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Change a cookie category

Learn how to change the existing cookie category.

Updated over 3 weeks ago

You may need to move cookies from one category to another in some cases. For example, when you have a marketing cookie but you want to change it to a functional one.

In this article, we'll show you how to change the existing cookie category.

Before you start

Here are some important things to keep in mind before you start:

  • To reach GDPR compliance, we recommend setting a category for all your cookies and making this a routine part of your website maintenance.

  • In Cookie Information, there are five default cookie categories: necessary, functional, statistical, marketing, and unclassified.

Change a cookie category

To change a cookie category, follow these steps:

1. Log in to Cookie Information.

2. Go to Consent solutions.

3. Find the consent solution you want to change a cookie category.

4. Navigate to Cookie management.

5. Use Search to find the cookie in the list.

Cookie management in Cookie Information

Note:

You'll see custom cookies marked with a special icon in the list:

And you’ll see the scanner-detected cookies market with a special icon:

You can filter cookies by cookie type (custom or scanner-detected) or cookie category (necessary, functional, statistical, marketing, and unclassified).

6. Click the three-dot icon next to the cookie.

7. Click Edit.

Edit a custom cookie in Cookie Information

6. In Basic information, click Cookie category.

7. Choose the category from the dropdown list.

Choose the cookie category in Cookie Information

Note: You can’t set up the unclassified cookie category. This one is used only when our scanner finds a cookie that isn’t in our database.

9. Done.

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