Frequently asked questions
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Questions about Consent Studio
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What is Consent Studio?
A consent management platform built in the Netherlands by Vallonic. It combines three things that are usually sold separately: a consent banner, a client-side tag manager that holds tags to the visitor’s answer, and a weekly scan that reports anything firing without permission.
What does it cost?
Ten euro a month per domain, with no limit on pages and no billing per visitor, inside a fair use range of 500,000 sessions a month. All three products are on every plan. Agencies with many domains have a partner rate and organisations beyond the fair use range have an Enterprise plan.
Is there a free trial?
Seven days, with no card required. That is long enough to install it, run the first scan and see what it finds, which is the part most people are actually evaluating.
Do you charge per page or per visitor?
Neither. A ten-page site and a thousand-page site pay the same, and a good month costs what a quiet one costs. This is the difference customers mention most often unprompted, because per-page pricing makes an archive expensive to keep online and per-visitor pricing charges you for a successful campaign.
What is the Full Consent Stack?
The three products together: the Web CMP collects the answer, Launcher makes every tag obey it, and Monitoring keeps checking that nothing has changed. They are on every plan rather than sold as tiers, because a banner with nothing enforcing it is the most common way a site is non-compliant while believing otherwise.
Where is our data stored?
In Amsterdam, on infrastructure owned and operated by Scaleway, a French company. Ownership matters more than location: Scaleway is independently French rather than a European subsidiary of a US parent, so neither they nor we fall under the US CLOUD Act.
Do you transfer data to the United States?
No. Consent records stay on European infrastructure, so the EU-US Data Privacy Framework is not part of the answer we give in a data processing agreement. That is one dependency fewer to reassess if the adequacy decision is ever annulled.
What is in a consent record, and what is not?
What the visitor chose, when, and against which version of the banner text. Not who they were: the record evidences a choice without building a profile of the person who made it, because a consent log that identifies visitors is a pile of personal data collected to prove you are careful with personal data.
Can we export our consent records?
Yes, from the dashboard, without asking us. That matters more than it sounds, because if answering a data subject request means opening a support ticket with your vendor, the clock is running while you wait. Enterprise customers can have records delivered to their own systems.
How do I install it?
Paste the personalised snippet the dashboard generates for your domain, or install the plugin for your platform. We have pages for the thirteen platforms we support most closely, and the help centre covers every route step by step with screenshots.
Which platforms and tools does it work with?
Google Consent Mode v2, Google Tag Manager, Microsoft UET and Clarity, Matomo and Piwik PRO, and the common site platforms including WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, Magento and Shopware. Anything not on that list still works through the tag manager.
Is the banner accessible?
Yes, on every plan. Keyboard operation, focus order, contrast and screen reader labelling are correct by default, and on the entry plan the accessibility controls are disabled rather than removed so the banner falls back to compliant settings. You cannot ship an inaccessible banner by forgetting a checkbox.
How many languages does it support?
Translations ship for every language we support, and the banner chooses from the ones you activated based on the visitor rather than on your site default. Every string is editable, and edits are versioned with the rest of the banner text so a consent record still points at what was actually on screen.
How does the scan work?
It crawls your site weekly, starting by itself once a domain is registered, and reports cookies set before consent and third party calls leaving the site. The report leads with what changed since last week rather than with a list of everything, because a list of ninety cookies is unreadable and three new ones is actionable.
Can I manage several websites from one account?
Yes, and each domain is priced separately. Once you are past about ten, the Partner Programme or an Enterprise agreement makes more sense than multiplying a single-domain price, which is precisely why both exist.
What support do we get?
Support is not a paid tier. Write to us and a person replies within one working day, and the person replying works on the product rather than reading from a script. Several customers say this is why they moved to us.
Who is behind Consent Studio?
Vallonic B.V., a software studio in Tilburg in the Netherlands. We built and maintained websites and applications for other organisations for years before building this, which is where the opinions about what a consent platform should not be came from.
Are you a Google certified CMP?
Yes, first certified at Silver tier in 2024, and Gold since 2026. The certification covers integration with Consent Mode and Google Tag Manager, and it is what Google requires of advertisers serving traffic from the EEA, the UK and Switzerland.
Get Started with the Full Consent Stack
Everything you need in one bundle. Consent Studio provides you with a consent banner, scanner and client-side tag manager that guarantees no data ever gets transferred overseas.
Read the documentation
Our help center walks through every integration, plugin and template step by step, with screenshots. It is written and kept current by the people who build Consent Studio.
