General Settings

Your General Settings section is the central place to configure everything about how your CMP works, looks, and enforces consent. It includes:

• Categories: Define the types of cookies and trackers you need consent for, like "Necessary," "Analytics," or "Advertising."
• Vendors & Trackers: Maintain a list of known vendors and domains that need to be blocked or managed, with category assignments.
• Consent Modal & UI Text: Customize all text, labels, translations, and button layout behavior shown to visitors in your consent banner and preferences modal.
• Default Consent Settings: Set the default consent mode (opt-in or opt-out), regional overrides, automatic page refreshing, and versioning.

Each of these helps you:

• Collect clear, granular consent for each purpose and vendor.
• Ensure compliance with laws like GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA.
• Provide a branded, clear experience with customizable text and design.
• Keep your site privacy-friendly by preventing unauthorized tracking before consent.

Below you'll find details on each part:

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Categories

Define the categories users see when managing their consent. Examples include:

• Necessary (cannot be disabled)
• Analytics
• Advertising
• Custom categories you define

Categories allow granular consent collection and make sure your site aligns with legal requirements for purpose-based consent.

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Vendors & Trackers

Set up the list of scripts, domains, and vendors that need consent management:

• Add domain patterns (e.g. google-analytics.com)
• Assign them to categories
• Add internal notes for team management

This ensures accurate blocking and transparent disclosure.

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Consent Modal & UI Text

Customize the full user experience:

• Banner titles and descriptions
• Buttons (Accept All, Reject All, Preferences)
• Included button layout strategy per region
• Terms of Service and Privacy Policy URLs
• Footer text and preferences modal sections
• Support for translations and region-specific language

Helps create a clear, branded, and compliant interface for your visitors.

Included Buttons (Consent Modal)

Ours Privacy CMP supports 5 consent modal button layout presets:

• Accept, Reject and Preferences
• Accept and Preferences
• Information Only (No Buttons)
• Preferences Only
• Accept Only

This gives you granular control over how action-heavy or action-light your modal should be by jurisdiction and policy model.

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Default Consent Settings

Set the overall behavior of your consent system:

• Consent mode (opt-in or opt-out)
• Auto show banner on load
• Auto Show Dismiss Settings
• Disable page interaction until consent
• Region-specific overrides with tailored modes and text
• Consent revision/versioning to ensure you can roll out new policies safely

These settings ensure your site behaves correctly by default for all users, while giving flexibility for local laws and best practices.

Auto Show Dismiss Settings

When "Auto show banner on load" is enabled, you can configure when the consent modal automatically dismisses:

• Dismiss Mode: Choose when the modal should automatically dismiss:

  • Never: The modal continues to show on every page until the user interacts with it (default behavior)
  • After X Pages: Automatically dismisses after the user navigates through a specified number of pages
  • After X Seconds: Automatically dismisses after a specified number of seconds

• Page Count (when "After X Pages" is selected): The number of pages the user can navigate to before the modal automatically dismisses. The modal will show on each page until this count is reached.

• Seconds (when "After X Seconds" is selected): The number of seconds the modal should be displayed before automatically dismissing. The timer starts when the modal is first shown.

Use Cases:

• Never: Best for strict compliance requirements where explicit user interaction is required
• After X Pages: Useful for reducing banner fatigue while still ensuring visibility across multiple pages
• After X Seconds: Ideal for providing a brief opportunity for users to see and interact with the banner before it auto-dismisses

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Global Privacy Control (GPC) Notification

When a user has Global Privacy Control (GPC) enabled in their browser and your CMP settings are configured to respect GPC signals, a notification will appear in the consent window stating: "We detected and are honoring your Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal". This notification is visually highlighted to inform users that their GPC decision is being respected.

GPC respect settings can be configured globally or per region using Regional Policies, allowing you to comply with privacy laws like CCPA and CPRA that require honoring GPC signals.

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Next Steps

• Regional Policies: Create region-specific consent policies
• Script Blocking: Configure automatic and manual script blocking
• Styling & Customization: Customize the visual appearance