Set up a site aimed at children · Docs

Written for Cookie Rocks 2.9.14, checked on 5 November 2026. The current version is 2.11.2: some details may have changed.

This guide is for sites made for children: games, schools, clubs, children’s activities. On such a site, advertising and profiling must stay off, and content from other sites, such as a video, should load only with an adult’s consent.

You need: Cookie Rocks Audit (free) to see which tools your pages load. Cookie Rocks Pro for a banner set up for children.

See what your pages load

Open Cookie Rocks, then Cookies, and click Scan my pages.
In the table, read the Category of each tool. Tools in Marketing or Statistics, apart from videos, maps and social media posts, have no place on a site for children: remove them from the site.
With the Audit alone, look in the settings of your cookie plugin for an option for sites aimed at children.

Set it up with Cookie Rocks Pro

With Cookie Rocks Pro

Open Consent. Under Children, tick This site is aimed at children, then click Save Changes. Turning it on or off asks every visitor again.
Open your site in a private window. The banner has no marketing or statistics category. Advertising, profiling and consent-based statistics stay off for every visitor, even after Accept all. The site works as usual.
Open a page with a video, a map or a social media post. It waits behind its button, such as Load the video. A click first asks: “This content comes from another service, which may use cookies. Choose OK only if you are a parent or guardian and you allow it.” OK loads it. Cancel keeps it held.
Open your cookie policy. It has a Children section: what the site uses, and the age from which a child can consent alone under European and UK data protection law.
Open the Overview. If advertising or statistics tools are still on your pages, a point names them: Cookie Rocks keeps them off, but remove them from the site. See the details opens the table.

If your site is aimed at children under 13 in the United States… a click is not the verifiable parental consent the COPPA asks for. Link to the video or the map instead of embedding it.

Tip. Cookie Rocks cannot check a visitor’s age or a parent’s identity. It cannot stop tools that set cookies from your server either. Keep the list of tools short, and check it after each new plugin with Scan my pages.

More detail: Consent and Hold YouTube, Vimeo and Google Maps until consent.

Next step: Get a cookie policy that writes itself

See also: Cookie Rocks for websites for children, what changes for this kind of site.

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