Does Judge.me require visitor consent?

No, for standard deployments. Judge.me's cookies are first-party and serve the review experience — session state for the review form and pre-filling reviewer details on return visits. No cross-site tracking or advertising profiling is performed.

What cookies does Judge.me set?

Judge.me sets _judgeme_session (first-party session cookie for review form state) and judgeme_reviewer_[shop_id] (365-day first-party cookie storing reviewer name and email to pre-fill the form on return visits). Neither facilitates ad tracking.

How does ConsentStack treat Judge.me?

ConsentStack loads Judge.me under functional consent, recognizing its role as core ecommerce infrastructure for Shopify stores. Because Judge.me uses only first-party cookies for review functionality and performs no behavioral profiling, ConsentStack does not require marketing or analytics consent before enabling it.

What tracker domains does Judge.me use?

ConsentStack has catalogued tracker domains for Judge.me including judge.me and cdn.judge.me. These are the network destinations Judge.me's scripts contact, which a consent platform blocks until a visitor agrees.

Judge.me (cdn.judge.me) - Shopify Review Widget Consent & Privacy Info

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Overview

Judge.me is a product reviews app for Shopify stores that provides verified purchase reviews, photo and video uploads, star rating widgets, review carousels, and review syndication to Google Shopping, Facebook, and Instagram. It competes with Yotpo and Stamped.io as a cost-effective reviews solution for Shopify merchants, offering a generous free tier. Judge.me integrates natively with Shopify's checkout flow to trigger post-purchase review invitation emails automatically.

What This Script Does

Judge.me loads its widget script (cdn.judge.me/widget/v1/judgeme.js) on Shopify storefront pages where review display or collection is configured. The script is initialized with the shop's API key as a parameter.

Widget functionality:

Product review carousels: Renders star ratings and review text on product detail pages (PDPs), pulling review content from Judge.me's CDN. Shows reviewer name, verified purchase badge, review date, star rating, and optional photo/video attachments.
Aggregate rating badges: Displays overall star rating (e.g., 4.8/5 from 312 reviews) on collection pages, category pages, or homepages via a lightweight badge widget.
Review request pop-ups: On stores using Judge.me's on-site review collection widget, a pop-up or embedded form appears asking customers to leave a review, typically triggered from a post-purchase email link containing a review token.
Google Shopping syndication: Injects application/ld+json structured data (Product + AggregateRating schema) into the page DOM for Google's rich snippet crawlers. No Google pixel fires — this is markup-based.

Cookies set:

_judgeme_session (first-party, session cookie) — maintains state for review form interactions and pop-up display
judgeme_reviewer_[shop_id] (first-party, 365-day expiry) — stores reviewer name and email to pre-fill the review form on return visits, reducing friction for repeat reviewers

Network requests:

Widget content fetched from cdn.judge.me
Review submissions POST to judge.me/api/reviews
Review invitation links resolve through judge.me/r/[token] to authenticate the reviewer

Consent & Compliance

Category: Functional
GDPR: Review display is functional ecommerce content. The _judgeme_session cookie is necessary for the review widget to function. The judgeme_reviewer_[shop_id] cookie stores voluntarily provided personal data (name, email) for the reviewer's own convenience — this is functional rather than tracking in nature. Review submission data (name, email, review text, photos) is personal data — the merchant's privacy policy should disclose this processing. Judge.me acts as a data processor for review content.
CCPA: Reviewer names and email addresses are personal information but are voluntarily submitted. Cookie-based data does not involve third-party sale or sharing for advertising.
ePrivacy: Both cookies set by Judge.me are first-party and serve the functional review experience. They do not facilitate cross-site tracking or advertising profiling.

Should You Block This Without Consent?

No. Judge.me provides core ecommerce functionality — verified review display and collection — that is directly connected to the shopping experience. It does not perform advertising, retargeting, or cross-site behavioral tracking. The cookies set are first-party and functional. Review widgets can operate under a functional or legitimate interest basis without requiring prior visitor consent.

Is Judge.me GDPR compliant?

Judge.me typically loads marketing and 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 Judge.me 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 Judge.me, not on Judge.me itself.

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