Privacy Options

This documentation demonstrates the options you have in WPAdCenter to show ads to the users based on their consent

There are currently two methods in this privacy module, when enabled

• Show all ads without any consent - This will show ads in the front-end without any consent required, please note that this will also show personalized AdSense ads in the front-end if found any.

• Cookie - In this method if specified cookie name and value if the cookie is set with the specified name and value then ads will be shown in the front-end

Cookie

WPAdCenter by default doesn't show any consent notice in the front-end. Therefore, if you want to enable consenting, you need to integrate cookie consent plugins. Below you will find the table for the popular cookie consent plugins which contains cookie name and their value, so you can use them for the cookie method

Plugin	Cookie Name	Cookie Value
GDPR Cookie Consent	wpl_viewed_cookie	yes
Complianz	cmplz_consent_status	allow
Cookie Notice - Catapult themes	catAccCookies	1
Cookie Notice - dFactory	cookie_notice_accepted	true
GDPR Cookie Consent	viewed_cookie_policy	yes
GDPR Cookie Compliance	moove_gdpr_popup	this plugin has a cookie value with a string "<...>thirdparty<..> enter just thirdparty as a value
Ginger - EU Cookie Laws	ginger-cookie	Y
Quantcast Choice	euconsent	this plugin has a cookie value with a string "<...>BOzOg5COzOg5CAKAABENDJ-AAAAvhr<..> enter just BOzOg5COzOg5CAKAABENDJ-AAAAvhr as a value

Above are certain plugins which are integrated well with WPAdCenter for consenting, but if you have other plugins, and you know what cookie value and name they set on accepting consent? You could enter those exact cookie value and name in settings and the consenting would work fine, or you could raise a support forum in wordpress.org for the same, we would be happy to integrate it for you!

Show Non-Personalized Ads until consent is given

AdSense's ads can be of two type, Personalized and Non-Personalized ads. According to AdSense EU visitors requires consent for the personalized ads for now non-personalized need not require to have any consent but in future it might change. Until then, you could show non-personalized ads until user provides their consent to show them personalized ads

You can read more about personalized ads and non-personalized ads here

If you have enabled "Show non-personalized ads until the consent is given" Google AdSense ads will be shown as non-personalized and if disabled no google AdSense ads will be shown

How to check if AdSense is using personalized or non-personalized ads?

You can check those in browser console (Inspect element) under network tab, it should open using CTRL+SHIFT+I in Chrome browsers, navigate to network tab and reload the page and in the input box search for 'ads'

Personalized ads

ads?client=... are personalized ads

Nonpersonalized ads

ads?npa=1&client=... are non-personalized ads "npa=1" is a parameter set to show non-personalized ads.