Cookie Banner Legal Shield: Protect your business
Game changer for cookie banners: consentmanager is the first compliance solution to take responsibility for legal warnings against its customers’ cookie banners. Not sure if your cookie banner is GDPR compliant? With consentmanager’s new Cookie Banner Legal Shield, your business is protected from costly legal disputes for non-compliance with the GDPR. We assume the cost risk for justified warnings and offer fast legal support. We will thoroughly investigate your case, provide comprehensive advice and recommend specific countermeasures in the event of a warning. You can also use our dashboard to continuously monitor the compliance of your cookie banners. This allows you to focus on your core business while we take care of your legal protection. The Legal Shield is included in all new paid plans – existing customers can choose to upgrade.
Find out more here: https://www.consentmanager.net/legal-shield
Introducing our brand new Partner Portal
We are excited to announce one of our most exciting new features: our new Partner Portal! It is now available to our partners, resellers and agency clients. This central dashboard gives you a clear overview of your customers and the features they are using, such as crawler notifications, incoming whistleblowing reports and privacy requests.
Our Partner Portal is equipped with what we call our smart management features. These include the ability to set up designs for multiple accounts, advanced white label options and flexibility with more customer management rights. A particular highlight for your business development is our integrated lead generator. Partners can automatically access the new portal using their usual login.
EU court imposes fine over Facebook link
In the first ruling of its kind, the European Court of Justice has ordered the European Commission to pay compensation for damage caused by the transfer of a German citizen’s personal data. The ruling was based on the fact that the Commission transferred personal data, including the IP address, to Meta Platforms, Inc. via the ‘Login with Facebook’ hyperlink on the website of the Conference on the Future of Europe without sufficient authorisation.
The Commission failed to provide adequate safeguards for the transfer of data to the United States. As a result, the Court ordered the Commission to pay the data subject €400. Under GDPR, the transfer of data to an organisation outside the EU still requires the explicit consent of the end user. Although registration options through popular tools such as Facebook are widely used, websites still need to ensure they are collecting consent correctly, for example through a cookie banner.
The press release can be found at:
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2025-01/cp250001en.pdf
Privacy-friendly tools for your website in 2025
The use of numerous plugins significantly increases the complexity of GDPR compliance, especially as fines in the EU have risen sharply since the introduction of GDPR. In our latest article, we present privacy-friendly tools for 2025. We discuss the measures that have been taken, and which articles of the GDPR need to be considered. Read more here: https://www.consentmanager.net/blog/2025/01/17/privacy-friendly-tools-websites-2025/
Further optimisations and adjustments in January
Further new features and optimisations can be found in the complete release log:
Release Log
- New feature “Legal Shield” (“Abmahnschutz”)
- New Interface for partners, agencies, reseller, DPOs
- New SDK for appleTV, Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo and CTV
- Add PDF export option to monitor results
- Add assigning vendors/cookes/domains in monitor
- Fix issue with login sharing
- Fix issue with CSP settings
- Fix issue with logout
- Fix issue with password link
- Improve CMP Modal design
- Fix position of layer in centered mode
