FAQ
Questions and answers
Everything people ask before and after installing Cookiequiet. Missing one? Write to us.Cookiequiet is a cookie consent banner, consent log and privacy policy generator for websites. You add one script tag; the banner asks visitors for consent with Accept all and Reject all at equal prominence, scripts marked for a category run only after consent, every choice is recorded as proof, and a scanner finds your cookies and writes the policies. There are unlimited pageviews on every plan, including the free one.
Websites that need a compliant banner without a pageview-based bill: shops, blogs, SaaS sites, agencies that manage client sites, and developers on WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Next.js or a static site. It is not for publishers who serve Google AdSense, Ad Manager or AdMob ads to European visitors, because those ads need a Google-certified CMP and Cookiequiet is not one yet.
Cookiequiet is free for one website with unlimited pageviews and geo-targeting included. Pro costs €3 per website per month or €29 per website per year, the same figures in dollars: 70% less than CookieYes Basic ($10 a month for 100,000 pageviews) and 95% less than CookieYes Ultimate ($55 a month, their only plan without a pageview cap). Agency costs €19 a month or €190 a year for 10 Pro websites, and a lifetime licence costs €79 per website, once. The full comparison is at [/vs/cookieyes](/vs/cookieyes).
One website with every core feature: the banner in 24 languages, Reject all by default, script and embed blocking, Google Consent Mode v2 and Microsoft UET, geo-targeting, the cookie scanner (10 pages per scan, monthly), the privacy policy, cookie policy and terms generators in one language, and the consent log kept 30 days. There is no pageview limit, no trial clock and no card. The banner shows a small "Cookie banner by Cookiequiet" link, which Pro removes.
No. No plan has a pageview or banner-view limit, including Free. Pricing is per website, so a traffic spike never moves you to a higher tier or adds an overage. The reasoning is explained in [why pageview pricing is wrong for consent](/blog/why-pageview-pricing-is-wrong-for-consent).
Yes, on every plan including Free. You can show the banner everywhere, only in regulated countries (the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey) or in a custom list of countries. In US states with a privacy law, an opt-out notice with a "Do not sell or share my personal information" link can be shown instead. The law decides where the banner appears, not the price.
Yes, by default. Accept all and Reject all have the same size and weight on the first screen, which is what the CNIL and EDPB guidance ask for, and Customize opens a preferences centre with four categories (necessary, functional, analytics, marketing), per-category toggles and the cookie table, with no pre-ticked optional category. Every label is editable in each language. See [the Reject all button guide](/guides/reject-all-button).
Yes, on every plan. With `data-consent-mode="1"` on the script tag, the six signals (ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization, analytics_storage, functionality_storage, personalization_storage) are set to denied before any Google tag runs and updated on every choice. A `cq_consent` dataLayer event with per-category flags lets Google Tag Manager trigger tags after consent. The setup is in [the Consent Mode v2 guide](/guides/google-consent-mode-v2).
Yes, on every plan. When enabled, Microsoft UET consent follows the visitor's choice, so Microsoft Advertising tags obey the same rule as Google tags: denied until consent for marketing, then granted. It sits next to the Consent Mode setting in the website's configuration.
The scanner crawls your pages (10 per scan on Free, 50 on Pro), reads scripts, iframes, stylesheets, beacons and Set-Cookie headers, and names what it finds from a database of about 80 providers, from Google Analytics 4 and Meta Pixel to Hotjar, Intercom and Stripe; it also detects consent tools already installed and whether Consent Mode is set up. Its limit: it reads HTML without running JavaScript unless the rendered-HTML option is configured, so cookies set purely by scripts are listed from the provider database rather than observed. A free public scan of 5 pages, no account needed, is at [/tools/cookie-scanner](/tools/cookie-scanner).
On Pro, Agency and Lifetime, the AI designer reads your website's colours, fonts and tone, or a written brief, and proposes a theme, layout and wording for the banner. The proposal is validated against the configuration schema and previewed before you apply it, so nothing changes on your site until you say so. It is powered by Claude (Anthropic) and limited to 30 runs per website per month.
Yes. A privacy policy, a cookie policy and terms of use are generated from a questionnaire prefilled by the scan, in English and French, written for the GDPR, the UK GDPR, ePrivacy, the CCPA/CPRA, the LGPD and the Swiss FADP, with the processors table, retention periods, visitor rights, the supervisory authority of your country and the cookie table from the scan. They are hosted at app.cookiequiet.com/p/KEY/privacy (also /cookies and /terms) or copied as Markdown or HTML. They are templates, not legal advice, and every policy page says so.
Every choice is recorded as proof of consent: date, choice, categories, banner version, language, country, a random per-site visitor id, a daily-salted hash of the IP address and the user agent. Records are kept 30 days on Free and 5 years on Pro, and Pro can export them as CSV. Daily counters (shown, accept all, reject all, custom, withdraw) feed a consent-rate chart. See [how long to keep consent records](/guides/how-long-to-keep-consent-records).
Yes, on every plan. A Global Privacy Control signal from the browser is honoured as an opt-out. In US states with a privacy law (California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana and others), the banner can be replaced by an opt-out notice with a "Do not sell or share my personal information" link. The rules are summarised on [the US state privacy laws page](/laws/us-state-privacy-laws).
24: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Turkish. The language is picked from the visitor's browser, and every string is editable per language. Generated policies exist in English and French: Free gives you one language, Pro every language your site uses.
Create the website in the dashboard, paste one script tag before every other script (`<script src="https://cookiequiet.com/cq.js" data-site="KEY" defer>`), mark the scripts that must wait for consent, and run a scan. The tag is about 7 KB compressed and renders in a shadow root, so your CSS cannot break it. The banner takes about five minutes; generating policies and checking each blocked tag takes longer. Platform guides for [WordPress](/platforms/wordpress), [Shopify](/platforms/shopify), [Webflow](/platforms/webflow) and others walk through each step.
Scripts written as `<script type="text/plain" data-cq-category="analytics">` run only after consent for their category, and embeds with `data-cq-src` (YouTube, Maps) load after consent. An auto-blocker also holds scripts and iframes created by JavaScript, such as those injected by tag managers or lazy loaders, from about 80 known trackers. The limit: a tracker hard-coded in the HTML before the Cookiequiet tag, without the marking, runs before it can be stopped, so load Cookiequiet first and mark or move such tags. See [blocking scripts until consent](/guides/block-scripts-until-consent).
Usually, yes. Cookiequiet understands the markup other banners use, including `data-cookiecategory` (CookieYes) and `data-cookieconsent` (Cookiebot), so scripts already marked keep being held until consent. Replace the old snippet with the Cookiequiet tag, run a scan, regenerate the cookie policy, and export the old consent log before cancelling. Step-by-step guides exist for [CookieYes](/guides/switch-from-cookieyes) and [Cookiebot](/guides/switch-from-cookiebot), and the comparisons at [/vs](/vs) cover eight other tools.
No, not yet. Cookiequiet is not a Google-certified consent management platform for the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework, so websites that show Google AdSense, Ad Manager or AdMob ads to visitors in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland need a certified CMP for those ads. Everything else works with Cookiequiet's Consent Mode v2 integration: Google Analytics 4, Google Ads conversion tracking, Meta Pixel, embedded videos, chat widgets. See [the IAB TCF glossary entry](/glossary/iab-tcf).
Consent data is stored in the European Union. The banner sets one cookie, `cq_consent`, valid 6 months by default (configurable), holding the choice and a random visitor id that is specific to your site, so it cannot follow a visitor across websites. For each choice the consent log keeps the date, the choice and categories, the banner version, language, country, that visitor id, a daily-salted hash of the IP address and the user agent, which is what is needed to prove consent. Cookiequiet collects nothing else about your visitors.
Yes. Cancel any time; downgraded websites keep working on the free tier. Your banner stays up and your settings are kept, and the Pro features (AI designer, custom CSS, CSV export, 5-year log retention, extra domains, no branding) stop applying.
Yes. Any payment, monthly, yearly or lifetime, can be refunded within 14 days: write to hello@cookiequiet.com from the account's e-mail address. The terms are on the [refund policy page](/refund-policy).
Yes. Agency is €19 a month or €190 a year for 10 Pro websites under one account, which works out at €1.90 per website per month, with one invoice for all client sites and the option to add another bundle at any time. Every site gets the full Pro feature set, AI designer included. With six sites or fewer, Pro at €3 per website is cheaper; from seven, Agency is.
€79 per website, paid once: everything in Pro, AI designer included, forever, with no renewal and no price increase. It includes future features and is transferable between your websites, so you can move it from a site you close to a new one. It suits sites that will outlive any subscription; a Pro subscription at €29 a year reaches the same amount after about two years and nine months.
By e-mail at hello@cookiequiet.com. Anyone can write; Pro, Agency and Lifetime websites get priority e-mail support. The [guides](/guides), [platform pages](/platforms) and this FAQ cover most setup questions, and the scan report tells you whether Consent Mode is set up and whether another consent tool is still installed.
One domain and its www variant. Pro websites can add staging and country domains. Subdomains with their own banner count as their own website.
Nothing. There is no pageview or banner-view limit on any plan, Free included. The banner never stops working because a month was busy.
Yes. Paid slots belong to your account; the Account page shows which websites use them, and you can delete or add websites freely within the quota.
The free plan is the trial, without a clock. Paid plans can be cancelled any time; the website goes back to Free and keeps working. Refunds within 14 days of a first payment.
Prices are shown without VAT; it is added at checkout according to your country, with an invoice from Stripe.