Django cookie policy

django-cookie-policy is a reusable application for managing visitors consent with respect to the cookies law in Django project. It allows a server side control of all the feature of the website that are cookie-related.

Features

• a variable called cookie_accepted is added automatically to all the templates
• cookie acceptance banner and cookie policy page are already available for customization
• cookies are stored in the visitor browser
• a decorator (cookie_policy.decorators.cookie_policy) that can be used to redirect the visitor to the cookie policy page when it has not been accepted.

Configuration

1. Add cookie_policy to your INSTALLED_APPS.

2. Add django.core.context_processors.request (if it is not already present) and cookie_policy.context_processor.cookie_policy to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS.

3. Include django-cookie-policy urls in urls.py:

   url(r'^cookies/', include('cookie_policy.urls'))
   

Usage

In order to display the cookie policy banner, just add the following lines to your templates:

{% if not cookie_accepted %} {% include 'cookie_policy/banner.html' %} {% endif %}