Cookies and storage

By default, the Didomi CMP uses first-party cookies to store consent information. Consent is stored in the base domain and shared across all the subdomains of the base domain where the SDK is deployed.

Example: If you install Didomi on www.domain.com, consents will be stored in a cookie on .domain.com and all sub-domains of domain.com will have access to the same consent information.

If you want to store the first-party cookie on a specific sub-domain, you can add this option into the configuration.

Consents will be shared only to pages with this specific sub-domain.

window.didomiConfig = {
  cookies: {
    local: {
      customDomain: 'privacy.your-domain.com'
    }
  }
};

The Didomi SDK uses two cookies and local storage items for storing user consent:

  • didomi_token for non-IAB vendors and purposes

  • euconsent-v2 for IAB vendors and purposes

The name of the didomi_token and euconsent-v2 cookies can be modified if you want to use a different name by setting the cookies property:

window.didomiConfig = {
  cookies: {
    didomiTokenCookieName: 'custom_cookie_name',
    iabCookieName: 'custom_iab_cookie_name'
  }
};

Keep in mind that modifying the cookie name on a website that already had the Didomi SDK installed will recollect consent. We recommend using a short cookie name

To help reduce your cookies size, didomi_tokencan be replaced by a binary format token named didomi_dcs, learn more in this documentation.

There may be a case where some pages on your website(s) do not belong to the same legal entity, but you want to collect consent on different pages, for example, displaying multiple notices on the website, with different vendors configuration, and local regulations, and save them "locally" and not at the domain level.

If you would like to separate consent between different sub-domains or pages inside the domain you can use custom cookie names to store the user consent status in different cookies / storage items.

In this case, you must define a different name for both didomiTokenCookieName and iabCookieName by setting the didomiConfig.cookies property inside the given page as it is described in the previous sections and have the Web SDK loaded for this page.

Please have a look at the Didomi Sandbox for Collecting Consent on Different Pages to see how it works.

Storage sources for user information

By default, the Web SDK stores user information and choices in both cookies and local storage. You can configure where user information and choices should be stored and use only cookies or local storage if you want to.

Set cookies.storageSources.cookies to false to disable storing data in cookies. Similarly, set cookies.storageSources.localStorage to false to disable storing data in local storage.

For instance, to configure the Web SDK to use local storage only:

window.didomiConfig = {
  cookies: {
    storageSources: {
      cookies: false,
      localStorage: true
    }
  }
};

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