Cookie banner documentation
Overview and user experience
Welcome to Silktide’s cookie banner. A lightweight, customizable, and 100% free forever solution designed to keep your website compliant without sacrificing style or speed.
How the banner functions
The first time someone visits your website, without cookies accepted, they’ll see the cookie banner popup.
The banner popup explains that users can consent (or not) to tracking cookies on your website.
After making their initial choice of accepting/rejecting cookies from either here (or separately, from the preference modal), the user will not see this banner again.
The banner position can be customized in the installation wizard.
Cookie banner preferences
Cookies are grouped by their function. If you’re familiar with Google Consent V2, you’ll know that cookies can be categorized into Essential, Functional, Analytics, Advertising and others. You’ll see later that you can name these however you like in the banner itself, but it’s usually good practice to be standard in your approach.
The user can choose to accept or, some, or none of these. They do this when the cookie banner first pops up, or later on the Preferences screen.
- Cookies can be grouped into any number of cookie types, each with their own accept/reject option.
- Cookie types can be set to required which prevents them from being turned off. This should only be used for necessary cookies that are required for the site to function properly.
- Cookie types can have a default value set.
As well as the toggle, the user is presented with two buttons:
- Accept All – accepts all cookies
- Reject non-essential – rejects all cookie types that aren’t set to required.
Cookie banner icon
The cookie icon button toggles the preference popup modal. This then allows the users to update any previously set cookie type options.
The position (bottom left, bottom right) can be customized in the installation wizard.
