The ultimate consent dialog checklist

Consent banners or consent dialogs are integrated on almost all websites. However, only very few of them meet all the criteria of the supervisory authorities. The following applies: if even one criterion is not met, all consents obtained are invalid and the use of the corresponding services requiring consent is therefore unlawful.

Fortunately, all of the requirements can be found in a single document from the supervisory authorities, the Guidance of the Supervisory Authorities for Providers of Digital Services – OH Digital Services for short – version 1.2. The disadvantage: The requirements for consent dialogs are spread over more than 30 pages. We have therefore taken the trouble to create a compact checklist with 14 points. Each point can be easily verified by specifying the corresponding margin numbers from the orientation guide.

Here you can see the dialog generated with the JustRelate etracker with regard to the requirements of the supervisory authorities.