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Get started with Google Consent Mode

Enabling Google Consent Mode is easy with GetTerms’ Consent Management Platform (CMP)! We’ve created a Google Tag Manager template and video guide to help you quickly setup Consent Mode, and get back to business.

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How Consent Mode works with GetTerms

Consent mode begins when a user lands on your website, even before your users make a consent choice with your consent banner. From the moment each user lands on your website, our CMP keeps Google updated with consent state of your users so your Google tags can adjust their behavior accordingly.

Quick and easy setup

We’ve made it as easy as possible to get started with Consent Mode. Just enable it in our dashboard and follow our short video guide!

Manage your cookie consent banner & direct the consent management process.

Whether you're a small business owner or a web developer, GetTerms is simple to use with no technical expertise needed.
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Fast implementation

Consent management is our core business, not yours. That's why we've worked hard to simplify implementation with codeless integrations.

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Technical support

We're here to address any technical challenges you run into and are constantly upgrading our product and documentation to meet Google’s latest standards.

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Consent Mode v2

Strengthen your compliance with the EU user consent policy. Consent Mode V2 allows you to your users Ad User Data and Personalization preferences to Google.

Google Consent Mode is a framework that allows websites to communicate a user’s consent status to Google through a Consent Management Platform (CMP). Once Consent Mode is properly configured, Google Tags and third-party tags that create or read cookies will adjust their behavior based on the user’s consent choices, typically collected via a cookie banner or consent dialog.

This helps websites comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR, which require non-essential tracking cookies to be blocked unless the user has explicitly given consent.

Yes! In fact you can’t use Google Consent Mode without a cookie banner. Google relies on the consent signals from your cookie consent banner or consent management tool, sent via Google Tag Manager, to control how its tags behave.

Google Consent Mode works by communicating a user’s consent states to tags and tools, so they can adjust their behavior in accordance to the users consent preferences and in compliance with privacy laws like the GDPR.

There are three consent states, each set in sequence during a user’s interaction with the site:

  1. The on-page default consent state: The initial consent state set by the site before the user interacts with the consent banner.
  2. On-page updated consent state: The consent state updated by the user’s choices via the consent banner.
  3. Current consent state: The active consent state at the time a specific tag or tool runs. This reflects the most recent user preferences, whether consent has been provided or not.

The current consent state tells Google whether it is allowed to read or write cookies – not as a blanket rule, but individually for each consent type: Advertising cookies, functionality cookies, analytics cookies, etc. This enables more granular consent preferences, allowing users to approve some cookie types while rejecting others. For example, a user might deny consent for advertising cookies (ad_storage) but allow analytics cookies (analytics_storage).

In a Basic Consent Mode setup, tags are configured to require additional consent checks before they can fire. This means that if a user does not consent to data collection:

  • No data is sent – not even the user’s consent status.
  • No cookies are set.
  • Tags remain blocked until the user grants consent for the relevant consent type via the consent banner.

Given the benefits of advanced consent mode, we only recommend this implementation for:

  • Google tags that do not have built-in consent checks.
  • Non-Google third-party tracking scripts as they will not adjust behavior based on the consent state of the user.

If Advanced Consent Mode is implemented, tags will fire without waiting for user consent. For this reason, you should only use advanced consent mode with tags that have built-in consent checks. With advanced consent mode, cookies are not set without consent, and the tool will adapt its behavior based on the user’s consent state, which is communicated through cookieless signals called Consent Mode pings.

The benefit of advanced consent mode is that it enables Google to collect a small amount of deidentified data which can be used for conversion and behavioral modelling. The modelled data is then able to be injected into your reporting tools to fill in the blanks where users denied personal data collection.

Advanced consent mode should only be used for the following products that contain built-in consent checks and adjust behavior based on consent state:

  • Google tag
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Ads
  • Floodlight
  • Conversion Linker

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