# What Flat Consent does

A cookie banner that sets itself up from a check of your site.

Flat Consent puts a small cookie banner on your website, keeps trackers switched off until a visitor agrees, and records every choice. You paste one line into your site, and we set up the rest from a check of your pages.

## In one minute

1. We check your site. A real browser opens your pages as a first-time visitor would and lists every cookie and outside service that loads before anyone agrees.
2. We set up your banner in your colours and font, with wording that names only what your site uses and the right behaviour for visitors from each country.
3. You paste one line into your site's settings, then press **Check my site** and we confirm the banner is working.

## What you get

- A small banner in a corner of the page, in your site's colours and font.
- **Accept all** and **Reject all** buttons that carry the same weight, with the settings behind a text link.
- Trackers, ads and embedded videos held back until a visitor agrees.
- A record of every choice, stored in Europe, without IP addresses.
- A cookie list page your visitors can read.
- The rules for Europe, the UK, the US and everywhere else, applied according to where each visitor is. You don't need to know them yourself.

## Words we use

- **Tracker**: any cookie, script or outside service that records what visitors do. Analytics tools and ad pixels are trackers.
- **Consent**: a visitor saying yes. In Europe and the UK, trackers may only run after consent.
- **Category**: what a cookie is for. We use four: Required, Preferences, Statistics and Advertising. See [Categories](/docs/categories).
- **Where it shows**: what the banner does for visitors from each place. Depending on the law where the visitor is, it asks first, shows an opt-out link or stays out of the way. See [Where the banner shows](/docs/regions).