How To Use The Avada Privacy & Consent Bar

Last Update: July 8, 2026

The Privacy & Consent Bar is one part of the Avada Privacy Tools, which help you facilitate GDPR compliance. For a full understanding of the Privacy options in Avada, see the Privacy doc category. But in this document, we are looking solely at the Avada Privacy & Consent Bar.

This Avada Privacy & Consent Bar is highly configurable, giving you everything that you need to keep your website visitors informed of any cookies, third part embeds and/or custom implementations that may affect their data privacy. It can act as a simple notification bar, or with the Privacy Bar Settings turned on, you can configure the Privacy & Consent Bar in the same way you can with the Privacy & Consent Element, displaying a list of used cookies, and allowing the visitor to select which cookies they want to accept by default. The content displayed in the Privacy Bar comes directly from the options set in the Privacy Consent Tools options, as well as the settings in the Privacy & Consent Bar option section.

Continue reading below to know more about the Privacy & Consent Bar and watch from 8:59 in the below video to skip directly to the Privacy & Consent Bar section.

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Privacy & Consent Bar

As discussed above, the Privacy Consent Tools options populate the settings area of the Privacy & Consent Bar. But this bar can also be enabled independently of the Privacy Consent Tools. Let’s walk through this aspect of our Privacy Tools.

When enabled, the options in the Privacy & Consent Bar section will differ, depending on whether the Privacy Consent Tools are also enabled or not. The Privacy Bar Settings option will also be disabled by default.

Let’s step back for a second and consider the simplest Privacy scenario. The Privacy & Consent Bar can be enabled by itself, with the Privacy Consent Tools option and the Privacy & Consent Bar Settings option left disabled, providing a simple bar at the bottom of the website to inform visitors of the cookies used on the site.

Simple Privacy Bar

Privacy Bar Settings

If the Privacy Consent Tools option and the Privacy & Consent Bar Settings option are enabled however, you have the full funcionality of the Privacy & Consent Bar at your disposal. With these options, you can control the style of the content in the expanded section of the Privacy & Consent Bar.

The content can be displayed in columns or tabs, with several options for styling width, gaps and colors. You can also enable extra buttons so the visitor can choose from Accept All, or Reject All, in addition to the OK / Update Setting button. See the video above for a visual runthrough of how the Privacy & Consent Bar Global Options work to help style your Settings area.

Privacy & Consent Bar

Privacy & Consent Bar Global Options

  • Privacy & Consent Bar – Turn on to enable a privacy & consent bar at the bottom of the page.
  • Privacy Bar Expanded Padding – Controls the top/right/bottom/left paddings of the privacy bar area.
  • Privacy Bar Background Color – Controls the background color for the privacy bar.
  • Privacy Bar Font Size – Controls the font size for the privacy bar content.
  • Privacy Bar Text Color – Controls the text color for the privacy bar content.
  • Privacy Bar Link Color – Controls the link color for the privacy bar.
  • Privacy Bar Link Hover Color – Controls the link hover color for the privacy bar.
  • Privacy Bar Text – Enter the text which you want to appear on the privacy bar.
  • Privacy Bar Primary Button Action – “Dismiss Only” – the button closes the bar without saving any consent; visitors grant consent via placeholders or the details panel. “Save Pre-selected” – the button immediately saves the consent types selected under “Privacy Selected Consent Types”. “Save on Change” — the button is hidden until the visitor opens the details panel and changes a checkbox; it then appears as a contextual save action. Note: regardless of this setting, once the settings panel is open the button always saves the current checkbox selection.
  • Privacy Bar Button Text – Controls the button text for the privacy bar acceptance.
  • Privacy Bar Button Font Size – Controls the font size of the privacy bar buttons. Leave empty to inherit the global button font size.
  • Privacy Bar Layout – Controls how the message text and action buttons are arranged. “Centered” keeps them together, centered on one row. “Edges” places the text and buttons on one row, pushed to opposite sides. “Stacked” moves the buttons to a centered second row below the message text.
  • Privacy Bar Message Max Width – Controls the maximum width of the privacy bar’s main row (the message text and action buttons), centered within the bar. Leave empty for full width. With the “Stacked” layout, this width applies to the message text only.
  • Privacy Bar Settings – If enabled, a settings section will be added to show more information and to provide checkboxes for tracking and third party embeds.
  • Privacy Bar Settings Style – Controls how the settings entry is rendered. “Inline Link” shows it inline within the bar text. “Button” renders it as a button alongside the other action buttons (more visible, recommended for clearer consent UX). “Standalone Link” shows it as a link placed next to the action buttons rather than within the text.

  • Privacy Bar Settings Text – Controls the link text for the privacy bar settings.

  • Privacy Bar Primary Button Update Text – Controls the text shown on the primary privacy bar button after a checkbox has changed in the details panel.
  • Privacy Bar Content Layout – Columns / Tabs. Controls the layout for the privacy bar content.
  • Privacy Bar Content Max Width
    – Controls the maximum width of the content container.

  • Privacy Bar Heading Font Size – Controls the font size for the privacy bar heading text.

  • Privacy Bar Headings Color – Controls the text color of the privacy bar heading font.

  • Privacy Bar Column Gap* – Controls the gap between columns in the privacy bar content.
  • Privacy Bar Tabs Border Size* – Controls the border size for the tabs layout. In Pixels.

  • Privacy Bar Tabs Border Color* – Controls the border color for the tabs layout.

  • Privacy Bar Tabs Active Background Color* – Controls the background color of the active tab.
  • Privacy Bar Tabs Content Padding* – Controls the padding for the tab content area.
  • Privacy Bar Consent Item Style – Choose between standard checkboxes or slide toggles for the consent items.
  • Privacy Bar Accept All Button – If enabled, the privacy bar will be extended with a button that grants consent for every available type, regardless of which checkboxes the visitor has toggled.
  • Privacy Bar Accept All Button Text* – Controls the link text for the privacy bar accept all button.
  • Privacy Bar Reject All Button – If enabled, the privacy bar will be extended with a button that allows users to reject all.
  • Privacy Bar Reject All Button Text* – Controls the link text for the privacy bar reject all button.

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