Free cookie policy generator

A cookie policy tells visitors which cookies and similar technologies your store uses, who sets them, what they are for, how long they last and how to change their choices. Many stores publish it as its own page and link it from the cookie banner and the footer.

If visitors come from the EU or UK, the law asks you to tell them clearly about the cookies you use and to ask before most that are not strictly necessary. California asks the businesses its privacy law covers for an opt-out of selling or sharing when ad cookies collect data, and Quebec, Brazil and Thailand set their own consent rules. Elsewhere it is still the page careful buyers look for.

You answer four short steps: your business, where your customers are, the cookies and services your store uses, and how your banner asks. The policy drafts itself as you answer, with a cookie table built from the services you tick and a section for each region you pick. When it reads right, copy it as text or download it as Markdown or HTML.

Yes. There is no sign-up and no email to give. The policy is put together in your browser as you answer: nothing you type is sent to Tanqory or anyone else, and nothing is saved when you close the page, so copy it as text or download Markdown or HTML before you leave.

No. The banner is where visitors make their choice, and the policy is the page that explains the choice in full. In the EU and UK the banner asks before optional cookies are set, with rejecting as easy as accepting, and links to the policy for the details.

Each service you tick adds the cookies it lists in its own documentation, with the lifetime it states there. Services change their cookies from time to time, so check your store with your browser’s developer tools and add anything else under Other services.

A browser setting that tells every site the visitor opts out of the sale and sharing of their data. California treats it as a valid opt-out request, so a store with ad cookies should switch them off for that browser, and the draft says so when you pick the United States.

No. It is a starting point written in plain words from your answers. Laws and services change and every business is different, so have a lawyer review your policy before you publish it, and again when you add a service that sets cookies.

Most stores also publish a privacy policy, terms of service, a refund policy and a shipping policy. On Tanqory each has its own place in your settings and its own page on your storefront, and our free generators draft the privacy, terms and refund policies the same way as this one.