Do my presentations need a cookie banner?

Usually not. Cookie consent banners exist for advertising and cross-site tracking cookies, and your presentations don't set any. What a presentation does do is record views, so you can tell your audience that with a short notice if you'd like to.

This article lists exactly what is recorded and stored, so you or your legal team can decide.

What does a presentation record?

Each time someone opens a presentation, Bridger records a view so you can see it in Insights:

• Where it was opened from: country, region and city, worked out from the connection. The address itself is not kept.
• The browser and device type, from the information every browser sends with a page request.
• What they looked at: which screens they opened, how long they actively spent on each, and the buttons they tapped.
• Who they are, on a named link only. A link you send to a named recipient records views against that person. A public link records views without a name.

None of this is shared with advertisers, and none of it follows the viewer to other websites.

Which cookies does a presentation set?

None for analytics. A presentation sets a cookie only when it needs one to work:

• Password unlock. After a viewer types the correct password, a cookie lets them back in for 24 hours without typing it again.
• Email verification. On a private link, a cookie remembers that the viewer confirmed their address with a code.
• Your own team. When someone signed in to your workspace opens a presentation, a cookie marks that browser as your team's, so their views aren't counted as audience views.

These are strictly necessary cookies: each one exists to do something the viewer asked for. Nothing is stored in the viewer's browser for tracking.

What is the privacy notice?

It's an optional line of small text in a bottom corner of every presentation in your workspace. By default it says your company measures views of the presentation, and links to your privacy policy. You can change the wording. There's nothing to accept or close, and taps pass through it to the presentation. On a phone it appears at the top instead and fades away after a few seconds, so it stays clear of the presentation's navigation.

When a presentation asks for a password or an email code first, the same line also appears on that screen.

It's off unless you turn it on. Most workspaces leave it off. Turn it on if your company's policy is to tell people when views are measured.

How do I turn it on?

You need to be a workspace owner.

1. Go to Settings, then Connectors.
2. Under Privacy notice on presentations, enter the link to your privacy policy. It must start with https://.
3. To use your own words, type them in Notice wording. Keep it to one line, up to 200 characters. Leave it blank to use the default sentence. The Privacy policy link is always added after your wording.
4. Select Save, then turn on the switch.

The preview under the fields shows exactly what viewers will see.

The notice appears on every presentation in your workspace straight away, including links you've already sent. Turn the switch off and it disappears just as quickly. Your Bridger team can also turn it on for you.