Widget & product
A local area map without cookies or a banner
By M. Moes · Published on 22 October 2026
The NearPin widget places no tracking cookies and stores no personal data about your visitors. That is why you do not need to add a cookie banner for the widget. If you use other services on your website that do set cookies, you still need a banner for those.
What the widget remembers
The widget stores one thing in the visitor's browser: the language the visitor chooses. That is not a tracking cookie and no personal data is attached. To stop the same click from counting twice within 60 minutes, our server keeps a derived code (a hash) for up to an hour, not the IP address itself. That code is not stored in the database and disappears on its own.
What you see in the statistics
You see how often the map was viewed and which places were clicked. You do not see who did it. The details are deleted after 35 days. The totals are kept.
Why this helps you
A cookie banner costs you visitors and needs maintenance. Every service on your site that sets cookies makes your banner more complicated. With a widget that does not, you have nothing to change.
Stay critical
Whether your website needs a banner depends on everything that runs on it. Have your whole site checked. The NearPin widget is in any case no reason to add one.