Generate a cookie policy draft covering essential and analytics cookies.
How to use the Cookie policy generator
- Choose the cookies and tools you use.
- Review the draft.
- Publish it and link it from your cookie notice.
Do you need a banner?
In the EU and UK, non-essential cookies (most analytics and ads) need consent first. Cookieless analytics can avoid the banner.
What the draft contains
A table of the cookies you use with their purpose, type and how long they last. Session and preference cookies are always listed as essential. Ticking analytics adds an analytics row lasting up to 13 months, payments adds a checkout fraud-prevention row, and ads adds marketing pixels lasting up to 90 days. If you only use essential cookies, the policy says you don't set non-essential ones. Otherwise it says they are set only with consent, which can be changed from a cookie settings link in the footer, so make sure that link exists.
Getting it accurate
Open your site in a private window, then check the cookies in your browser's developer tools (Application, then Cookies) and compare the list with the draft. Third-party scripts such as chat widgets, video embeds and A/B testing tools often set cookies you didn't know about. Replace generic names with real ones if you can, and fix durations to match. Update the policy when you add a tool. If you use a consent tool, make sure scripts really wait for consent rather than loading first.