How is PRIVACY_URL supposed to work?

[keunes]

Hello,

We've set up Weblate via Docker at work as a trial, to see if we can use it for our needs.

In order to comply with GDPR, we need users to accept our organisation's privacy policy. To that end, we've set the WEBLATE_PRIVACY_URL environment variable.

The docs suggest that this would be relevant in our case:

Useful if you host your legal documents outside Weblate for embedding them inside Weblate, please check Legal module for details.

We have also set up WEBLATE_LEGAL_INTEGRATION: tos-confirm.

However:

• The privacy link in the footer lead to the default in-Weblate page rather than what we've set via WEBLATE_PRIVACY_URL
• The registration/log-in process does not show a link to what we've set via WEBLATE_PRIVACY_URL, but instead shows a message saying that we've not provided the legal texts (which is correct but intended):

As we have set WEBLATE_LEGAL_INTEGRATION: tos-confirm and WEBLATE_PRIVACY_URL: https:/somedomain.com/privacy-policy, I'd assume that the user must tick the checkbox for the privacy policy and that there's a link to the provided URL.

Are we misunderstanding how it's supposed to work?

[nijel]

You either use the legal module which embeds the information in Weblate or use LEGAL_URL / PRIVACY_URL to add footer links to external documents. We should really clarify the documentation on this.

[nijel]

#19846 clarifies it and makes it possible to use external URLs even with the legal app.