By Webz on

Can anyone tell me if there a way to easily integrate a check box in the user registration page for a "terms of use" and or "privacy policy" information in Drupal 6.x? I do see a few mods for 4.7 and 5.x but nothing as of yet for 6.x.

In addition, can anyone tell me if I also have OpenID enabled will having a checkbox still work?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been searching for an answer for well over an hour.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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zilla commented

okay, was looking for the same thing for COPPA compliance (a checkbox like "you must be 13 or older" etc)

here's what to do:

go to admin/user management/profiles -

add new field: checkbox

give it a title and a form name, etc - AND in the 'explanation' box that users see, you can use html to link to the full node for your terms of service etc...

*visibility* set to "private field, content only available to privileged users" (so that others won't see it in a user profile except for admin)

leave page title blank (duh)

make it required
make it visible in user registration form.

you're done. repeat for privacy statement, etc...

NOTE: if you have both a terms of service and a private statement, consider creating both in a 'group' of profile fields called "Terms of Use and Privacy" (do this by puttting that in the category at the top of the same page) - by doing this, both will appear in their own little neat box on the user registration form.

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colan
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There's already a site recipe for this over at http://drupal.org/node/112519. If someone could add this D6 version to that HowTo page, it would truly be excellent. ;)

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vm commented

Added 6.x and tagged for 6.x

If you want something wit more control, investigate the terms_of_use.module or legal.module.

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PaulWood commented

So, what's to keep a user from going to their profile later and unchecking the Terms of Service and/or Privacy Statement boxes? If a legal question should arise, they could claim that they never checked the box because they did not read the TOS or PS and therefore did not accept them. Am I missing something here?

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It's not possible to claim that they never checked the box because if that were true, the form wouldn't have validated & they wouldn't have an account.

Having said that, it's probably a good idea to add a clause that says if they remove consent (uncheck the box later), then they have to stop using the site or some such thing.

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PaulWood commented

Yup. That makes sense.

However, subsequent to my post above, I experimented a bit and unchecked the boxes. When I attempted to save the profile I got the Drupal 'field is requred' message. So, guess the user cannot uncheck the boxes and successfully resave his profile. - That's a good thing! I'm happy now.

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pyallen97 commented

This is exactly what I needed. You explained it well. Thanks again

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leanazulyoro commented

Is there a way of adding a checkbox for privacy policy in a node add form?
in a asite i'm working on i need anonimous users to create content, but i'd need to add that checkbox in the node creation form... any idea?

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mrgoltra commented

+

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robert castelo commented

Drupal 6 port of the Legal module is mostly done. Still need to deal with Open ID login, write more test coverage, and generally test more. Anyone who's interested please lend a hand.

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