Cookies

All GDS services are required to tell users about the cookies they are setting on the user’s device and let them accept or reject different types of non-essential cookies.

Fast-gov-uk uses session cookies to track user’s journey through question pages (or wizards).

In view of the above, fast-gov-uk comes out of the box with 2 cookie features -

Cookie Banner

A GDS-style cookie banner to tell users that we are using essential cookies -

The default cookie banner is served on the URL - /cookie-banner. If you want to override the default cookie banner, you can define your banner in app.py and wire it up to the same URL.

Cookie page

A GDS-style cookies page to tell users details about the cookies being set on their devices including name and purpose of each cookie used by the service -

If you would like to modify the default cookies page, you can do that easily like so -

# add this to your app.py
@fast.page
def cookies():
    return ds.Cookies(
        ds.P("Extra content that I would like to add to the cookies page.")
    )