Django Consent Log

Some django views which log actions taken on the frontend, these return an emtpy HTML page and are intended to be called from an ajax function on the frontend. No frontent functions are provided but there are many cookie and other consent banner action projects on npmjs.com which can be use the build the frontend component.

The timestamp, user agent string, referrer are stored along with a boolean flag for consent /reject status. Additionally the request body is also stored so the frontend can send supplemental data to store.

An expiry framework is included which provides a mechanism for deletion of records older than a certain, the rentenion period can be set in the settings.py file. The expiry framework also has a mechanism to limit it runs to a maximum frequency.

Anonymized IP address storage is planned but not yet implemented.

This provides the views and the management logs for the purpose

Setup

Add:

'consent_log'

to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py and also a set an integer value CONSENT_LOG_DAYS_EXPIRY to settings.py to configure the length of time that consent record live for.

You must also set the boolean value CONSENT_LOG_AUTO_EXPIRE, this setting is treated as a booleand and if true expire_consent_log() is call on every request to the confirm or reject views.

If you use the expire_consent_log() model function (such as via the auto expire setting above), or expireconset management command you can set a maximum frequency at which the the expire run will happen.

CONSENT_LOG_EXPIRY_MIN_PERIOD = 7 # Only run expiry once a week maxmum.

you must set ths variable if you use these entrypoints.

To Use

Add something like the following to your projects urls.py..

path("consent_log/", include("consent_log.urls"))

This add the modules endpoints to your defined urls, our urls are reversable and named consent-log:confirm and ‘consent-log:reject`` within django url namespace so can be reference as those insire your django templates.

You will need to write or import your own frontend integration to send the actions to record to this module.