Do I need a cookie notice?

[officear]

My site runs with plain Laytheme and it’s own plugins.
No extras, no third party content, no woocommerce, nothing embedded. (+ disabled the potential Youtube-cookies in the Carousel Addon settings.)

As I read in several forum postings Laytheme itself doesn’t use any cookies,... which is really great btw <3

When I check the storage information with the inspector, I still get a list of 6 cookies from Wordpress:

Do I have to notify the users about these cookies? Probably yes, right? :)

It’s my first site ever, so I want to be sure what I'm doing and we all know how visually unpleasant cookie banners might be hahaha
(The site is for a small company within the EU, if that matters.)

I know you can’t give me officially legal advice here, but what is your experience with this topic?

Thanks for your help <333

(Sorry no link, because I work local :) )

[felix_rabe]

I would say you don't need a notice for cookies that are necessary to technically run the site. I would say that is the case here.

Apart from that you need a Privacy Statement where you say that these cookies are set.

That would be my approach, but without legal liability.

Felix

[arminunruh]

hey i think wordpress only sets cookies when you have previously logged in as an admin in /wp-admin/

i might be wrong about this, but look at this:

i visited a lay theme website in google chrome "incognito mode" and no cookies are created!

here is more info:
https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/cookies/

so the cookies are about users (thats when u are logged in, thats the only case i think) and comments. but we dont use comments

[arminunruh]

so i did this cookie scan test on www.cookiebot.com and it sent me back this result. it says "0 cookies"

so i guess the assumptions of my previous post are correct

[officear]

@felix_rabe
thank you for answering me :)

@arminunruh
you are right, I tried now without being logged in as admin, and no cookies are visible anymore :)

so thanks a lot for your detailed answer and the additional cookie test <3