Is your website ready to respect user privacy preferences the moment someone lands on it? With regulators tightening enforcement and browsers now sending automatic opt-out signals, ignoring Global Privacy Control is no longer an option.
This guide walks you through exactly how to enable Global Privacy Control on your website using the Seers dashboard. No coding required. No complicated setup. Just a simple toggle that gets you compliant.
Whether you manage one website or dozens, the steps below will have your GPC signal recognition live within minutes. Let us get straight into it.
Before jumping into the setup, make sure you have a few things ready to go.
You will need an active Seers account to access the dashboard. If you do not have one yet, head over to the Seers registration page and sign up. The free plan works perfectly for this setup.
Keep your website URL handy. You will add it during the domain setup step. This tells Seers which site to attach the cookie banner and GPC settings to.
You will need the ability to add a small script snippet to your site. This is how the Seers cookie banner connects to your domain. Most CMS platforms like WordPress, Shopify, or Wix make this straightforward.
The first step is signing in to your Seers account, where all privacy settings live.
Open your browser and visit the Seers dashboard login page. Enter your registered email and password. If you have not created an account, click on the sign-up option to register first.
Once logged in, you will land on the main dashboard. This is your central hub for managing cookie banners, consent settings, and privacy frameworks across all your domains.
From the left side menu, locate the domains or website management section. This is where you will add or select the website you want to configure for GPC.
Next, you need to connect your website to Seers and get your cookie consent banner running.
Click on the option to add a new domain. Enter your full website URL. Seers will scan your website to detect cookies and trackers already active on your pages. This scan helps build the foundation for your cookie banner.
After adding the domain, Seers will prompt you to set up your cookie banner. Choose your preferred banner style, position, and language. You can customise colours and text to match your website branding. The banner is what your visitors will see and interact with.
Seers generates a small JavaScript snippet for your website. Copy this code and paste it into the header section of your site. Once installed, the banner will start appearing for your visitors. This also lays the groundwork for GPC signal recognition.
With your domain and banner live, it is time to fine-tune the privacy framework preferences.
Inside your Seers dashboard, navigate to the customisation section for the domain you just set up. This area gives you control over how your banner behaves, which frameworks it supports, and how it responds to browser signals.
Within customisation, scroll down or look for a tab labelled Frameworks Preferences. This is where Seers lets you toggle support for various privacy frameworks and signals, including GPC. Each framework has its own toggle switch for easy management.
This section determines how your website responds to different privacy standards. When you enable a framework here, your cookie banner automatically adjusts its behaviour to comply. For GPC, enabling it means your site will honour the opt-in vs opt-out signal sent by a visitor’s browser.
This is the step where everything comes together, and it could not be simpler.
Inside the Frameworks Preferences section, look for the Global Privacy Control option. It will have a toggle switch next to it. By default, this may be turned off on a fresh setup.
Click the toggle to turn GPC support on. That is it. One click. Your website will now automatically detect and respect GPC signals from visitors’ browsers. No extra code, no additional configuration needed.
After enabling the toggle, make sure to save your settings. Seers applies the changes to your live cookie banner almost instantly. Your website is now ready to honour Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals from every visitor.
Once GPC is active, your website starts responding to browser privacy signals automatically.
When a visitor arrives with GPC enabled in their browser, your Seers-powered cookie banner detects the signal. It then adjusts consent behaviour accordingly. Non-essential cookies and trackers are blocked without the visitor needing to manually opt out.
Respecting GPC signals is a recognised requirement under laws like the CCPA. Enabling this feature through Seers puts your website in a stronger position if regulators come checking. It shows you are actively honouring user consent preferences at the browser level.
Users who have GPC turned on care about their privacy. When your website respects that signal without friction, it builds immediate trust. That trust translates into longer sessions, lower bounce rates, and more meaningful engagement.
Here are a few things website administrators often ask when enabling GPC through Seers.
There are several ways to handle GPC on a website, but Seers makes it exceptionally simple.
Enabling Global Privacy Control on your website is one of the simplest compliance steps you can take. With Seers, the entire process takes minutes. Log in, set up your domain and banner, navigate to Frameworks Preferences, and flip the GPC toggle on. Your website will start honouring browser privacy signals immediately, keeping you compliant and building visitor trust without any extra effort.
Setting up GPC on your website does not have to be complicated. With Seers, it takes just a few clicks to respect every visitor's privacy signal and keep your site compliant. Start protecting user consent preferences right now.
START FREE TODAYGPC and cookie consent banners serve different purposes. GPC handles browser-level opt-out signals, while the banner manages on-site consent choices. Both work together to create a complete privacy setup. Enabling GPC through Seers adds automatic signal detection without removing or replacing your existing banner functionality.
Enabling GPC through the Seers dashboard does not add any extra scripts or resources to your website. The detection happens through the existing cookie banner script already installed on your site. There is no additional page load impact, so your site speed stays exactly the same as before.
GPC is legally recognised under the California Consumer Privacy Act as a valid opt-out mechanism. Several other US state privacy laws also reference it. While not every jurisdiction mandates GPC support, enabling it positions your website ahead of regulatory expectations and reduces risk exposure significantly.
You can turn GPC off at any time by going back to the Frameworks Preferences section in your Seers dashboard and switching the toggle off. The change takes effect immediately. However, disabling it means your website will stop recognising browser-level privacy signals from visitors.
GPC is currently supported by browsers like Brave, DuckDuckGo, and Firefox. Chrome users can enable it through extensions. When a visitor uses a browser without GPC, your cookie banner handles consent as usual. The feature only activates when a GPC signal is present in the browser request.
GPC and Google Consent Mode v2 operate as separate privacy mechanisms within the Seers platform. GPC handles browser-level opt-out signals, while Google Consent Mode v2 manages how Google tags behave based on consent status. Both can be enabled simultaneously in the Frameworks Preferences section without any conflict.
The entire GPC setup on Seers is designed for non-technical users. If you can log into a dashboard and click a toggle, you can enable GPC. The only technical step is installing the initial cookie banner script on your website, which most CMS platforms handle through a simple copy-paste process.
Each domain in your Seers account has its own customisation panel and Frameworks Preferences section. You will need to enable GPC individually for each domain. This gives you full control over which websites honour GPC signals and which ones do not, based on your compliance requirements.
When a visitor sends a GPC signal, non-essential tracking cookies are blocked for that session. This means ad tracking and certain analytics data will not be collected for those specific visitors. However, it only affects users who have actively enabled GPC in their browsers, so the overall impact on your data tends to be minimal.
Honouring GPC signals demonstrates active compliance with CCPA opt-out requirements. The California Attorney General has specifically recognised GPC as a valid mechanism for consumers to exercise their right to opt out of data sales. Enabling it through Seers provides documented proof that your website respects these legal obligations.
Rimsha ZafarRimsha is a Senior Content Writer at Seers AI with over 5 years of experience in advanced technologies and AI-driven tools. Her expertise as a research analyst shapes clear, thoughtful insights into responsible data use, trust, and future-facing technologies.
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