• Support Options – Documentation and Online support
• Cookie compliance covers regional and sub-regional current and upcoming laws and regulations like,

1. EU GDPR (DSGVO): The General Data Protection Regulation 
1. PECR: The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
1. ePrivacy directive
1. France's CNIL: Commission Nationale Informatique & Libertiés
1. Canadian PIPEDA: The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act 
1. California CCPA, USA: The California Consumer Privacy Act 
1. Brazilian LGPD: The Brazilian General Data Protection Law 
1. Australian OAIC: Australia’s Privacy Principles
1. Chinese PIPL: Personal Information Protection Law 
1. Indian PDPB: Personal Data Protection Bill 

• If you want more cutting-edge features, You can visit [Seers Pricing Plan](https://seersco.com/price-plan) and choose the Premium package.


== PREMIUM FEATURES ==

FREE Features PLUS

• Manage multiple websites under one admin panel
• Google Consent Mode
• Child Privacy Consent Management 
• Prior Consent. Cookies don’t fire till user consent. GDPR Article 5
• Cookie policy. Required by GDPR article 12
• 5+ Banner Layouts & Preset Designs
• Scan Unlimited Subpages
• Manages Cookie Categories and list of cookies such as CookieID, Name, Description, Type, Category, Duration, Header & Footer Script. 
• Full customisation of buttons, styles, colors, and fonts resembling your own website's theme and style. 
• Displays the cookie banner in the header, footer, as a pop-up, or as a widget. 
• Enables to display cookie notice settings popup where site visitors can give consent to cookie categories. 
• Automatically scans and blocks scripts such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Pixel, Instagram, Facebook, etc. 
• The consent analytics dashboard allows you to track how visitors' consents and make adjustments accordingly. 
• Improve your cookie banner acceptance rate by monitoring progress via a consent activity graph.
• Enables users to have granular control over the cookies and scripts for websites. 
• Auto-update cookie consents when there is a change in the cookie policy. 
• Multi-Lingual Banners, automatically translate all banner text strings allowing custom translations – 30 languages
• Detect Geolocation
• Automatically generates cookie policy. 
• Banner as seen on UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office website
• Branding – Own logo
• Compatible with qTranslate, Polylang, WPML, etc.
• Cookie declaration Table including cookies purpose. PECR – Reg 6
• Consent Log. Record users consent is required by GDPR Article 30
• Customise Cookie Policy Design
• Compatible with major caching plugins and servers such as WP Rocket, WP Engine, Bluehost, W3 Total Cache, SG Super Catcher, etc.  
• Pre-configured to prevent Dark Patterns through our unique Intentional Consent design. 
• CCPA Banner – Opt-Out option
• World Class UK based Customer Support
• In line with the regulator’s age-appropriate design & code of practice. 


**Central Admin Panel**
Seers is the only cookie solution provider which enables you to control unlimited websites from one admin panel. This flagship feature helps developers and owners to manage all tasks from a central dashboard.


**Cookie Database**
Seers have a cookie database of over 750,000 cookies with its purposes. It synchronises the most recent description for cookies used in the cookie declaration table and cookie policy to fulfil the GDPR article 12 requirement.

**Cookie Notice**
CookieNotice JS is a very simple and small JS script with multi-language support for GDPR/DSGVO‎ transparency and notification purposes that provides an easy way to show a cookie notice on your website. In this notice ‘we’ and ‘our’ means Seers which operates this platform.

**Translation**
You can contribute to translate [GDPR & CCPA Cookie Consent | Seers](https://wordpress.org/plugins/seers-cookie-consent-banner-privacy-policy) on [translate.wordpress.org](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/seers-cookie-consent-banner-privacy-policy/) in your local language.

**Declaration**
This plugin uses API to create your free account.
Developing organisation: [Cookie Consent Plugin by Seers for WordPress](https://seersco.com/plugin/how-to-install-cookie-consent-banner-and-privacy-policy-in-wordpress-website#plugin)
You can read our terms of use [here](https://seersco.com/terms-and-conditions.html)
You can read our privacy policy [here](https://seersco.com/privacy-policy.html)
We use "Powered by Seers" and place a Link to Seers on banner.

**Disclaimer**
This plugin does not make your website compliant. You are still fully responsible for ensuring that all GDPR requirements and any local data protection regulations are met on your website.



== FAQ ==
Maybe there’s a lot of questions on your mind. See the FAQ on the main website and the setup guide for implementing the seers cookie consent plugin.

= The Cookie Banner is not displaying?

If your banner isn’t showing, please make sure:

1. After you installed and activated the plugin from WordPress, you should also activate it through our wp plugin settings by providing your email address, agreeing to terms and clicking the Activate button.
2. Please be patient. It can take up to 24 hours for the complete scan of your website after activating the plugin.
3. Check whether you have switched the banner toggle off in the plugin settings. (or unchecked the banner checkbox in the Seers Account Dashboard of cookie banner settings)

We hope that you have successfully displayed the banner on your website after following the steps mentioned above.

If you are still unable to see your banner or for any further assistance, please contact us at [support@seersco.com](mailto:support@seersco.com).

= This plugin blocks all the cookies?
Yes, the plugin blocks all the cookies except the ones marked as necessary. If you haven’t switched prior consent ON, then all the cookies will be automatically stored until a user disables those. In the other case, when the prior consent is switched ON, all the cookies will be blocked until the user allows them.

= Do this plugins provide full compliance with the law?
No, as a cookie consent plugin, it is difficult to know anything about specific circumstances on your website. This plugin can help you in the overall compliance process but can’t guarantee you full compliance with the GDPR, CCPA, LGPD and other regulations.

If you are looking for a privacy expert related to your website, you can always visit [seersco.com](https://seersco.com) or contact us at [support@seersco.com](mailto:support@seersco.com).

= Is the Cookie Consent plugin by Seers a Free product?
Cookie consent by Seers gives Standard features for free with a Promo code to WordPress Platform users only.

Upgrade to [Premium](https://seersco.com/price-plan) to get extra features.

= Do I need to edit my current WordPress theme?
No, Seers cookie consent is compatible with all word press themes.

= Is our website’s data legally safe with Seers Cookie Consent?
Yes, We do not record any personal or website data in Standard Packages.

= We have more than ten websites. Can we manage under one account?
Yes, you can add at least 10 domains to manage with our [Premium Packages](https://seersco.com/price-plan). You can [contact us](https://seersco.com/contact).

= I have a different question?
You can reach us at support@seersco.com
For more FAQs, please visit [Cookie Knowledge Bank](https://seersco.com/cookie-knowledge) and for any query, [contact us](https://seersco.com/contact).

= Does Real Cookie Banner find all cookies on my website automatically?
A cookie scanner could, but it will simply find cookies and will not be able to assess whether the personal data is being used legally. Furthermore, finding all cookies is quite complex, and most "cookie scanners" do not find all of them.

= When do I need a Cookie Notice?
Seers GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent will automatically decide this based on the regulations of the region or sub-regions from which the majority of your visitors come.
In terms of the CCPA, you must always disclose which cookies you are using, but there is no obligation in asking for consent.

= Does the Cookie Notice make my site fully compliant with GDPR?
No, technical compliance capabilities such as automatic script blocking, consent purpose categories, and consent record storage are not available in the plugin-only version. Only the Cookie Compliance integration gives you access to these features.

== Changelog ==

VERSION 6.2.3
• Cookieless version.

VERSION 6.2.2
• Arabic language styling fix
• Scotish language added
• badge is now enable on premium user

VERSION 6.2.1
• Errors of multilanguage fixed
• Added more languages

VERSION 6.2.0
• Update multilanguage using localization
• Minor errors messages fixed

VERSION 6.1.0
• Adjust font size dynmaically.

VERSION 6.0.0
• Updated direct banner on wordpress
• API preference button color added
• Settings admin portion changed how to create account at Seers
• Popups added

VERSION 5.6.1
• Support Not interested updated

VERSION 5.6.0
• Support and FAQs updated

VERSION 5.5.1
• Feedback email updated

VERSION 5.5.0
• Resolved confliction with Jetpack.
• Change the title of the menue item.

VERSION 5.4.1
• Setting messages updated and enable banner button text changed

VERSION 5.4.0
• Backend of plugin changed with images.


VERSION 5.3.1
• Activation button changed.

VERSION 5.3.0
• JQuery is replaced by vanilla javascript
• Woocommerce confliction updated using javascript

VERSION 5.2.2
• Setting message changed
• Setting Activate button location changed
• Features guidelines of plugin is changed

VERSION 5.2.1
• Update Admin Page content.

VERSION 5.2.0
• Adds privacy policy toggle switch.
• Negative days in Expiray days


VERSION 5.1.0
• Add option of Upgrade to premium.

VERSION 5.0.2
• Add video of how to do settings of banner.

VERSION 5.0.1
• Minor changes in multilanguage

VERSION 5.0.0
• Setting tab included for granual level setting
• Policy tab includes for adding a policy link
• Help tab for more user friendly support

VERSION 4.8.0
• Changed from CURL to HTTP API
• Change sanatize function where required
• Changed proper wp functions where required

VERSION 4.7.3
• Feedback from changes

VERSION 4.7.2
• Feedback from user included
• Activation Bar disappears after settings are completed.

VERSION 4.7.0
• Multilingual Banner support

VERSION 4.6.1
• Language po files updated
• Translations functions added

VERSION 4.6.0
• Prefix of database added

VERSION 4.5.0
• Add thumbnail to setting page video
• Add Language files
• Add Activation Bar


VERSION 4.4.0
• Updated CSS
• API


VERSION 4.2.0
• Change Cookie ID with Domain Group ID.
• Add link to get Domain Group ID.
• Adds congratulations message.
• Adds support email. 
• Tested with WordPress 5.4.2


VERSION 4.1.1
• Escape Characters Checks implemented.
• Tested with WordPress 5.4.2

VERSION 4.1.0
• Change to way how to paste Script.
• Setting ID message on Settings page.
• Tested with WordPress 5.4.2

VERSION 4.0.0
• Major structural changes in plugin.
• Setting Control shows in Admin Menu.
• Setting Link added.
• Tested with WordPress 5.4.2

VERSION 3.30
• Compatability issues fixed related to Gutenberg.
• Minor improvements.
• Notices fixed.
• Tested with WordPress 5.4.1

VERSION 3.20
• Bug fixed related to mobile landscape view.
• Tested with WordPress 5.4

VERSION 3.10
• Security fixes.
• Minor improvements.

VERSION 3.00
• Bug fixes and improvements.

VERSION 2.90
• Improvement related to image upload inside banner for branding of organisation.
• Improvement related to cookie saving.

VERSION 2.80
• Minor fix related to banner popup.

VERSION 2.70
• Bug fixed related to banner load speed.
• Minor fixes and improvements.

VERSION 2.60
• Cron Job of website scan task improvements.

VERSION 2.50
• Speed improvements.
• Bug fixed related to Page Level Cookie on all browsers.

VERSION 2.40
• Max loaded popups limit increased.

VERSION 2.30
• Code improvements.

VERSION 2.20
• Google Chrome and Internet explorer compatibility issue fixed.
• Popup speed improvements.

VERSION 2.10
• Code improvements.

VERSION 1.90
• Popup notifications section improvements.
• Fixed compatibility issues with Beaver Builder (page builder) plugin.
• Fixed compatibility issues with Divi Builder (Page uilder) Plugin.
• Speed improvements, related to banner popup.
• Unneeded CSS code removed.

VERSION 1.80
• Bug fixed related to banner.
• Added new parameter to banner.
• Typo fixes.

VERSION 1.70
• Added new feature to add custom JS and CSS codes.
• Big fixed related to banner loading events.

VERSION 1.60
• Added async image preloading to make Image popup loads faster.
• Code improvements and minor bug fixes.

VERSION 1.50
• Banner speed improvements.
• Banner triggering events synchronisation.

VERSION 1.40
• Fixed banners button loading.

VERSION 1.30
• WP compatibilty issue fixed.

VERSION 1.20
• Banner closing issue fixed.
• Speed improvements.

VERSION 1.10
• Code optimization.
• Bug fixed, related to Unsubscribe link in the newsletter.

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