Lithium
Lithium, now Khoros, is a social commerce and community discussion platform. Scripts embed community discussion boards, ratings and reviews widgets, and social Q&A tools on brand and support sites, enabling customer interactions and collecting engagement data for community management.
Overview
Lithium (now Khoros) is a social commerce and community platform. Its scripts embed community discussion boards, ratings and reviews widgets, and social Q&A tools on brand and support websites.
What This Script Does
Lithium scripts load community components into designated areas of a web page. These components include discussion forums, question-and-answer panels, and review widgets. The scripts handle user authentication for community participation, render threaded discussions, and manage content moderation state. Session cookies are set to maintain login state within the community widget. Requests are made to Lithium/Khoros-hosted API endpoints to fetch and post community content.
Consent & Compliance
Consent Category: Functional
Lithium/Khoros community widgets serve a functional purpose: enabling user participation in support forums and product discussions. The cookies set are primarily for session management and authentication within the community feature.
Should You Block This Without Consent?
Conditional. If the community widget only sets session and authentication cookies necessary for its function, it can be classified as functional and may not require consent. However, if Lithium/Khoros scripts include analytics tracking or behavioral profiling beyond the community feature, consent should be obtained. Review the specific scripts loaded to confirm no analytics or marketing trackers are bundled.
Is Lithium GDPR compliant?
Lithium 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 Lithium 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 Lithium, not on Lithium itself.
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Tracked Domains (1)
Lithium's trackers are rarely seen, seen on a small share of the sites ConsentStack has scanned. Scan your own site to see which of these are firing before consent.
lithium.comEssentiallithium.com is an essential domain operated by Lithium, used to keep the site working, including security, load balancing, and sessions. Seen on a small share of scanned sites.
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