Customers who embed Calendly on their websites must either display Calendly's cookie banner or implement their own independent cookie consent mechanism for website visitors, and if the Calendly banner is hidden, Calendly continues to use cookies and the customer bears sole responsibility for ensuring visitor cookie rights are honored.
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This provision places sole cookie compliance responsibility on customers who embed Calendly when they choose to suppress the default Calendly cookie banner, and the agreement confirms that Calendly continues to set cookies regardless of banner visibility. Customers must assess whether their own cookie consent mechanisms satisfy applicable ePrivacy and data protection requirements for Calendly's cookies.
Under this clause, website operators who embed Calendly are required to either display Calendly's cookie banner or implement an independent mechanism allowing visitors to exercise legal rights regarding Calendly's cookies. The agreement states that Calendly continues to use cookies even when its banner is hidden, and sole compliance responsibility rests with the embedding customer.
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Compare across platforms →"When you use the Embedded Services on your website, Calendly collects certain information from your website visitors by use of cookies and similar technologies as described in Calendly's Privacy Notice. Your website visitors may have certain legal rights with respect to Calendly's cookies when you use the Embedded Services. When you use the Embedded Services on your website you shall comply with one of the following: You shall display Calendly's cookie banner when using the Embedded Services on your website to allow website visitors to exercise their legal rights with respect to Calendly cookies, or If you choose to hide Calendly's cookie banner (more information here), you acknowledge and agree that (a) Calendly still uses cookies when the Calendly cookie banner is hidden, and (b) you are solely responsible for providing a mechanism to your website visitors that allows them to exercise any legal rights they may have with respect to Calendly's cookies.Excerpt from Calendly's Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Cookie consent obligations for third-party cookies set via embedded services engage the ePrivacy Directive as implemented in EU member states, GDPR requirements for lawful processing through tracking technologies, and CCPA and CPRA …
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This provision places sole cookie compliance responsibility on customers who embed Calendly when they choose to suppress the default Calendly cookie banner, and the agreement confirms that Calendly continues to set cookies regardless of banner visibility. Customers must assess whether their own cookie consent mechanisms satisfy applicable ePrivacy and data protection requirements for Calendly's cookies.
Under this clause, website operators who embed Calendly are required to either display Calendly's cookie banner or implement an independent mechanism allowing visitors to exercise legal rights regarding Calendly's cookies. The agreement states that Calendly continues to use cookies even when its banner is hidden, and sole compliance responsibility rests with the embedding customer.
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