Cookie consent guides for WordPress
What the privacy rules ask of a website, in plain English, with sources, and how to set each one up on WordPress.
CCPA opt-out banner for WordPress
California lets people opt out of the sale and sharing of their personal information. If your WordPress site runs advertising pixels or tags, the opt-out has to be easy to find, has to work, and has to honor Global Privacy Control.
Read the CCPA opt-out banner guideGlobal Privacy Control for WordPress
Global Privacy Control (GPC) is a setting in a visitor’s browser that tells every site they visit: don’t sell or share my personal information. A growing list of US states requires websites to treat it as an opt-out.
Read the Global Privacy Control guideGoogle Consent Mode v2 for WordPress
Consent Mode tells Google’s tags (Analytics, Ads, Tag Manager) what each visitor agreed to, so the tags adjust. Version 2 added two signals for advertising, and Google uses them to decide what it may do with data from visitors in the European Economic Area.
Read the Google Consent Mode v2 guideGDPR cookie banner for WordPress
In the EU and UK, a site needs consent before it sets cookies that aren’t strictly necessary. A cookie banner is how most sites ask, and regulators have said clearly what a fair one looks like.
Read the GDPR cookie banner guideConsent Management Platform (CMP) for WordPress
A consent management platform asks visitors what they allow, holds back trackers until they answer, keeps a record, and passes the choice on to the tools that need it. Here’s what that means on WordPress, and when you need a Google-certified one.
Read the Consent management platform guideLooking for a specific law? Browse every privacy law
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