Configure Cookie Banner

With your Privacy Pillar portal account, after scanning your website for cookies or adding the cookie details manually, you can now configure your cookie consent banner to be displayed on your domain.

You can configure your cookie banner concerning the following three regulations: configure all three types of cookie banners, or configure any of the three types for your domain.

1) California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) - This regulation applies to the state of California (USA). To know more about CCPA, see CCPA FAQs.

2) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Applicable to the European Union. To know more about GDPR, see GDPR FAQs.

3) Global - Applicable to the rest of the world.

• To open the Banner Configuration page, in the property selection menu, select the desired property, and then in the Cookie Consent menu, click Configure Banner.
  
• The Banner configuration page appears.
• You can access the Cookie Scanner, Cookie Category, and Implementation page in addition to the Banner Configuration, by clicking on the corresponding tabs provided at the top left of the Cookie Banner page.
  
• Click the Cookie Scanner tab to get to the Cookie Scanner page.
  
• Click the link Access the Cookie Scanner to know how to access Cookie Scanner.
• Click the Cookie Category tab to get to the Cookie Category page. 
   
• Click the link Access to Cookie Category to know how to access Cookie Category.
• Click the Implementation tab to get to the Implementation page. 

• To implement the Privacy Pillar Application on your website click on the respective link 
• Implement on your Website HTML
• Implement on WordPress
• Implement on Shopify
• Implement on Squarespace
• Implement on Blogger
• Implement on Big Commerce

Under Enable Regulations the CCPA, GDPR, and Global check boxes are kept selected by default which means you can configure cookie banners of all three types displaying on the domain.

If you don't want to configure any regulation, clear the respective check box.

Multiple Device Live Preview 

You can preview cookie notices and privacy settings pop-ups of each type, while you are configuring the banner.

You can change the device at the bottom. 

Regulation Configurations

CCPA Banner Configuration

Follow the steps if you are configuring a banner for CCPA regulation.

1. On the Banner Configuration page, under Enable Regulations, select the CCPA check box.
2. In the CCPA Target box, select your target area, that is select California or USA.
   
   CCPA Target means the domain users from the selected region will get the CCPA banner and the rest of the users will get the default banner that you selected under the Advanced Features.
3. If you want to display only the CCPA banner throughout the world, select CCPA Everywhere.
   
4. If you want to enable GPC (Global Privacy Control) and LSPA (Limited Service Provider Agreement) features toggle on Enable LSPA and Enable GPC toggle buttons. To know more about GPC kindly visit the GPC page. To know more about LSPA kindly visit the LSPA page.
   

GDPR Banner Configuration

Follow the steps if you are configuring a banner for GDPR.

1. Under Enable Regulations, select the GDPR check box.
2. In the GDPR Target list, the 27 European Union countries are included by default.
   To remove any country from the list, clear the check box of that country. Or type the country_name to search and then clear.
   
   GDPR Target means the domain users from the selected countries will get the GDPR banner and the rest of the users will get the default banner that you selected under the Advanced Features.    
3. To enable IAB vendors and Google vendors, toggle on Enable IAB and Google Vendors respectively.
   
4. If you want to display only the GDPR banner, select GDPR Everywhere.

Global Banner Configuration

To configure a global banner, under Enable Regulations, click the Global check box.

If you want to display only the Global banner, select Global Everywhere.

Banner Type

We provide two types of banners, 1) Header/footer type banners and 2) Box type banners with various positions. You can choose your appropriate type. 

• Under banner type, select any banner type.
  

Advanced Features

Once Regulation Configuration is done, you can customize the banner using the advanced features.
       

Default Regulation

• In Default Regulation, select a regulation. When users from out of the targeted area visit your domain, the selected banner type will be displayed.

Cookie Blocking

• To enable cookie blocking, toggle on Cookie Blocking and select Manual or Auto.
  
  To learn about this feature, see Cookie Blocking.

Show Watermark

• It shows the Privacy Pillar branding watermark on the right-bottom of the privacy settings pop-up.
  
  To clear the Show Watermark, click the toggle button. 
  
  

Mute Cookie Notice

• If you want to mute the cookie notice on the domain, toggle on Mute Cookie Notice.
  If you enable this feature when the user visits the domain, the cookie notice will not be displayed.
  

Show Disabled Button on Banner

• If you disable this button the Disable All button will not show up on the GDPR and Global Banner.

Banner Z-index

You can adjust the banner's z-index to suit your needs.

Google Consent

You can setup Google Consent Mode with cookie banner by enabling the Google Consent Mode toggle button. 

To learn more about this feature. see Privacy Pillar and Google Consent Mode

Badge

• You can display a Cookie Consent badge or fingerprint icon as the badge on the domain after closing the cookie notice. When the user clicks the badge the privacy settings will pop up.
  
  
  To remove the badge, clear the Show Badge check box.

Branding

On the cookie consent privacy settings pop-up, you can add your logo.

• Under Branding, click Choose File, then upload your logo from your computer.
  The image of a logo in JPG, JPEG, PNG, and SVG can be supported.
  
  The logo preview appears below. If you want to remove the logo, click Remove below the preview. 
• In the Custom CSS area, you can add CSS code to your banner to improve its aesthetic appeal. An example is given below.
  
• This code will turn the banner heading text color into blue, the font size will be larger, and the font-weight will be 900.

Manage Languages

You can display the consent banner in various languages like English, Chinese, French, and so on.

The default language of the cookie banner is English. But you can add more language options using settings.

1. On the Banner Configuration page, click the Languages tab.
   
2. To add any languages from the list, click the check box right to the language.
   The selected language options will be added in the privacy settings.
3. To make your preferred language as default, select the language, then click the button in the Default column right to the language.

Note: The banner is displayed on your domain in the default language. The user can change the banner language with Privacy Setting.
       

Edit Contents

Banner Content

You can edit the content of the cookie banner and the privacy policy link.

• Click the Content tab and under Banner click Cookie Notice.
  
  It shows the content of the GDPR banner.
• In the same way, you can edit the contents of the CCPA and Global banner also. In Live Preview, you can change the regulation.

Banner Buttons

You can edit each button title of every regulation banner.

• In the Content tab, under Banner, click Buttons.
• In Live Preview, select CCPA or Global. In the same way, you can edit other button titles.

Preference (Privacy settings) Content

You can edit the contents and button names of the privacy settings pop-up.

• In the Content tab, switch to Preference.
  
• In the privacy settings of the GDPR banner Purpose and Vendors tabs with their descriptions are available and edit the content of those descriptions. In Purpose Description, you can edit the text.
  
  In the same way, you can edit the Vendors Description.
• In Live Preview, select CCPA to edit Purpose and Privacy descriptions. In the same way, you can edit descriptions of the Global regulation banner.  

Preference Buttons

• In the Content tab, under Preference click Buttons to edit the button names.
  

Note: If you added multiple language options, whatever you make the changes in the contents, make the same changes with every other language too. To change the preview language click Preview Language and select another language to edit.

The languages you added through the Languages setting will appear here.

Layout

Banner Layout

• You can select a Light Theme or Dark Theme for the banner.
  
• To customize the theme, click Custom Theme, then click Cookie Notice, and you can customize the colors of the Background, banner Text, Border, and Privacy Link.
  To change the color, click the color box and select a color or enter a color code.
  

• You can customize the name and color of each button.
  In Live Preview, select other regulation banners to customize the buttons.
• You can customize the margin of the cookie notice too.
• Click Margins and you can customize all-around margins by increasing or decreasing the pixel value. 
  
• You can also customize the cookie notice padding.
• Click Padding, and you can customize the pixel value.
  

Preference (Privacy Settings) Layout

To customize the privacy settings pop-up, switch to Preference and click Custom Theme.

• To change the background and text colors, click Preference. 
  
• To customize the colors of the cookie category, click Purpose.
• You can customize the buttons of the privacy settings pop-up. Click the Accept All tab.
  In the same way, you can customize the other buttons. For the other regulation banners, in Live Preview, select the other regulations to customize their buttons.

Badge Layout

• You can customize the cookie consent badge colors too.
  
• Click the Badge Button and customize the colors.

Manage Purposes

In Manage Purposes there are six customizable cookie categories with their respective descriptions available.

• You can choose any preview language from the language drop-down and the banner will then display in that language.
• Allow Purpose by Default 
  -It enables allowing all the six cookie categories Essential, Advertising, Functional, Social Media, Analytics, and Unknown cookies by default when the domain user accepts through the cookie consent banner. To turn off allowing those cookie categories except Essential Cookies, click the toggle button.
• There are six categories by default, you can deselect any category which is not applicable to your website. To be more precise, as per the cookie scan results, you select which cookies are present and unselect the others.
  
• To reposition any cookie category tab, click and drag to the desired position.
  
• To edit the title and description of any cookie category, click the category and click the same category in the preview. Now you can edit the category title and description.

Display Frequency 

If you want to define the frequency of displaying the banner, which means the repetition of cookie banner display for the various actions from the website user.

1. Enable Display Frequency.
2. Hover over to see the description of each setting.
3. To change the frequency of displaying the cookie banner, enter a value or click ∧ or ∨ to change the value.
4. Select any span Hour, Day, or Page View.
   Page View means the cookie banner displays after a specific number of visiting the domain.

Manage Vendors

1. For the GDPR, if you enable IAB and/or Google vendors, you manage the list of vendors under the Manage Vendors tab.
   
   It shows IAB vendors by default. To view the Google vendors, click Google Vendors. By default, all vendors are active.
2. To deactivate any vendor, clear the check box. In the search box type a vendor’s_name to search.
3. To see the privacy policy of any vendor, click right to the vendor's name.
4. You can allow all the vendors by clicking on Allow All, and disallow all by clicking on Disallow All. By default, all the vendors are allowed.
   
   
   Note: You can't disallow all Iab or Google vendors, at least one lab or Google vendor should be allowed. If you try to delete all vendors the following pop-up will appear.

   

Save and Publish

1. To save the progress of your configuration, click Save.
   
2. Once you have completed all the configurations, click Publish to implement the banner on your website.
   A Production CDN script pop-up will appear.
   
3. On the other hand, you can proceed to the Implementation page by clicking the Implementation button or the Implementation option in the cookie consent menu.
4. Click Copy Script, the script is copied to the clipboard. Now you can add this JS code to your website code to publish the banner.
   
   Note: On the webpage of your domain where you want to implement the Cookie Banner, you must insert the CDN script before the </head> closing tag.
   Note: If you choose CCPA regulation and enable GPC and your user has also GPC enabled on his browser then he will get the GPC banner when he visits your website. The user only needs to click Continue and Do not sell my data will be recorded automatically.

   
5. If you want to learn how to integrate the Privacy Pillar script into your website, click on the respective site and follow the steps.
   

Update Cookie Banner

To make any changes to your cookie banner, 

1. Go to the Cookie Banner configuration page, make any changes, then click Save.
2. When you click Publish, it asks for confirmation to let your website users give consent again.
   
3. If you click Yes when the users visit your website or refresh the page, the cookie notice will appear again. Or else click No.
   
   Note: After making any changes to the cookie banner and you must publish it again to reflect the changes on your domain. Once you published, it may take several minutes to reflect on your production.

Publish History

You can see the cookie banner's version history, as well as manage them.

• At the bottom-right of the page, click Publish History.
  
  The publishing history appears.
• If you have a sequence of versions, you can roll back into an older version or you can delete the version.
  
  - Click and click Rollback or Delete.
• Select 10, 20, or 30 from the pagination dropdown and view records as per your requirement.