General Data Protection Regulation is an EU data regulatory policy to keep organizations in check when transacting with European customers.
Due to the heavy way e-commerce is driven on customers’ data, this is to ensure that customers’ privacy is intact and not breached while they transact with many websites.
That is why today, you will find websites asking their webpage visitors for consent to access their data and ensure that they are in safe hands while they provide their personal information as they transact.
Hence, the use of the cookie consent bar to inform and make website visitors give their consent to providing personal details as well as showing that the website is guided by this EU regulation.
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In this article, we would be going through two Shopify apps that can help you create a cookie bar for your website.
Storebundle VS Booster: EU Cookie Bar GDPR
Storebundle is a Shopify app that helps you create the most suitable website for your visitors or customers to use. In e-commerce, running an online web will require that your customers are best served.
With the Storebundle app, you can create pop-up bars for discount deals, welcome mats, make your sold count visible to viewers, display your website’s visitors count, create a cookie bar, and many more.
Booster Cookie Bar is an app that allows you to pop the cookie consent bar on your website whenever there is a visitor.
Booster and Storebundle take a simple path in setting up a cookie bar. You get to provide the text you want to display for the cookie bar and add a URL linking to your privacy policy page.
These apps also give you a customization board where you can choose a color, change the button text, and button border. Before clicking the save button, you can preview what your cookie bar would look like.
Storebundle however, provides you the opportunity to have one app that runs all the errands for your Shopify store. Using one app to achieve multiple task help you keep your website speed sane and not slow it down when there are multiple apps installed.