The Privacy Bar is one part of the Avada Privacy Tools, which help you facilitate GDPR compliance. For a detailed look at the full range of Privacy Tools in Avada, see the GDPR And Avada Privacy Tools document. But in this document, we are looking solely at the Avada Privacy Bar.

This Avada Privacy Bar is highly configurable, giving you everything that you need to keep your website visitors informed of any cookies, third part embeds and/or custom implementations that may affect their data privacy.

It will handle 3rd party embeds, tracking codes, and any custom cookie contents that you may require. The settings are found in Avada > Options > Privacy tab. Enabling Privacy Bar option will give access to additional options that will help in customizing the privacy bar. Continue reading below to know more about the full options available in the Privacy tab, and watch the video below for an overview of all the privacy tools offered in Avada. The Privacy Bar section is at 3:35.

Below is what your website visitors will see by default when you enable the privacy bar. Basic wording added, with the default location placement at the foot of the website.

There are a range of Global Options that will make it possible for you to personalize and style up your privacy bar, giving you the ability to inform your website visitors regarding data privacy and handling. There are styling options, layout options and content options. Below is an example of what a final result could look like:

For added flexibility, the privacy bar content areas will accept Avada Elements like buttons, font awesome icons, images etc. that will help you set up a professional and elegant notification for your website visitors. Adding Elements to text areas is now as easy as a right click on the Element and paste into the text area.

There are a range of styling and layout options. Leave it as a simple notification bar by setting Privacy Bar Settings to ‘Off‘, enabling this option will when clicked slide and out, displaying additional notification information for your visitors.

There are also many Privacy Global Options found at Avada > Privacy. These options work in conjunction with the other Avada Privacy features.

Avada as an entity does not violate GDPR criteria because it does not collect any data. What does need to be compliant is the end user website, not the software/framework a website is built on. What we as a team have done, is to give our Avada userbase the tools necessary to ensure that their websites are GDPR compliant. These privacy tools and options were introduced in Avada 5.5.2, released May 22nd, 2018.

The Privacy Elements options in the Avada Global Options are located in Avada > Options > Privacy section. These are global options that will affect all your Privacy element instances unless otherwise specified within the individual element options.

Google Fonts Mode – Choose between Local or CDN. When set to Local, the Google fonts set in Global Options will be downloaded to your server. When set to CDN, it will use the Google CDN.

Privacy Consent – Allows you to prevent embeds and scripts from loading until user consent is given.

Privacy Consent Cookie Expiration – Allows you to set how long the consent cookie should be stored in days.

Privacy Consent Types – Allows you to set the types of embeds you would like to require consent. Choose between Tracking Cookies, Google Maps, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, SoundCloud, Vimeo, or YouTube.

Privacy Selected Consent Types – Allows you to set the types of embeds which you would like to be checked by default. This applies to both the privacy bar and the privacy element.

Privacy Placeholder Background Color – Allows you to set the background color for the privacy placeholders.

Privacy Placeholder Text Color – Allows you to set the text color for the embed placeholders.

Privacy Bar – Allows you to enable a privacy bar at the bottom of the page.

Privacy Bar Padding – Allows you to set the top/right/bottom/left paddings of the privacy bar area.

Privacy Bar Background Color – Allows you to set the background color for the privacy bar.

Privacy Bar Font Size – Allows you to set the font size for the privacy bar content.

Privacy Bar Text Color – Allows you to set the text color for the privacy bar content.

Privacy Bar Link Color – Allows you to set the link color for the privacy bar.

Privacy Bar Link Hover Color – Allows you to set the link hover color for the privacy bar.

Privacy Bar Text – Allows you to set the text which you want to appear on the privacy bar.

Privacy Bar Button Text – Allows you to set the button text for the privacy bar acceptance.

Privacy Bar Button Save On Click – If enabled, when the button is clicked it will save the default consent selection. If disabled, the button will only save the preferences after a checkbox has been changed (the bar will be hidden, however).

Privacy Bar Settings – If enabled, a settings section will be added to show more information and to provide checkboxes for tracking and third-party embeds.

Privacy Bar Settings Text – Allows you to set the link text for the privacy bar settings.

Privacy Bar Update Button Text – Allows you to set the button text for the privacy bar after a checkbox has changed.

Privacy Bar Heading Font Size – Allows you to set the font size for the privacy bar heading text.

Privacy Bar Headings Color – Allows you to set the text color of the privacy bar heading font.

Privacy Bar Content – This uses a repeater field to select the content for each column. Click the “Add” button to add additional columns. Choose between Custom, Tracking Cookies, or Third Party Embeds, and add a Title and Description for the content.

The Privacy Element is a small Element you can easily add to your privacy policy page, or wherever it fits best for your site. It will display checkboxes for all services you chose, and will show, to each of your users, which of the services they have consented to, and which they have not. They can also easily update their consents within the element. Please continue below to read more about this important privacy element.