How to add a Cookies Policy to Wix Website

Adding a Cookies Policy to your Wix website can help you stay compliant with global privacy laws while helping inform your users about your cookie usage.

Whether you're legally required to have a Cookies Policy, or simply wish to have one to enhance your website and boost your transparency, these short, simple steps will help you add your policy to your Wix website and link it to your website's footer.

If you don't yet have a Cookies Policy, check out our Cookies Policy Generator to create your own custom policy in just minutes.

When Should My Wix Website Have a Cookies Policy

Your Wix website should include a Cookies Policy when your site:

• Uses cookies, and
• You want to keep your users very informed about exactly how you use cookies

While you could include a clause in your Privacy Policy that details your use of cookies, this point of information can sometimes get lost in a long policy. At the same time, your cookie usage may be extensive, so including all of this information in your Privacy Policy can make the policy lengthy.

Having and displaying a separate Cookies Policy comes with a number of benefits including the following:

• You can get into a great amount of detail
• You can link to your policy in your website footer and other places for maximum visibility
• As privacy laws change, having a Cookies Policy helps ensure you stay one step ahead of global legal compliance

If you want those benefits for your Wix website and for your users, we recommend you create a Cookies Policy and use these short, simple steps to add it to your site and then link it to your site's footer.

How to Add a Cookies Policy to your Wix Website

Once you have a well-drafted Cookies Policy that you're ready to display, you'll have to add a new page to your Wix site where the text of your policy will go.

Here's how you add a new page to your Wix site and add your Cookies Policy to it.

1. Log in to Wix.
2. In the Wix Dashboard, click on Edit Site:



3. When the home page opens, click on Menus & Pages on the left side of the Editor:



4. In the Site Pages Menu, click on + Add Page at the bottom of the panel:



5. Enter the name for the new page as "Cookies Policy" and click Done:



6. While on the newly created Cookies Policy page, click on the 3 dots to open the page menu and go to Settings:



7. Under the Page Info section, toggle the hide from menu button to be active. Close the Editor window:



8. While you're on the newly created page, click on + Add on the left side of the Editor:



9. When the Add to Site Editor opens, scroll down and choose Embed Code, then click on Embed HTML on the right side:



10. Now you need to add text to your Cookies Policy page.

    If you do not have a Cookies Policy, you can use our Cookies Policy Generator and create it within minutes.

11. Under the Copy your Cookies Policy section, click on Copy this to clipboard:



12. Go back to the Wix Editor and double-click on the HTML box so that the HTML Settings window opens. Then just paste the code and click the Update button:



13. You're done!

Link to Cookies Policy from Wix website footer

Now that you've added a new page for your Cookies Policy, make sure users can access it by putting a link to it in your Wix site's footer. This is the most common place where businesses add important links and legal information, and people know to look here for such things.

Here's how you add a link to your Wix site's footer that links to your Cookies Policy.

1. Log in to Wix.
2. In the Wix Dashboard, click on Edit Site:



3. Scroll down to the footer of the home page and then go to + in order to Add more elements to your footer:



4. When the Add to Site editor opens, click Text, then Themed Text and choose, for example, Paragraph:



5. Drag the text element to the bottom of the page (as close to the footer as it goes) and click Move To Footer:



6. After you place the text box in the footer, double-click the Text box in order to edit the text. Type in "Cookies Policy," select it and click on the link icon of the text editor:



7. When the link opens, choose Web Address:

   

   In order to get the Cookies Policy URL link, go to the TermsFeed Cookies Policy Generator to create the Cookies Policy and get the hosted Cookies Policy URL.

8. In the Link to your Cookies Policy section, click on the Copy button:



9. Go back to the Wix editor and paste the link into the Web Address field:



10. Click Done.

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Summary

Taking just a few minutes to add a Cookies Policy to your Wix website will help increase your site's transparency and legal compliance while also keeping your users informed of your cookie usage.

If you don't have a Cookies Policy ready to add to your Wix website, our Cookies Policy Generator can help you create one. Then, the simple instructions above can help you display it on your Wix website.