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Complianz GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner

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Publish your cookie banner or notice in minutes. Automatically scan cookies, and create policies to align with GDPR, CCPA, and Google Consent Mode.

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What you get inside

7 screens
  • Complianz Dashboard: Your privacy HUB

  • The Wizard: Generate a cookie policy and configure consent management to your specific needs.

  • Automatic Cookie Scan: Weekly scan of your website to keep you up-to-date!

  • Customize your Cookie Banner: Including template styles and a range of styling options, WCAG conform. Custom CSS available for full control!

  • Integrations: Dedicated integrations with the most popular plugins, themes and services. Feature requests are possible!

  • Placeholders: Still images for video placeholders and individual placeholders for social media widgets. Fully customizable as well!

  • Legal Documents: Dedicated legal documents per region. Generated by you through the wizard, drafted, and updated by our IT Law firm.

About this plugin

Complianz is a Google-certified CMP (Consent Management Platform) for automated cookie notice and consent management. Set up a fully customizable cookie banner, auto-scan your cookies, generate customized cookie policy, and align with GDPR, ePrivacy, DSGVO, TTDSG, LGPD (Brasil), POPIA, APA, RGPD, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA (Canada), and other privacy laws.

Trusted by 1,000,000+ users across 15+ languages, 10+ years of WordPress experience. Wizard-based easy setup; no coding required.

Why millions of websites choose Complianz

  • Fast setup: The guided setup walks you through each step from start to finish. You won’t need any legal or coding knowledge to get started.
  • Automatic cookie scan: Complianz scans your site and shows you exactly which cookies and scripts are active, so you’re not left guessing.
  • Work with the tools you already use: Connect with tools like Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics. No need to rethink your existing setup.
  • Transparent Plans: Complianz free or paid plans don’t have monthly page views or sessions limits, so you can focus on your traffic growth.

Features

Answer a few questions in the Wizard, scan your WordPress site, and in a few minutes, Complianz sets up your consent settings based on your setup and location. It automatically configures consent settings based on your plugins, services, and region.

Consent Management

  • Auto-Configuration Wizard: Automatically sets up your site based on wizard questions, website scan (up to 50 posts), and dedicated plugin integrations.
  • Third-Party Cookie Blocking: Blocks cookies from Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram, AdSense, HubSpot, reCAPTCHA, Twitter, ActiveCampaign, and more.
  • Automatic Plugin & Service Detection: Custom integrations for plugins, themes, and services are detected automatically.
  • Blocks iFrames, like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion embedded videos and Social iFrames e.g. Instagram, Facebook et al.
  • Placeholder Support: Shows video stills and individual placeholders for each blocked iFrame or social service.
  • Script Center: Control scripts, iFrames, and plugins per category or service, — with dependency functionality and placeholder management.
  • Proof of Consent: Records user consent following GDPR data minimization guidelines for audit-ready compliance.
  • Periodic Cookie Scan: Automatically scans for changes in cookies, plugins, and third-party services on your site.
  • Auto-Detection: Detects whether your site requires a cookie banner based on your current setup.
  • Analytics Anonymization: Automatically anonymizes personal data for integrated statistics tools when needed.

Cookie Consent Notice

  • Region-Specific Cookie Banner: Display a cookie consent banner tailored to the EU, UK, US, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, — or use one banner worldwide.
  • Subregion Consent Rules: Configure consent per subregion, such as TTDSG/DSGVO for Germany, CNIL for France, or CCPA/CPRA/CTDPA for specific US states.
  • Banner Templates: Choose from multiple layouts: Cookie Wall, Accept/Dismiss, Consent per Category, or Consent per Service.
  • Banner Templates include: GDPR-friendly Cookie Wall – Accept/Dismiss – Consent per Category – Consent per Service
  • Legislation-Based Dismiss Options: Enable dismiss on scroll, time on page, or both and automatically adapt based on your applicable privacy law.
  • Custom CSS & Templates: Fully customizable cookie banner design with your own CSS and templates.
  • WCAG 2.1 AA & ADA Compliant: Cookie banners and legal documents designed following accessibility best practices.
  • No jQuery Dependency: Fast and lightweight. No jQuery required.

Privacy Laws & Guidelines

  • Global Privacy Law Support: Ready for GDPR, ePrivacy, LGPD, DSGVO, CNIL, PECR, UK GDPR, UK DPA, CCPA, CPRA, COPPA, PIPEDA, CASL, POPIA, Australian Privacy Act, and the Brazilian General Data Protection Law.
  • Regulation Differentiation: Distinguish between overlapping laws — GDPR vs. DSGVO/CNIL, CCPA vs. DNSMPI, or NRS 603A — based on your visitors’ location.
  • Continuously Updated: Closely follows the latest developments in ePrivacy regulation, cookie law proposals, and global privacy legislation.

Legal Documents

  • Cookie Policy Generator: Generate a Cookie Policy with an easy wizard, drafted by an IT law firm.
  • Do Not Sell My Personal Information: DNSMPI Page for CCPA/CPRA – if required. (Now called Opt-out Preferences.)
  • Terms and Conditions are available in a separate plugin: Complianz – Terms and Conditions

250+ Service & Plugin Integrations

  • Cookie Database Integration: Cookie Database Integration: Prefills cookie data from cookiedatabase.org, provides clear, transparent descriptions, and keeps everything continuously updated.
  • WordPress Privacy Features: Export and erase personal data directly from your WordPress dashboard.
  • Analytics & Tag Manager Support: Built-in support for Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Matomo, Matomo Tag Manager, Clicky, Yandex, Jetpack, and Burst Statistics.
  • Cookie Categorization: Categorize cookies using Tag Manager or the built-in Script Center.
  • Integration with the WP Consent API
  • WP Consent API: Full integration with the WP Consent API for consent state sharing across plugins.
  • Plugin Compatibility: Works with Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, WooCommerce, Gravity Forms, WPForms, Contact Form 7, MonsterInsights, Forminator, HappyForms, Easy Digital Downloads, WP Google Maps, CAOS, and many more.
  • Theme & Page Builder Tested: Tested with popular WordPress themes and page builders.
  • Gutenberg Blocks: Includes native Gutenberg Blocks for easy content integration.

Support

Get help through the WordPress.org forum. You can check the documentation or browse existing threads or open a new one if you need more support.

Share a clear description of your issue and the team will get back to you as soon as possible.

Useful Links

Premium Features

Go beyond the basics with the full website scan, advanced tools for legal documents, and premium support.

Cookie Consent Notice

  • Improve conversion with A/B testing: Test different cookie banners and measure which ones lead to higher consent rates.

Consent Management

  • Records of Consent: Keep records of your consent management changes and user’s consent registration. Integrates with Proof of Consent.
  • Respects the Do Not Track settings and Global Privacy Controls in end-users’ browsers.
  • Geo IP Cookie Consent: Display the correct Cookie notice based on IP location, but only if a banner is needed.
  • Google Consent Mode: Use Consent Mode by Google with Google Tag Manager or Google Analytics to optimize ad performance with compliance. No further set-up needed.
  • Integration with TCF v2.0: An IAB Europe Consent Framework for publishers. Registered CMP ID: 332
  • Data Request Forms and Registration

Privacy Laws & Guidelines

  • Simultaneously select USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Brazil and the EU as targeted regions with conditional Consent and dedicated Cookie Banners.
  • Support for GDPR / ePrivacy – European Union with Extension for Switzerland.
  • Support for USA / CCPA/CPRA/CPA/CTDPA/NRS 603A/UCPA/VCDPA
  • Support for UK-GDPR / PECR and ICO Guidelines – United Kingdom.
  • Support for PIPEDA and CASL – Canada.
  • Support for Privacy Act 1988 & Australian Privacy Principles
  • Support for POPIA, the South African Protection of Personal Information Act
  • Supports The “Marco Civil” and the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD)

Legal Documents

  • Privacy statements (EU, CA, UK, AU, ZA, BR & USA).
  • Cookie policy (EU, UK, CA, AU, ZA, BR & USA).
  • Impressum (Germany & Austria) & Imprint for world wide use.
  • Disclaimer
  • Terms & Conditions Integration
  • Processing agreements (EU, UK, CA, AU, ZA, BR & USA).
  • Dataleak reporting tools (EU, UK, CA, AU, ZA, BR & USA).
  • Supports CCPA Consent and Legal documents.
  • COPPA ready with Children’s Privacy Policy (USA)
  • Children’s Privacy Policy (UK,CA & AU)

Support & Updates

  • Premium Support from our amazing team.
  • Premium updates, new languages, features, regions and more to create the Ultimate Privacy Suite for WordPress.

About Complianz

Check out other plugins developed by Really Simple Security as well: Really Simple Security

Complianz is on GitHub as well!

IMPORTANT! Complianz | GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent can help you meet compliance requirements, but the user must ensure that all requirements are met.

Complianz provides your Cookie Policy with comprehensive cookie descriptions, supplied by cookiedatabase.org, operated by Complianz B.V. The plugin sends the results of Complianz’ local or advanced website scan to Cookiedatabase.org, for the sole purpose of providing you with accurate descriptions and keeping them up-to-date on a regular basis. The advanced website scan can be initialized after authentication and consent for security purposes.

We collect for research purposes:

  • Cookie names
  • Domain that provides the cookie names
  • Plugin list on the domain

For more information:

For security purposes, we authenticate the advanced website scan with:

  • Email address

The advanced website scan collects public data from the user’s site, stores it for one hour, and then discards it without analysis.

For more information:

Contact us if you have any questions, issues, or suggestions. Complianz | GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent is developed by Complianz B.V..

Questions

Knowledgebase

Complianz maintains a continuously growing knowledgebase about GDPR, including subregions e.g. DSGVO and CNIL, CCPA, PIPEDA, COPPA, POPIA & other specific laws on complianz.io

Is my website GDPR, COPPA, CCPA, DSGVO, TTDSG, AVG, CNIL, UK-GDPR, PECR, CASL, LGPD, POPIA and/or PIPEDA compliant with this plugin?

We cannot guarantee compliance for your website. A correct configuration of this plugin by a website administrator is always required.

When do I need a Cookie Notice?

Complianz | GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent will determine this automatically based on the laws of the region or regions, where most of your visitors come from.
Regarding CCPA/CPRA, you always have to show which cookies you are using but there’s no obligation in asking consent.

Do I always need a consent checkbox on contact forms?

Not always. The Complianz Privacy Suite Premium plugin can determine if you need this, based on your answers in the wizard. It mainly depends on the type of information and the reason why your visitor use the contact form.

What is the GDPR?

The GDPR is a regulation within the EU law on privacy and data protection for any citizen within the EU and European Economic Area. It aims primarily on giving control to individuals over their personal data. The GDPR also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU.

What is the CCPA?

The CCPA (Californian Privacy Act) is a law set up by the Californian government. The law is adjudged to be one of the toughest and farthest-reaching consumer privacy laws in the US. It is mostly focused on giving insights on what personal data business gather and how to protect and control these personal data.

What is COPPA?

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is a law designed to protect the online privacy of children under 13. It was set up in the 1990’s and states that website owners have to meet certain requirements regarding visitors with the age under 13.

What are PECR & UK-GDPR?

PECR (UK) covers the use of cookies and similar technologies for storing information and accessing information stored, on a user’s equipment such as a computer or mobile device.

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