Cookie consent for embedded flipbooks

If you embed flipbooks into your website, unfortunately, they don't magically start listening to the preferences your visitor selected in your cookie banner! You have to do a bit of work. There are two ways of making sure you don't use cookies on your site without consent. 

1. Make the embedded flipbook respect your cookie settings
2. Embed the flipbook so that only necessary cookies are used

The first solution is slightly more technical but guarantees compliance and allows you to keep gathering statistics for people who accept statistical cookies. The second solution is simpler but does not gather any statistics, and you still have to be aware of some external content you embed into your flipbook. 

Make the embedded flipbook respect your cookie settings

Many cookie banners allow you to ‘wrap’ code (including our embed code) so that the code is only performed if the visitor consented to some/all cookie categories. If the visitor does not accept cookies, you can either display a placeholder indicating that the content can't be shown or show the flipbook version with only the necessary cookies, as described below.
This typically requires just a few lines of code, but to determine the exact code, you may need some help from your webmaster and instructions on how to achieve this with your cookie banner specifically. Below, we provide links to some common systems. 

• Onetrust  
• CookieYes  
• WordPress (using the GDPR Cookie Consent Plugin)
• Klaro   

Embed the flipbook so that only necessary cookies are used.

You can embed flipbooks in a way that only essential/necessary cookies are used. To do so, take our standard embed code and modify it by adding ?noview=true after the initial link in the code and data-fbo-nocookie anywhere in the parameters :

<a href="https://online.flippingbook.com/view/501847791/?noview=true" class="fbo-embed" data-fbo-id="4e45c58ddf" data-fbo-ratio="3:2" data-fbo-lightbox="yes" data-fbo-width="100%" data-fbo-height="auto" data-fbo-version="1" data-fbo-nocookie style="max-width: 100%">FlippingBook in a nutshell</a><script async defer src="https://online.flippingbook.com/EmbedScriptUrl.aspx?m=redir&hid=501847791"></script>

Note that this has the following effects:

1. It will stop gathering statistics both in Google Analytics and FlippingBook Online.
2. It will remove all cookies except for necessary cookies that FlippingBook sets itself. 
3. It will affect third-party cookies that may be added to your flipbook as a result of using the Editor as described follows:
   • YouTube: Embedded videos are switched to Privacy Enhanced Mode, using the youtube-nocookie.com domain. This significantly reduces YouTube cookie usage; however, some cookies may still present, mainly used to store user settings and other non-tracking data. Read more about YouTube's Privacy Enhanced Mode.
   • Vimeo: Vimeo collects its own analytics by default. We add a Do Not Track parameter to all Vimeo embeds, which will block the player from tracking session data and analytics. Some essential cookies may still remain. Read more about Vimeo's Do Not Track parameter.
   • Wistia: Wistia embeds are switched to Privacy Mode, which tells Wistia to only collect anonymized data, without using cookies. This mode can also be enabled account-wide in Wistia account settings. More information about Wistia Player Privacy Mode.
   • Typeform: Typeforms embedded into the flipbook are not affected in any way. Typeform offers account-wide privacy settings. You should enable and configure them in your Typeform account. Learn more about managing Typeform Cookie Consent settings.
   • Google Forms: Google Forms has no designated way to manage cookie usage, so instead of opening the form, we briefly show a message to ‘Enable cookies to view all content on the page’.
   • Microsoft Forms:  Microsoft Forms also has no designated way to manage cookie usage, so instead of opening the form, the ‘Enable cookies to view all content on the page’ message will be briefly displayed.