Consent on Click

What it is

Lets you treat a click anywhere outside the banner as a positive consent—the same as pressing the banner’s Save button (default label “Save my preferences”): it records the level selected at that moment, which is your Default Consent Level unless the visitor changed it.

Where: In the Admin Portal, open Configuration → Behavior. On a WordPress site that is not connected to the portal (Banner Only), use Cookie Consent tab → Consent Behavior.

Classic engine only. The New engine ignores this setting, so the Admin Portal does not show it on a site using the New engine. Your saved value is kept and applies again if you switch back to Classic.

What happens when enabled

• A first click on the page outside the banner records consent at the current default Access Level and Purposes shown on load.
• Cookie Compliance writes the consent cookie, updates autoblocking (unblocks allowed tags), and sends signals to integrations (Google/Microsoft/Facebook consent modes).

Why/when to use it

• In opt-out jurisdictions (e.g., many U.S. state laws like CCPA/CPRA), capturing consent on outside click can reduce friction and maintain analytics continuity.
• In opt-in jurisdictions (e.g., EU/EEA/UK under GDPR + ePrivacy), regulators expect an explicit affirmative action (e.g., pressing a button). An outside-banner click is not an affirmative choice.

Compliance note

Consent on Click must be disabled for GDPR, UK PECR, LGPD, and POPIA compliance — treating a click outside the banner as consent does not meet the requirement for an explicit, affirmative choice. It is only appropriate in opt-out jurisdictions where consent is not legally required.