Privacy question

  • Resolved Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)


    7 years, 4 months ago

    A couple of important privacy questions:

    Does the accessibility helper toolbar place cookies on visitors’ devices when they use the toolbar’s controls? If so, what are those cookies called and what are their durations?

    Does the WAH Dom Scanner call an external server to inspect the website? If so, what is that server and does it have a privacy policy?

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  • Plugin Author Alex Volkov

    (@vol4ikman)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,
    Cookies – to save plugin settings (user choices).
    Dom scanner – is not use any external server or service, it runs on your webserver only, and we are not save any user or server data.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    What are the names of the cookies used? How long do they last?

    (For some reason, I’m not seeing them in Page Info in Firefox, but if the plugin is placing cookies, that needs to be disclosed in a website’s cookie policy.)

    Plugin Author Alex Volkov

    (@vol4ikman)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    I am sorry, it was my fault.

    WAH does not save any cookies in the free version.

    WAH PRO saves cookies.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Alex Volkov.
    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    Okay, that is good to know. Thanks!

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    I tested again, and the plugin IS placing cookies when the user changes the color scheme. I’m seeing wahFontColor and wahBgColor.

    Can you please provide a full list of the cookies the WAH free version sidebar may place for each option, the exact name of each cookie, and how long those cookies last? This is extremely important because it is a legal issue for site owners.

    Plugin Author Alex Volkov

    (@vol4ikman)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    2019-02-04_0615

    As you can see, WAH free saves only contrast settings

    – wahBgColor: background color
    – wahFontColor: font color

    All cookies are expires after 1 month

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter Ate Up With Motor

    (@ate-up-with-motor)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    Okay, but isn’t that 14 days, not one month?

    Are those the only cookies the free version uses?

    (I see that restoring the defaults removes those cookies, which is great — I’m very pleased you set it up that way.)

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