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Enabling the Basic Cookie consent banner on your Flipbook
Enabling the Basic Cookie consent banner on your Flipbook

Manage cookie consent in your Flipbook with our Basic Cookie banner.

Updated over a month ago

Nearly every website today allows you to manage and give consent to cookies that collect and use your browsing data.

Based on the initiatives from the EU to uniformly regulate data collection, in the form of the GDPR and ePrivacy Regulation, iPaper offers a way to transfer the choice of cookies to your visitors.

🔰 This article assumes you understand the basics of cookies, their purpose, and whether your Flipbook needs a cookie policy banner. If you're unsure, check out our explanatory article below:

📖 This guide explains:

Which Consent Management option is right for your Flipbook?

iPaper supports three different consent management options, which can be applied to any Flipbook, or folder:

  • None: We do not handle consent and do not present any form of Consent Management banner.

  • Integration: No cookie banner is presented by iPaper, and you will have to integrate your existing consent management platform with iPaper. We assume only “strictly necessary” consent by default.

  • Basic Banner: iPaper presents a basic cookie consent banner that allows the user to manage consent.

💡 If you'd prefer to integrate your existing, third-party consent management platform into your Flipbooks, see our guide on this, below:

How to enable the Basic Cookie consent banner on your Flipbook

  1. Select your Flipbook.

  2. Click on the General tab.

  3. From the vertical menu on the left, select Consent management.

  4. Select Basic banner from the available consent management options.

  5. Remember to Save changes using the button at the bottom of the window.

How to enable the Basic Cookie consent banner across folders using Inherited settings

It is rare you need this only for a single Flipbook, so consider using it on Folder- or Account level to make use of Inherited Settings.

Enabled at the account level, and it will be applied across your iPaper account. Doing so at the folder level will enable it on all Flipbooks and subfolders within the folder. For individual Flipbooks, enable it directly at the Flipbook level.

How to implement the Basic Cookie consent banner with Inherited settings (click to expand)

  1. Right-click on the folder for which you want to apply a Cookie consent management banner.

  2. Click on Edit settings from the drop-down menu.

  3. Select the General tab.

  4. From the vertical menu on the left, select Consent management.

  5. Select Basic banner from the available consent management options.

  6. Remember to Save changes using the button at the bottom of the window.

💡 To learn more about how Inherited Settings work in iPaper, see our guide:

How to customize your Basic Cookie consent banner

The Basic Cookie consent banner, is customizable to match your business and your brand. The following customization options are available to you with the Basic Cookie consent banner:

Banner behavior

The banner behavior dictates the default settings that are presented to the visitor in the banner:

  1. Default decline, or settings: Makes the primary choice Decline all, and presents a secondary option enabling the user to optionally accept certain cookies under Settings.

  2. Default accept, or settings: Makes the primary choice Accept all, and presents a secondary option enabling the user to optionally accept certain cookies under Settings.

  3. Default accept or decline: Makes it easy to either Accept all or Decline all cookies, without the option to specify specific cookie category consent.

External cookie policy

Present your visitors with a link to an external cookie policy (like our own, for example), by including the link to your external policy page in this field.

If you provide a link, this will be visible as a Cookie policy link in the preview window:

Color scheme

You can customize the appearance of your Basic Cookie consent banner by selecting the color for various elements within it. You can modify the following:

  • Cookie icon color

  • Link color

  • Background color

  • Accept/decline button background color

  • Accept/decline button text color

  • Settings background color

  • Settings button text color

If you want to match an existing color scheme, such as, for example, your brand, you can apply specific colors using Hex codes, or simply use the palette color picker.

💡 Any color changes you make to the Basic Cookie consent banner are instantly reflected in the preview pane, allowing you to see how the colors you've selected impact your banner.

How to define the Cookie consent banner language

The language on the Cookie banner is dictated by the flipbooks Region settings. You can edit these this way:

  1. Select the Settings pane for your Flipbook or folder

  2. Select the General tab.

  3. From the vertical menu on the left, select Region.

  4. Select your language from the drop-down menu of supported languages in the Language field.

How does it affect other cookies (Integrations)?

The new cookie policy banner classifies all tracking integrations as advertising cookies. These cookies won’t load in your Flipbook until the visitor consents to advertising cookies.

See the full list of current Flipbook advertising integrations (click to expand)

  • AdForm

  • Adobe Analytics

  • Facebook

  • Google Ads

  • Google Analytics

  • Google Tag Manager

  • HubSpot

  • Sleeknote

  • Tracking pixels

What if a visitor wants to change their consent?

Consent can be changed at any time from the Flipbook top bar menu:

  1. Select the three-line burger menu icon.

  2. Select Cookie policy

This will bring up the Basic Cookie consent banner anew, from which your visitor can select their consent options.

Cookie consent best practices

iPaper cannot provide specific best practice settings, as these depend on the legal requirements in your region and your desired compliance level. If you're unsure, this resource can help you get started.


If you've still got questions about Cookie policy, our Customer Care team is happy to help! Just reach out to us using the messenger!

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