Cognito Forms
Advanced online form builder for structured data collection. Scripts embed customizable forms for registrations, payments, applications, and surveys. Sets cookies to support multi-page form state, payment session tracking, and submission data across visits.
Overview
Cognito Forms is an online form builder that enables organizations to create complex, multi-page forms for data collection, registrations, payments, and applications. When Cognito Forms' scripts appear on websites, they're embedding interactive forms that handle structured data collection — from simple contact forms to complex multi-step application processes with conditional logic, calculations, and payment processing.
The platform emphasizes advanced form capabilities (repeating sections, calculations, electronic signatures) that go beyond basic form builders.
What This Script Does
Cognito Forms' scripts embed advanced form functionality:
- Form rendering: Displays interactive forms with conditional logic, multi-page navigation, repeating sections, and calculated fields
- Data collection: Captures form submissions including text inputs, file uploads, signatures, and payment information
- Form state management: Sets cookies to maintain form progress across pages and sessions, allowing users to return to partially completed forms
- Payment processing: Integrates with payment processors for forms that collect payments (registration fees, order forms)
- Validation and calculation: Runs client-side form validation and field calculations in real-time
Consent & Compliance
- GDPR: Form submission data constitutes personal data. Cognito Forms acts as a data processor. The data collection is user-initiated — visitors voluntarily fill out forms.
- ePrivacy Directive: Form state cookies supporting multi-page forms are strictly necessary for the service the visitor is using.
Should You Block This Without Consent?
Cognito Forms' scripts serve a functional purpose that visitors actively engage with — filling out forms they chose to interact with. Form state cookies support the completion of requested forms. There's no marketing tracking or behavioral profiling.
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Is Cognito Forms GDPR compliant?
Cognito Forms typically loads functional trackers, which are not strictly necessary for your site to work. Under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, non-essential cookies and trackers must stay blocked until a visitor gives clear opt-in consent. So Cognito Forms can be fully GDPR compliant, but only if your site holds its scripts until consent is granted and lets visitors decline just as easily. Compliance depends on how your site loads Cognito Forms, not on Cognito Forms itself.
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