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Guides & Resources
3 MIN READ·GuideApr 2026
Cookie Categories Explained: Analytics, Marketing, Essential, Functional (2026)
Under GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, not all cookies are treated the same. The four standard cookie categories — strictly necessary, functional, analytics, and marketing — determine whether you need consent, how your banner must be structured, and what happens legally if a cookie is placed in the wrong bucket. Getting the categories right is the foundation of any lawful cookie consent setup.
Read guide →4 MIN READ·GuideApr 2026
How Long Does Cookie Consent Last? GDPR Renewal Requirements 2026
Cookie consent under GDPR does not have an explicit expiry date written into the regulation — but that does not mean it lasts indefinitely. The EDPB has established a 12-month benchmark for re-presenting consent to returning visitors, and certain changes to your data processing — new third-party processors, changed cookie purposes, new advertising partners — trigger mandatory re-consent regardless of when the last consent was collected. Understanding what resets the clock is as important as understanding how long it runs.
Read guide →5 MIN READ·GuideApr 2026
Cookie Consent for SaaS and B2B Websites: What's Different? (2026)
The most common compliance myth in the B2B software world is that GDPR cookie consent does not apply to business-to-business websites because their visitors are "business contacts, not consumers." This is incorrect. GDPR protects natural persons — individual human beings — regardless of whether they are visiting a website in a personal or professional capacity. A VP of Engineering browsing your pricing page is a data subject under GDPR, whether they are doing so for personal reasons or as part of their job. What is different for SaaS and B2B sites is not whether consent is required, but which tools require it and how to implement it without destroying your conversion funnel.
Read guide →4 MIN READ·GuideApr 2026
Best GDPR Cookie Consent Plugins for WordPress 2026 — Compared
WordPress powers over 40% of the web, and the majority of WordPress sites are still running cookie setups that breach GDPR — often because they have installed a consent plugin but misconfigured it, or because they are loading Google Analytics through a method that bypasses the consent gate entirely. This guide compares the five most widely used GDPR cookie consent plugins for WordPress in 2026 and explains the integration mistakes that undermine even the best plugins.
Read guide →3 MIN READ·GuideApr 2026
Cookie Policy Template: What It Must Include Under GDPR (2026)
A privacy policy and a cookie policy are two different documents serving two different legal purposes — and many websites confuse them or merge them in ways that leave both incomplete. Under GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, your cookie policy must do something very specific: give users enough information about each cookie to make a genuinely informed decision before accepting or rejecting it. That requires naming cookies individually, not just categorising them.
Read guide →3 MIN READ·ComparisonJul 2026
CookieFirst for WordPress: Setup, Pricing, and Whether It's Right for You (2026)
CookieFirst is one of the consent management platforms WordPress site owners keep running into while shopping for a GDPR cookie banner, alongside the more commonly compared CookieYes and Complianz. This guide covers what its WordPress plugin actually does, where its free tier stops, and when it's the right choice instead of the bigger names.
Read guide →3 MIN READ·GuideMar 2026
GDPR Cookie Consent Requirements for Websites 2026
Cookie consent is one of the most enforced areas of GDPR, with fines exceeding €20 million handed to household names for getting it wrong. Yet the majority of websites still use banners that are technically illegal — pre-ticked boxes, no reject button, or consent bundled with terms of service. This guide tells you exactly what the law requires, what it prohibits, and what your banner must say to be compliant in 2026.
Read guide →4 MIN READ·GuideApr 2026
GDPR Reject Button Requirements: What the Law Actually Says (2026)
The GDPR does not use the phrase "reject button," but the requirement for one is beyond legal doubt. Supervisory authorities across the EU — led by France's CNIL — have issued hundreds of millions of euros in fines specifically for making cookie rejection harder or less visible than acceptance. If your banner has a large green "Accept All" button and a small grey "Manage Preferences" link, you are not compliant, and you have not been since 2022.
Read guide →4 MIN READ·GuideApr 2026
IAB TCF 2.2 Explained: Do You Need a TCF Cookie Banner? (2026)
If you have shopped for a consent management platform, you have almost certainly encountered the letters "TCF" — the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework. Vendors describe it as the industry standard for cookie consent. What they often omit is that the Belgian data protection authority ruled the framework itself non-compliant with GDPR in 2022, and that most small and medium websites have no need for it whatsoever. Understanding what TCF is — and who actually needs it — can save you from paying for complexity you do not require.
Read guide →3 MIN READ·GuideApr 2026
Matomo Cookie Consent: Do You Need a Banner, or Does Cookieless Mode Skip It? (2026)
Google Analytics 4 requires a cookie consent banner before it can fire — that is not optional, and it is not something a privacy policy alone can fix. Matomo, configured correctly on your own server, can operate without setting any cookies at all, which means it falls outside the ePrivacy Directive's consent requirement entirely. Understanding why the two tools sit in different legal categories is the key to choosing the right one for your site.
Read guide →4 MIN READ·GuideApr 2026
Facebook Pixel, HubSpot & Intercom: Managing Third-Party Cookie Consent (2026)
Third-party scripts are the single biggest source of inadvertent GDPR violations on commercial websites. Unlike your own code, they load external JavaScript that sets cookies, calls home to US servers, and creates joint controller relationships — all automatically, the moment the page loads. Blocking them until consent is given is not a technical nicety; it is a legal requirement, and enforcement actions have confirmed that "we didn't know the script did that" is not a defence.
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