Cookie Policy Generator

What the Cookie Policy Generator Does

The Cookie Policy Generator turns a few details about your website into a complete, ready to publish cookie policy. Enter your website name, URL, company name, and contact email, tick the cookie categories your site uses, and select any third-party services you have installed. The tool assembles the policy in real time, so you can copy it or download it as a text file the moment it looks right.

A cookie policy is the page that tells visitors what cookies your site stores on their devices, why those cookies exist, and how they can control or delete them. Under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, sites that serve visitors in the European Union must disclose cookie use and, for non-essential cookies, obtain consent before setting them. Even outside the EU, a clear cookie policy builds trust and answers the question every privacy-conscious visitor eventually asks: what is this site tracking?

How to Use the Generator

1. Enter your website name, URL, company or owner name, and a contact email.
2. Tick every cookie category your site actually uses, from strictly necessary to advertising.
3. Select the third-party services that set cookies on your pages, such as analytics or payment providers.
4. Review the generated policy on the right, then copy it or download it as a text file.
5. Publish the policy on your site and link it from your footer and any cookie consent banner.

The Cookie Categories Explained

• Strictly necessary: required for core functions such as security, sign-in, and remembering form entries. These do not need consent in most jurisdictions because the site cannot work without them.
• Functional / preferences: remember choices such as language, region, or layout. They improve the experience but are not essential.
• Performance / analytics: measure how visitors use the site, which pages are popular, and where people drop off. Analytics cookies are among the most commonly declared.
• Targeting / advertising: build interest profiles and support remarketing across other sites. These almost always require explicit consent.
• Social media: set by embedded share buttons, videos, or feeds from platforms such as Facebook, X, or LinkedIn.

What Belongs in a Cookie Policy

A complete cookie policy answers four questions. What are cookies, and what technologies does the policy cover? Which cookies does this specific site use, grouped by purpose? Who else sets cookies on the site, such as analytics providers or ad networks? And how can a visitor change their mind, whether by updating consent choices or clearing cookies in the browser? This generator covers all four, including a dedicated third-party services section when you select providers such as Google Analytics, Stripe, or Cloudflare.

Keep the policy in sync with reality. If you install a new analytics tool or remove an ad network, update the policy the same day. Regulators treat an inaccurate cookie policy as worse than a brief one, since it misleads visitors about what is happening on their devices.

Cookies, Consent, and the GDPR

Consent for non-essential cookies must be freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous. In practice that means a banner or preference center where visitors actively opt in per category, not a notice that assumes agreement. Visitors must be able to refuse just as easily as they accept, and they must be able to withdraw consent later. The policy you generate here works alongside a consent tool: the banner collects the choice, and the policy explains what each category does.

Strictly necessary cookies are the usual exception and can be set without consent, because blocking them would break basic functionality. Everything else, including most analytics setups, needs an opt-in under the GDPR. If you also restrict scripts with a Content Security Policy Generator, keep the third-party hosts you allow there aligned with the services you list in this policy, so the two lists tell the same story.

Publishing Checklist

• Publish the policy at a stable URL such as /cookie-policy.
• Link it from the site footer and from your consent banner or preference center.
• List the policy in your sitemap and keep the generator output somewhere you can edit it later.
• Revisit it when you add or remove a tool, pixel, or plugin.
• Pair it with a Privacy Policy Generator so visitors can see both how data is collected and how cookies fit in.

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