My Agile Privacy® Options Guide

My Agile Privacy^® offers a wide range of customization options, both visual and functional, all easily managed from the "My Agile Privacy^®" menu in your WordPress admin panel. This guide is an overview of every section of the settings page: each section includes a link to its dedicated in-depth guide.

Cookie Banner

Here you customize the appearance and behaviour of the banner:

• Layout and position: choose among 4 banner sizes (Big and Branded, Big, Wide, Boxed) and the vertical position (Top, Center, Bottom); with the Big and Boxed sizes you can also set the horizontal position. The banner can float detached from the page edges or stick to them.
• Style: shadow, border radius, entrance animation (slide or fade), banner title (optional), font size and line height. You can start from a ready-made color preset or pick individual colors for background, text and heading.
• Buttons: display order of Accept, Reject and Customize, button icons, text and background colors for each button. Button texts — like the banner title and message — are editable from the “Texts and Translations” section.
• Notification Bar: shows a bar listing the content blocked on the current page until consent is given. You can display it even before any consent choice and set it to close automatically after a timeout.
• Blocked Content Widget: when content is blocked pending consent (e.g. Google Maps), a customizable placeholder widget is displayed instead: here you set its text and background colors.

Learn more: How to customise the cookie banner

License

This section shows your license status, the field to enter your license code, and the date of the last cookie sync. If your license is managed by a reseller, their details are also displayed here.
Learn more: Guide to using the private area

Identity

Here you enter the data controller’s information — company name / site holder, address, VAT ID, email — automatically used in the Personal Data and Cookie Policies. If you have a DPO (Data Protection Officer), enable the dedicated option and fill in their details: email, name or company name, address.

Learn more: Identity and DPO in the Policy Assistant guide

Policies and Regulations

Set the Cookie Policy and Personal Data Policy page references. For each policy you can choose between a direct URL or an internal WordPress page, display the text via shortcode, and decide whether to show the policy link directly in the banner.

The Active regulations box lists the regulations currently active on your site (GDPR, the Swiss nLPD/nFADP, the Californian CCPA/CPRA, and more). Regulations are enabled and configured through the Policy Assistant: the guided wizard that generates your policies based on your audience’s geographic area and the selected regulations.
Learn more: Policy Assistant guide

Consent

Control everything related to how user consent is given and managed.

Google Consent Mode v2

Enable it with one click, choosing the native implementation (via My Agile Privacy^®) or Google Tag Manager. With the native implementation you can set the individual consent states sent to Google (Ad Storage, Ad User Data, Ad Personalization, Analytics Storage — all “denied” by default) and enable Url Passthrough. Advanced Consent Mode is the default behaviour; you can switch to the basic mode with the “Disable Advanced Consent Mode” option. If you don’t use any Google product, the “Consent Mode v2 Ignore” option hides these settings and stops the related reminders.

If the plugin detects that Google Tag Manager loads before the consent management system, this box also shows the Google Tag Gateway detection, with an option to disable detection and notifications.
Learn more: Consent Mode v2 guide · Google Tag Gateway and consent

Microsoft UET Consent Mode

If you use Microsoft Advertising (UET), enable its Consent Mode and set the default Ad Storage state (recommended: denied).
Learn more: How to implement Microsoft Consent Mode

Clarity Consent Mode

If you use Microsoft Clarity, enable its Consent Mode and set the default Ad Storage and Analytics Storage states.
Learn more: How to implement Clarity Consent Mode

IAB Transparency and Consent Framework

Enable the IAB TCF only if you use advertising platforms such as Google AdSense, Ad Manager or AdMob. With IAB enabled, the Advertiser Consent Mode option is also available (recommended: enabled): it tells advertising vendors that the site uses Google Consent Mode v2 alongside the IAB TCF.
Learn more: How to activate the IAB TCF with My Agile Privacy®

Consent Revisit Widget

This floating element (bottom right by default) reopens the banner so visitors can review or change their preferences. You can move it to the left, center or right, choose its style (text and logo, text only, or logo only), edit its text and show a direct link to the Cookie Policy. You can also disable it, but giving users a way to revisit their consent is always mandatory: in that case add the Consent shortcode (for example, in the footer). If the widget is disabled and the shortcode is not present, the widget is displayed anyway to ensure compliance.

Learn more: Customising the revisit widget

Resetting Consents

You can reset all collected consents: every user will see the banner again and must set their preferences anew. Useful, for example, when new cookies or tools are added to the site.

Cookie Shield

Manage automatic detection and blocking of cookies and third-party software.

• Modes of operation: in “Learning” mode (enabled by default on installation) Cookie Shield detects and blocks cookies in real time while you browse the site. When you are done, select “Live” to activate the actual protection; if you stay in Learning, the switch to Live happens automatically after 7 days.
  
• Compatibility mode: if some cookies are not detected (possibly due to theme or older plugin integration), enable this mode. For the toughest cases there is also “Legacy mode”; before changing the developer settings (hook type, scanner priority), contact support.
  
• Video privacy: choose how YouTube and Vimeo embeds are handled before consent. With “Anonymize video embeds” (default) videos stay visible but are loaded in privacy mode (e.g. via youtube-nocookie); with “Block with notice” the video is replaced by a placeholder that reopens the consent banner. When blocking is not possible, anonymized embedding is applied. With anonymization enabled, the “Enforce Youtube Privacy” option is also available.
• Google ReCaptcha and Google Maps: their blocking is handled automatically by Cookie Shield, with no options to configure. The appearance of blocked content (notification bar and placeholder widget) is customised from the “Cookie Banner” section.

Learn more: Cookie Shield guide

Advanced Settings

Manage common behaviors:

• Automatic plugin updates (recommended: keep enabled, to always stay compliant)
• Cookie metadata Sync: allows automatic updates of the settings related to the preemptive blocking of cookies, for greater compliance in case of regulatory adjustments
• Language: default language for policies, banner and content. If a multilingual plugin is active on the site, this option is replaced by the Fallback language, used when a translation is not available
• Custom CSS for advanced appearance changes (overrides the banner settings); the “enable wrapping” option adds a helper class for easier style targeting

From here you can also run a manual sync with the server to update Cookies and Policies (usually done automatically), or perform a complete reset of the plugin settings.
Learn more: Configuring My Agile Privacy for multilingual websites · Custom CSS and wrappers