What Is Cookie Policy Generator?

Cookie Policy Generator creates a compliant cookie consent policy for your website. It covers the types of cookies you use (essential, analytics, advertising), their purposes, duration, and how visitors can manage or opt out — helping you meet GDPR, CCPA, and ePrivacy Directive requirements.

How to Use This Tool

Answer a series of questions about your website: what cookies you use, whether you run analytics or ads, if you share data with third parties, and your contact information. The tool generates a formatted cookie policy you can copy or download. Everything runs in your browser — your answers are never stored on a server.

Why Use Cookie Policy Generator?

Hiring a lawyer to draft a cookie policy costs hundreds of dollars, and generic templates often miss jurisdiction-specific requirements. This tool asks the right questions and produces a tailored policy in minutes. It’s free, requires no account, and keeps your business details private. For a detailed walkthrough, see our step-by-step guide.

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What a Cookie Policy Must Contain in 2026

A cookie policy that holds up under regulatory review covers four areas. First, an inventory of every cookie set on the page broken into categories — strictly necessary, functional, analytics, and advertising — with the third-party vendors named for each non-essential cookie. Second, the lawful basis for each category, which under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive is consent for all non-essential cookies and legitimate interest for the strictly-necessary tier. Third, the duration of each cookie (session, persistent with retention period in days, or until-revoked) and the data each one records. Fourth, the user controls — how visitors withdraw consent, how they reach the consent manager from any page, how they object to specific vendors, and which third-party opt-out registries they can use such as the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance.

The generator structures the output in that order because that is the order most data-protection authorities organize their guidance in. The output also includes the named contact for data-protection inquiries and the EU representative or UK representative where the site reaches users in those jurisdictions, both of which are required separately under GDPR Article 27 and UK GDPR Article 27.

Which Laws Apply to Your Site

The simplest rule of thumb is that the strictest applicable law sets the floor. If your site is visited by users in the EU, EEA, or UK, the GDPR-plus-ePrivacy framework applies and consent for non-essential cookies is required before the cookies are set. If your site reaches California residents, the CCPA as amended by the CPRA gives users a right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, and most cookie-driven advertising counts as sharing under the broad CPRA definition. The fifteen-plus other US state privacy statutes (Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Iowa, Tennessee, Indiana, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maryland, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Kentucky as of January 2026) layer in their own opt-out and notice rules with varying thresholds and effective dates.

In practice, most operators write one cookie policy that satisfies the EU and UK floor, then add a CCPA/CPRA notice-at-collection link with the Global Privacy Control honored at the browser level. That structure is what this generator produces by default. It does not eliminate the need for a consent management platform on the page itself — the policy text is the disclosure, but the consent capture, the granular opt-out per category, and the audit log of consent receipts have to come from a real CMP integration.