Free privacy banner
A complete consent platform — free forever, no account required.
Everything CookieYes and Complianz charge for, free and un-metered — installed in minutes, live on activation, no account required. And when you're ready, a free Consent Resolve account upgrades it to the hosted banner with managed rules and dashboards.
Most 'banners' just show text while the trackers fire anyway. That's the exposure regulators actually act on — and it's also why ad platforms distrust your signals.
Everything the free privacy banner does
Banner + preference center
Five layouts (box, top/bottom bar, modal, corner), per-category toggles across five consent categories, and a reopen-preferences shortcode for your footer.
Real script blocking — 58 services
A curated library of the trackers stores actually use (GA4, GTM, Meta Pixel, Google Ads, TikTok, Hotjar, Clarity, and more) held until the visitor consents — not cosmetically hidden.
Google Consent Mode v2 + Microsoft UET
Default-denied consent signals wired in for compliant measurement on both ad stacks, updated the instant a visitor chooses.
GPC & Do Not Track honored
Global Privacy Control is legally required in California, Colorado, and Connecticut — and paywalled almost everywhere else. Free here, honored automatically.
Region-aware rules
US opt-out (with Do Not Sell/Share link), EU/UK/EEA/Switzerland opt-in, Canada, and a safest worldwide profile — auto-detected per visitor from your CDN's geo headers.
Tamper-evident consent records
Every choice is written to a hash-chained log in your own database — verifiable, unlimited, never metered. Proof of who consented to what, and when.
No pre-ticked consent
The preference center defaults to your region's policy — in opt-in regions, marketing starts unchecked. Reject is always as easy as Accept. No dark patterns.
Accessible & fast
WCAG 2.2 AA — focus-trapped, keyboard-operable, screen-reader announced — with zero layout shift and the blocking engine inlined before paint.
Yours to style
Accent, text, surface, radius, and custom CSS from the admin — the banner matches your theme, with no vendor branding, ever.
Set up once, then it runs itself.
Activate
The banner is live the moment you activate the plugin — region rules, blocking, and Consent Mode included. No signup, no key, no meter.
Style & place
Pick a layout, set your colors, and drop the [crw_manage_consent] reopen link in your footer. Done in five minutes.
Upgrade when ready (also free)
Connect a free Consent Resolve account and the hosted banner takes over — managed rules that update as laws change, plus consent records and privacy requests in one dashboard.
Free forever isn't the trial. It's the product.
The banner, blocking, Consent Mode, GPC, and unlimited consent records are permanently free — the compliance features you're legally required to have should never sit behind a paywall. The paid thing is visitor resolution, and only if you want it.
Questions
Is the free banner really complete?
Yes. Banner + preference center, script blocking for 58 services, Consent Mode v2, Microsoft UET, GPC/DNT honoring, region auto-detection, and tamper-evident consent records — free, unlimited, and unbranded. No account required.
What does connecting a Consent Resolve account add?
The account is free too. It swaps the built-in banner for the hosted Consent Resolve banner — consent rules managed and updated for you as laws change, records and privacy requests in one dashboard — and it's the doorway to consent-clean retargeting audiences and visitor resolution.
Will it break my forms or booking widget?
No. Unrecognized scripts are allowed by default and flagged for review rather than silently blocked, so your store keeps working.
Is there a pageview limit or branding?
No. Both CookieYes and Complianz meter pageviews and charge for GPC. CartConsent's banner is un-metered and unbranded at every tier.