Visitor Consent: Cookie Consent Banner Implementation with Google Tag Manager

Legal Note: This is not legal advice, but rather guidelines based on the current regulatory activity in the European Union and NextRoll’s services. The guidelines may change over time to reflect updated best practices. You should consult with your own counsel, privacy professionals and/or internal resources to determine a comprehensive and appropriate cookie consent solution for your business and your marketing activities.

 

  • Using Google Tag Manager to help implement your Cookie Consent Banner simplifies the adoption of the Cookie Law requirements.

  • You can use this solution for all analytics tools, but not for AdSense banners, YouTube videos, or social buttons or widgets of any kind.

  • Please note this is not legal advice and we recommend you check with your legal team prior to implementing this solution.
  • This solution applies to ONLY the vendors in the IAB EU TCFv2 Global Vendor List 

The key idea of the integration is that NextRoll pushes GDPR consent information into Google Tag Manager (GTM) as variables of the data layer. You should then configure GTM to only fire tags after consent has been collected for every vendor via the NextRoll Cookie Consent Banner

All the triggers, variables, and events are packaged into a container JSON file that customers can use to import (instead of manual configuration), facilitating an easy one-time setup process in Google Tag Manager. 

 

Variables 

NextRoll pushes variables to the Google Tag Manager dataLayer to allow you to control when tags are loaded and to share the consent information with TCFv2.0 IAB vendors.

Below are the variables that NextRoll pushes:

Variable 

Type

Description 

nextrollVendorsConsent 

Vendor/Partner

List of vendors/partners the consumer has consented to. Wrapped by a comma. Takes into account the required purposes defined in TCFv2.0

nextrollVendorsConsentUnknown

Vendor/Partner

The list of vendors/partners the consumer did not consent to or is unknown.

nextrollVendorsConsentDenied

Vendor/Partner

The list of vendors/partners the consumer denied consent.

nextrollVendorsRawConsent

Vendor/Partner

List of vendors/partners separated by comma the consumer gave the consent to but does not take into account the purposes of each vendor/partner. 

nextrollVendorsRawConsentUnknown

Vendor/Partner

The list of vendors/partners wrapped by comma the consumer did not consent to or unknown and does not take into account the purposes of each vendor/partner.

nextrollVendorsRawConsentDenied

Vendor/Partner

The list of vendors/partners wrapped by comma the consumer denied consent. It does not take into account the purposes of each vendor/partner. 

nextrollPurposesConsent

Purposes

List of comma-wrapped purposes the consumer gave consent to.

nextrollPurposesConsentUnknown

Purposes

List of comma-wrapped purposes the consumer consent is unknown.

nextrollPurposesConsentDenied

Purposes

List of comma-wrapped purposes the consumer denied consent.

nextrollgdpr

GDPR

This is to determine if GDPR conditions apply to the consumer. Ex: 0 (Doesn’t apply) and 1 (applies).

nextrolliab

IAB

IAB consent string with the purposes and consent information of each vendor and purpose. 

 

 

Vendor IDs 

Here are the vendor/partner ID notations that can be reported in the data layer as prefixes. 

Vendor Variable 

Description

tcf

For the vendors in IAB TCFv2.0 

c

For vendors that are not part of the IAB TCFv2 framework 

 

 

Events 

You have an option to create a list of events that decides when to load a particular vendor/partner tag on Google Tag Manager. All the Variables listed above can be called with every event listed below. Learn more about events in GTM.

Event

Description 

Examples

nextroll-consent

This event is pushed to GTM when the page first loads (& subsequent page loads) and NextRoll cookie consent tool appears on the webpage.

Suits best for the vendors/partners that require consent.

nextroll-ready

This event is pushed to GTM to fire the tags only once on the page. The consent status is unknown at this point

Suits best for the vendors/partners that do not require consent.

nextroll-consent-modified

This event is pushed to GTM to whenever the consent status changes 

Suits for the vendors/partners that require consent and overriding the consent changes.

 

🚨  At this time, NextRoll cannot support custom events.

 

We have developed a Container JSON to simplify the setup process in Google Tag Manager. Here are the instructions to configure the Container JSON in Google Tag Manager.

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