What is IAB TCF?
The IAB Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) is a technical standard for the digital advertising industry. It is designed to help all parties in the digital advertising chain ensure that they comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive when processing personal data or accessing and/or storing information on a user's device, such as cookies, advertising identifiers, device identifiers, and other tracking technologies.
Activate IAB TCF
In Borlabs Cookie, click on Consent Management » IAB TCF » Settings and activate IAB TCF status.
You can also activate the Compact Layout (BETA) option, as it is more user-friendly, especially on smaller screens.
Make sure that under Global Vendor List (GVL) Status you see the message Global Vendor List is downloaded after you have saved.
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Configure vendors
Click on Consent Management » IAB TCF » Manage vendors and then on the Configure vendors button.
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No advertising via Google AdSense
If you are not using Google AdSense, you should contact your service provider, who is responsible for marketing the advertising space on your website. Ask them about the purposes, features, special features, and special purposes that you should activate or vendor IDs that you should store.
Advertising via Google AdSense
If you use Google AdSense, activate purposes 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, and 10 under Purposes, as described in the Google documentation https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9461778?hl=en.
For Features, activate 1, 2 and 3.
Under Special features, activate 1 and 2.
And finally, under Special purposes, activate 1 and 2.
Then click on Save all settings.
Google will automatically recognize the use of the TCF after a short time.
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All vendors who have specified the selected purposes, features, special features, and special purposes are now activated.
Important note
When using the IAB TCF, Borlabs Cookie includes the file borlabs-cookie-tcf-stub.min.js in the <head> of the WordPress website.
It is extremely important to ensure that this file is not modified in any way by caching or JavaScript optimization plugins.
The file must be placed in the <head> of the website and must not be loaded with a delay or modified in any other way.
The <script> tag of our file must not be adapted or modified in any way.
Any deviation from these requirements may result in the advert not being displayed correctly in the end.