Getting Started

Setup and enable the plugin

Before you activate the plugin, check the options of the component. Here your can manage the behavior and styling of the extension.
To access the configuration pages, go to Joomla Global Config -> Logical Arts Privacy.
Here, you have to enter your cookie policy text at the Cookie Policy tap page.

To enable the plugin, either go to System -> Plugin -> System - Logical-Arts Privacy
or select About from the Logical-Arts Privacy menu and click the plugin at the right.
At the plugin configuration page select "Enabled" and save.

Setup of the cookies used

After that, go to the component and setup the providers an their cookies.
The component of the Logical-Arts Privacy extension is used to define the cookies of the differrent providers from your site. E.g. the Google analytics provider will use the cookies "_ga_" with a unique id to track the visitor.

If entered manually, a provider must be defined first. Then you can create the cookies used by this provider in the cookie list. In addition to the provider, the category is also defined for each cookie. this later determines which cookies are allowed or suppressed by the user's consent.

First of all, the cookies of this extension should be added.
Goto the components providers table and select Import . Select the "lartsprivacy.json" file.
After a successful import, a provider "Logical-Arts Privacy" should be in the list. Additionally the two cookies "lartsprivacy" and "lartsprivacy_uid" will be defined.

Edit Providers

• Select Providers from the Logical-Arts components menu.
• Click New or select an entry and click Edit
• Enter the required data and save

Edit Cookies

• Select Cookies from the Logical-Arts components menu.
• Click New or select an entry and click Edit
• Enter the required data and save

The most important settings have now been made. The behavior and styling can be set more precisely in further steps.