Cookies are small pieces of data which are stored on the computers or mobile devices of site visitors. They are used to gather information about the site visitor. Also it tells the computer if the user already visited a specific site once before so he e.g. has not to sign up every time he visits the site again.
The EU Cookie law states that site owners have to inform visitors about their usage of cookies. It was created to save and protect the privacy of site visitors.
There are myriad of jQuery cookie plugins out there by which you can setup cookies for your websites and applications. Below you will find some of the best jQuery Cookie Plugins for handling cookies for your websites. Let us know If you are aware of any other cookie plugin by posting a comment below.
1. GDPR Cookie Law
GDPR Cookie Law is a lightweight responsive jQuery plugin that allows you to create simple cookie notification in modern, flat style with several options. It has some useful features like custom hyperlinks, easy integration, clean code, animation types, different positions, cross browser updates, and much more.
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2. Cookies Notifications
This jQuery plugin displays the notification about the Cookies used on your site. Most websites use cookies to provide the better experience for their visitors, so it is advised to notify them about it. This is especially important due to European Union’ General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) policy.
This plugin has two cookie notification styles with various positions. You can either use full browser width notification or animated notification in the corner of your site.
You can set cookies expiration date. The notification will not be displayed to the same visitor for as long as you wish, after he accepts your cookie policy.
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3. Smart Cookie
Smart Cookie is GDPR responsive cookie law notification jQuery plugin, which helps you to inform your visitors about the cookie use on your website. This helps you comply with the EU cookie law requirements.
The jQuery plugin is very flexible you can choose from four positions to place the notification message: top, bottom, bottom left, bottom right. If you choose top or bottom position it will be displayed as bar, otherwise it will be displayed as a box in the bottom left or bottom right corner. You can also customize the texts and colors to fit your design.
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4. Cookiefy
jQuery Cookiefy is a lightweight jQuery plugin to the EU Cookie laws.
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5. Ultimate GDPR Compliance jQuery Toolkit
It is all in one solution for your website, it can be easily integrated with any website. It comes with several good features such as data access, cookie consents, 14 language versions, check what cookies are used on your website, right to be forgotten and much more.
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6. adPopup Pro
adPopup Pro is a jQuery plugin to show ads (or information) in popups to your visitors. The plugin has browser detection, OS detection, screen size detection, tablet detection, mobile detection and more built-in to show the popup only to the visitors you want to. To avoid that the user sees the popup over and over again, you get the ability to set the show_type to always, session, day, month, year, chance and more!
You can also customize the look of the popup to match your site’s styling. For example, you can set the color scheme of the close button, overlay and popup background, and choose to hide the close button or overlay.
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7. jQuery CookieBar
A simple, lightweight jQuery plugin for creating a notification bar that is dismissable and dismiss is saved by cookie. Perfect for implementing the new eu cookielaw.
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8. Macaroon
A jQuery plugin for simple access to browser cookies. Working with cookie strings are messy, especially in JavaScript. Macaroon is a dead simple way to create, update, read and erase pesky browser cookies, so you can get back to more important code.
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9. CookieCuttr
CookieCuttr is a tailorable jQuery plugin to deal with the EU Cookie Law.
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10. jCookies
jCookies, a jQuery plugin, makes getting and settings HTTP Cookies a breeze. jCookies allows the storage of any type of data: strings, arrays, objects, etc.
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11. Divas Cookies
Divas Cookies is EU Cookie Policy Banner generator as a jQuery plugin. The quickest and most elegant solution to be compliant with EU Cookie Policy. This plugin is easy to use and comes with myriad of features to for customization.
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12. Cookies
Cookies.js is a small client-side javascript library that makes managing cookies easy. This plugin is cross browser compatible, lightweight, no dependencies, public domain, RFC6265 compliant, and supports AMD/ CommonJS loaders.
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13. herbyCookie
herbyCookie is an easy jQuery plugin asking at user for cookie allowing a website to comply with the EU cookie law.
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14. Cookies.js
cookies.js is a super simple cookie manipulation on the front-end using JavaScript.
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15. JavaScript Cookie
JavaScript Cookie is a simple, lightweight JavaScript API for handling cookies. This plugin works in all browser, accepts any character, no dependency RFC 6265 compliant, useful wiki and lightweight.
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16. iCookie
iCookie is a jQuery plugin, easy to integrate only 2 minutes.This item includes 10 pre-defined themes. You can change everything (color, text, border etc.)
It generates a GDPR compliant cookie policy for your website Add fast and responsive cookie policy to website in 2 minutes.
17. CookieInfo.js
This jQuery cookie plugin is responsive works well on smaller screen, easy to customize, lightweight and easy to install.
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18. CookieGuard
Cookie Guard lets you list all the known cookies used on your site and offers site visitors the opportunity to block or allow non-essential and unknown cookies.
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19. StoCookie
StoCookie is a simple and lightweight plugin to quickly create custom notification messages. It comes with some smart options to best suit your website. simply include the JavaScript, the CSS and activate the plugin. Possibility to call a different custom notification in every page.
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20. Fortune Cookie Consent Policy Script
Fortune Cookie Consent Policy Script is a tool to notify visitors that your website uses cookies, in a very pleasant and not disturbing way. You can choose to transmit this message to your visitors with care not to annoy, lock out or erroneously notify visitors, or contrary, to disable some features of your website, until they do not accept cookies!
All you have to do is to configure the script as you like, and the warning message is created and ready to be added to your web site. In fact, for most people, the configuration phase takes less than 5 minutes.
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