HOW TO: Customize Your Privacy Policy Banner

@cbarley just tried the new feature and it messes up the banner design completely.

Ours now work fine, other than in IE (and yes, some of our customers still use IE).

The tool for this cookie notification has been updated and now requires the use of TWO buttons. Will this code shown above still work?

Also, Hubspot, can’t you please add in some functions to allow the tool to style the font and background colors of the notification?

Hello, I’d like to customise the font size on the data privacy & consent messages that HubSpot allows users to enabled on forms. Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Hey @cbarley !
I am a new UK Partner, digging deep into GDPR, and came across this post. Thank you.

I have a few questions if you have time…

1. Do you have any examples of the code you’ve shown being used as a ‘pop up’ or overlay on any sites? (And, is this possible to do?)
2. Do you have any examples where there is a more granular approach to acceptance e.g. a series of tick boxes for the various cookies?

Taking the example of a Wordpress site…

3. Even if the Hubspot code is implemented site wide, as I understand it, the custom code would need to be installed via Wordpress itself - if this is the case, would a person’s contact record in Hubspot still reflect the state of their cookie preferences? (which is a great feature)

Many thanks, Martin

Hi @MartinSherv1 , welcome!

1. I don’t have any examples, but you could certainly use some CSS to position it in the middle of the screen when visitors come to your site.

- Something like this should position it in the middle of the screen:

body div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation {
 max-width: 500px;
 top: 50%;
 left: 50%;
 transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
 -webkit-transform: translate(-50%, -50%); 
 -ms-transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
 -moz-transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
 box-shadow: 4px 4px 15px black;
}

2. No examples here. The only fields that exist are the ones built into your Tracking Code Settings where you edit the copy and options for your privacy policy banner. We don’t give flexible customization on this front.

3. Yes. If you implement the tracking code into your own website via these instructions, contacts that opt to be tracked or not tracked based on what they click. There isn’t a contact property that holds this information, but you’ll see page views on that contact if they did opt in. Here are more in depth instructions: https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/reports/customize-your-cookie-tracking-settings-and-privacy-policy-alert

Fantastic. Thank you again Connor

Hello cbarley,

thank you for the pop-up solution you gave in your first point. We’d appreciate it if this would be an option in the drop down menu of the notification type in the settings of the cookie notification style. A few of our customers wish to test this option but at the moment we have to involve a coder to get this done so it’s very time-consuming and inconvenient for us. It would be great if we could do it ourselves by a few clicks.

Also, we urgently need flexible customization in the cookie policy settings which you talked about in your second point. According to https://datenschutz-generator.de/ we have to list all the cookies we use in detail and it must be possible to accept or disable every single one of them. We and our customers put emphasis on this and would resent to fall back on a 3rd party solution.

Best regards

Adriane

This is great info, thanks. I’m still having problems though shifting the accept button in the center of the div due to the ‘text-align: right !important’ on div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation-inner div#hs-en-cookie-confirmation-buttons-area. This keeps overriding any further customisation (ie text align: center;) I try to do, even when I put it in the footer. Any advice would be much appreciated!

Hi @tommitchell , try and make the selector more specific by adding body before it like so:

body div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation-inner div#hs-en-cookie-confirmation-buttons-area {
 text-align: center!important;
}

If that does not work, can you please link an example page where you’re running into the problem?

Ah that has worked! Brilliant, thanks so much for your help!

Sorry @cbarley I have one more question - is it possible to change the layout of the cookie notice? ie move the confirm button to be in line with the text rather than beneath it? Thanks in advance!!

Sure @tommitchell , pretty much any layout you might want is possible with CSS. Making the container that holds the buttons to be displayed as inline-block rather than block should help:

div#hs-en-cookie-confirmation-buttons-area {
     display: inline-block;
}

I can’t be sure if that’s going to fix your particular issue, but the general idea is there. Would you mind creating a new post for any other questions you have please? I want to make this thread as relevant to the article as possible.

I have a question about this - not a visual change, but I want to have the banner with the HS cookie collection message that pops up on top of website when first enterting it - can it be uploaded with a 5 min delat? Is there a way to configure this?

Thanks!

Hi, @Exp.

I wouldn’t recommend doing that, but one way you could approach this by hiding the cookie banner by default with CSS:

#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation {
 display: none;
}

and then using JavaScript to reveal it with the setTimeout() method:

setTimeout(function(){
 document.getElementById("hs-eu-cookie-confirmation").style.display = "block";
}, 300000);

I want the background to be black.

What did i do wrong?

<style>
/* Edit this section to change the main container of the banner */
div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation.can-use-gradients {
background: #050505;
border-bottom: none;
box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px black;
border-radius: 5px; }

/* Edit this section to change the style of the text */
div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation-inner p {
font-family: sans-serif!important; }

/* Edit this section to change the style of the CONFIRM button */
div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation-inner a#hs-eu-confirmation-button {
background: #cccccc!important;
border: none!important;
box-shadow: 2px 2px 1px black;
font-family: sans-serif!important;
transition: 0.2s ease;
-webkit-transition: 0.2s ease;
-moz-transition: 0.2s ease;
-o-transition: 0.2s ease;
-ms-transition: 0.2s ease; }

/* Edit this section to change the style of the CONFIRM button when hovering */
div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation-inner a#hs-eu-confirmation-button:hover {box-shadow: 3px 3px 1px black;
transition: 0.2s ease;
-webkit-transition: 0.2s ease;
-moz-transition: 0.2s ease;
-o-transition: 0.2s ease;
-ms-transition: 0.2s ease; }

</style>

Hey, @Cory.

Would something like:

div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation.hs-cookie-notification-position-bottom {
 background: #050505;
}

work?

Isaac,

That worked perfectly!

Thank you.

One last thing.

How do i change the policy text color to white?

Isaac,

Is this correct?

/* Edit this section to change the style of the text */
div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation div#hs-eu-cookie-confirmation-inner p {
font-family: sans-serif!important;
color: #ffffff;
}

Hey, @Cory.

Apologies for the delayed response.

I just took a look at the site and it seems like the white text is in place. Are you good to go here?

Yes sir I am.

Thank you for your help!

I appreicate it.

Have a great week.