Cookie consent

Urmi has a built-in cookie banner. It asks visitors whether analytics and marketing tools may track them, and it makes rejecting as easy as accepting. Urmi remembers the choice and passes it on, so Google tags and other tools can wait for the answer.

Turn on the banner

1. Open the setting

   Go to Urmi → Settings → Cookie consent.

2. Show the banner

   Turn on Show the banner. The other options appear.

3. Adjust the look and text

   Choose the Position, and change the texts if you like (see below).

4. Save

   Click Save changes in the bar at the bottom of the screen.

What visitors can choose

• Accept all allows every category.
• Reject all allows only what is necessary.
• Preferences opens the three categories with a short explanation each, and a Save choices button:

The choice is saved in a cookie called urmi_consent in the visitor's browser. List it in your privacy or cookie policy.

How tracking tools get the answer

Urmi does not add tracking tools to your site. You add them with the plugin or service you prefer, and they follow the visitor's choice in one of two ways:

• Google tags (Google Analytics, Google Ads, Tag Manager) follow it through Google Consent Mode. See below.
• Other tools can read the urmi_consent cookie, or listen for the urmi:consent event (see For developers).

If a visitor turns off a category they had allowed before, the page reloads, because tracking that has already started cannot be stopped halfway.

Use Google Consent Mode

With Google Consent Mode v2 on, Urmi tells Google's tags at the top of every page that ad and analytics storage is denied. When a visitor accepts, it updates that signal:

• Analytics allows analytics storage.
• Marketing allows ad storage, ad user data and ad personalization.

Google's tags then decide themselves what they may store. This works for Google tags added by other plugins or by your theme, so they wait for the visitor's answer without extra setup.

For developers

The choice is announced on the page with the urmi:consent event. It fires when the page loads if the visitor has already chosen, and again each time they save a choice. The event says which categories are allowed:

document.addEventListener('urmi:consent', (event) => {
  if (event.detail.analytics) {
    // Start your analytics tool.
  }
  if (event.detail.marketing) {
    // Start your marketing tool.
  }
});

Add the listener before the page finishes loading, so it does not miss the first event.

Let visitors change their choice

• Turn on Cookie settings button for a small round button in the corner of the page.
• Or add a link anywhere, for example in your footer, with the address #urmi-consent. Clicking it opens the preferences. In the editor, type #urmi-consent into any link field.

Good to know

• Urmi itself adds no tracking. Embeds from other services are a different matter: the Video widget can load YouTube and Vimeo only when played (Load player on click, on by default), and the Google Maps widget can wait for a click too (Load on click). See Video and Google Maps.
• The banner, its texts and its buttons are not a legal review. Check what your local law requires.

Related

• Forms privacy
• Settings overview