Set cookies using the Cookie Consent Manager app

Learn about the Cookies and how to set them up in your Bettermode community.

About the app

Cookie consent is the term for when users give their consent to letting a website activate its cookies and trackers that process personal data.

Types of cookies

  1. Essential website cookies (Mandatory): Cookies are strictly required to provide users with the services and features available in the community.

  2. Analytics and functional cookies (Optional): Cookies that collect information to gain insight into how the site is being used and how users navigate the community.

  3. Advertising and tracking cookies (Optional): Cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to the users and their interests.

How to enable the Cookie Consent Manager App

  1. Like any other app in your community, you need to first install the app: Learn how to install an app

    This app does not need additional settings. So you are all good.

Selecting cookies as a user:

When members visit the community for the first time, a Cookies Modal displays:

  • If users click on I'm fine with cookies, All cookies will be allowed automatically.

  • If users click on Manage Preferences, a new Modal will open which gives them the option to accept/reject Option Cookies:

  • Click Submit Preferences to apply options.

  • Click Required cookies only for the community to automatically disable optional cookies.

  • Users can also click on Required cookies only and the community will automatically disable optional cookies.

List of Cookies based on the category:

  1. Essential
    Name: '_bettermode_theme'
    Company: 'Bettermode'
    Domains: 'bettermode.com', '*.bettermode.com'

  2. Analytics and Functional:
    a) Name: '_bettermode_login',
    Company: 'Bettermode',
    Domains: 'bettermode.com', '*.bettermode.com'

    b) Name: '_bettermode_session',
    Company: 'Bettermode',
    Domains: 'bettermode.com', '*.bettermode.com'

    c) Name: '_login_id',
    Company: 'Google Inc.',
    Domains: 'bettermode.com', '*.bettermode.com'

  3. Advertising and Tracking:
    Depends on the apps installed by the community admins.

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