Publishing your cookie list for US privacy laws (CCPA, CPRA) with screenshots

UTM attribution overview

If your visitors are in the US, you generally do not need a cookie banner. What US privacy laws such as California's CCPA and CPRA, plus Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut and Utah, do require of the businesses they cover is that you disclose what you collect. Publishing the list of cookies this plugin sets is the simplest way to cover that, and it is good practice whether or not those laws apply to you.

HandL UTM Grabber builds that list for you and keeps it up to date.

This is not legal advice. These laws generally apply above certain revenue and volume thresholds.

1. Open UTM > GDPR and find the Cookie Declaration card

You will see a live table of every cookie the plugin sets on your site, with a plain English purpose, a category and how long each one lasts.

2. Publish it to your privacy policy

Click Publish your cookie list, confirm, and a Cookies section is added to the privacy policy page set in Settings > Privacy. Clicking again never duplicates it.

If your site has no privacy policy page yet, the button creates one as a draft using WordPress's own suggested policy text plus your cookie list, so you can review it before it goes live. Nothing is ever published for you.

Your visitors then see the list on the page itself:

Or place it anywhere yourself

Copy the shortcode and paste it into any page or post:

[handl_cookie_declaration]

To show only one category:

[handl_cookie_declaration category="marketing"]

The table is plain HTML with no styles of its own, so it inherits your theme's look.

Page builders: if your privacy page is built with Elementor or a similar builder, the one click button cannot edit it. Copy the shortcode and drop it into a Shortcode widget instead.

It updates itself

The list is generated fresh every time the page loads, so it never goes stale:

• Add a custom parameter on the Custom Fields tab and it appears in the list right away
• Change your cookie duration and every row updates
• Turn on session cookies and every duration reads "Session"
• Turn the consent banner on and its own cookies are listed too

You never have to re-publish anything.

WordPress Privacy Policy Guide

HandL also adds a suggested section to Settings > Privacy > Policy Guide, which you can copy into your policy if you prefer to write the page yourself.

Publishing a cookie list covers disclosure, which is one requirement among several. It does not by itself make a site compliant.