Cookie declaration table
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Cookie declaration table
The cookie declaration is the human-readable list of every cookie your site sets, its purpose, the provider that sets it, and how long it lives — the artifact most privacy regulations expect you to publish (GDPR Art. 13, and effectively required by most DPAs' cookie-banner guidance). Cookie Munch generates and keeps it current for you from scanner results.
Viewing the table
Dashboard → Cookies shows every cookie detected for the active property, grouped into a badge-colored category and sortable/filterable by:
Column | Description |
|---|---|
Cookie | The exact cookie name |
Category | Necessary / Preferences / Statistics / Marketing / Unclassified |
Provider | The company or service that sets the cookie (e.g. Google Analytics) |
Purpose | A plain-language description of what the cookie does |
Expiry | How long the cookie persists (e.g. "2 years", "session") |
Use the search box to find a cookie by name, domain, provider, or purpose, and the category/provider dropdowns to narrow the list. A Scanned on badge shows when the underlying snapshot was last refreshed.
Publishing it on your site
The declaration is also available as a drop-in embeddable widget — no dashboard access required for whoever maintains your privacy policy page:
<script src="https://YOUR-CMP-DOMAIN/cookie-declaration.js" data-cbid="YOUR_SITE_ID"></script>Drop that tag anywhere in your privacy policy or cookie policy page. It:
Finds its own
<script>tag and readsdata-cbid.Fetches the live
/api/v1/:cbid/cookiesfeed for that site.Renders a self-contained HTML table, grouped by category, with a "Last updated" timestamp — no CSS or JS dependencies required from the host page.
Note: The embed always reflects the current snapshot. There's nothing to re-publish when cookies change — the widget updates itself on the visitor's next page load.
Keeping it accurate
The declaration is only as good as the underlying scan. If you add a new analytics/marketing script to your site:
Run a manual scan (Cookies → Scan now), or wait for the next scheduled crawl.
Review any cookies that land in Unclassified and confirm their category — unmatched cookies default to Unclassified until a human (or a future scanner-database update) classifies them.
See also: Cookie scanner · REST consent for the underlying /api/v1/:cbid/cookies feed.