Local Consent Gate for WordPress Hotel Websites | eMax Hotel Internet Marketing

WordPress privacy plugin · by eMax

Nothing tracks your guests until they agree.

Local Consent Gate is a lightweight, local-first WordPress plugin that holds analytics, ad pixels, chat widgets, and session-recording tools until a visitor chooses what to allow — with extra care on the pages where guests share personal details.

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Version 1.6.0 · WordPress 5.0+ · PHP 7.3+ · GPL-2.0+ · No SaaS account, no external dashboard.

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Local Consent Gate 1.6.0

.zip plugin WordPress 5.0+ PHP 7.3+ GPL-2.0+

Download the plugin and install it under Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin. After activating, configure it under Consent Gate → Settings. New to it? The built-in setup checklist walks you through the essentials.

Download v1.6.0 (.zip) Have eMax install it

Prefer a hands-off setup? eMax can install, configure, and test it for you — see the service options below.

What’s in the box

  • Consent banner & preferences modal
  • Five script categories
  • CIPA-aware sensitive-page controls
  • Google Consent Mode signals
  • Local consent log with CSV export
  • Setup checklist & one-click pages
Direct bookings need clean tracking

Your hotel site shouldn’t be a mystery box of scripts

Tags get added over time — by agencies, plugins, booking engines, ad platforms, and chat tools. Local Consent Gate organizes the ones you choose to manage and loads them only after a visitor opts in.

5Script categories
LocalStays in WordPress
HotelFocused defaults
What it does

A consent-based gatekeeper, not just a banner

It’s built to hold selected scripts until the visitor accepts the matching category — and to keep working sensibly when they don’t.

Holds scripts back

Analytics, ad pixels, chat, and recording tags you paste in stay inert until consent is given for their category. Necessary scripts always run.

Honors privacy signals

Global Privacy Control is always respected and shows the visitor a notice. Do Not Track is honored too, when you choose to enable it.

Keeps a local record

Consent choices are logged inside WordPress — action, timestamp, categories, anonymized IP, hashed user agent, GPC/DNT — and exportable to CSV.

Speaks Google Consent Mode

Sends consent signals for Google tools — analytics storage, ad storage, ad personalization, ad user data, and functionality/security storage.

Gives visitors control

A clear banner with Accept All, Reject Non-Essential, and Customize — plus a Cookie Settings button to revisit or withdraw a choice anytime.

Helps you get it right

A setup checklist flags what’s left to configure, a test mode verifies gating, and one-click buttons create your cookie-info and Do-Not-Sell pages.

Five categories

Every script lands in a clear bucket

Paste each vendor’s tag into the category it belongs to. Visitors consent per category, and you always know what loads where.

  • Necessary — always on; runs the site and stores the consent choice
  • Analytics — usage measurement such as GA4
  • Marketing — ad pixels and retargeting tags
  • Functional — embedded video, maps, personalization
  • Chat, Interaction & Session Recording — its own bucket, treated with extra care
CIPA-aware controls

Built for a more careful tracking setup

These controls are designed to reduce unmanaged tracking-script exposure. They don’t guarantee legal compliance — they give your site a more deliberate technical footing.

No consent by scroll

Consent requires a clear action — not passive scrolling, closing, or continued browsing.

A real reject option

Reject Non-Essential sits beside Accept as an equal choice, not hidden behind extra screens.

Interaction controls

Chat, heatmap, and session-recording tools are separated from ordinary analytics — and can be blocked on sensitive pages.

Hotel-focused defaults

Extra caution on high-intent pages

Hotel sites aren’t brochures. Guests submit personal details for reservations, group travel, weddings, events, employment, and inquiries.

Local Consent Gate can stop chat, interaction, heatmap, and session-recording scripts from loading on the pages where that matters most.

Common sensitive paths

  • Contact pages
  • RFP and group-sales forms
  • Wedding inquiry pages
  • Meeting and event inquiry pages
  • Careers and job applications
  • Booking and reservation paths
  • Checkout, login, and account pages
Our setup process

Installed, configured, and tested by eMax

The plugin is part of the answer; proper setup is the rest. We review how tracking loads today and move the scripts you choose into a consent-controlled workflow.

Review

We map your analytics, pixels, embeds, chat widgets, and the pages that deserve extra care.

Organize

We sort selected scripts into Analytics, Marketing, Functional, and Interaction.

Control

We move those scripts into Local Consent Gate so they load by visitor choice.

Protect

We set the sensitive paths where chat, heatmap, and recording tools should never load.

Test

We check first visit, accept, reject, customize, withdraw, GPC behavior, and sensitive-page blocking.

Document

We hand you a plain summary of what’s configured and which scripts are managed.

One honest limitation: setup matters

Local Consent Gate only controls scripts added to or managed through the plugin. Tracking loaded directly by a theme, Site Kit, Elementor custom code, a header/footer script plugin, a chat plugin, or a booking-engine widget can still load outside of it.

That’s exactly why we recommend a setup review — to find where scripts load today, remove duplicate or unmanaged snippets where possible, and bring the ones you choose under consent control.

Service options

Choose the right level of cleanup

Every site is different. These levels match the complexity of your hotel’s tracking setup.

Starter

Basic setup

For simple WordPress hotel sites

  • Plugin installation
  • Banner configuration
  • Privacy policy link
  • Script category setup
  • Accept / reject / customize testing
Recommended

Professional cleanup

For sites using analytics, ads, forms, and pixels

  • Tracking script review
  • GA4 / GTM / Meta organization
  • Sensitive-page configuration
  • Cookie-information page setup
  • Do-Not-Sell page setup if needed
  • Testing summary
Advanced

Full script review

For booking engines, chat, heatmaps, multiple vendors

  • Full script-placement review
  • Consent category mapping
  • Interaction / session controls
  • Google Consent Mode support
  • Embed and page-path review
  • Setup documentation

Contact eMax for pricing based on your site size, tracking tools, and booking-engine setup.

A good fit for

  • Independent and boutique hotels
  • Hotel management company sites
  • Restaurants, venues, and hospitality brands
  • Sites using GA4 or Google Tag Manager
  • Sites with Meta Pixel or remarketing tags
  • Sites using chat, heatmaps, or session replay
  • Sites with contact, RFP, wedding, or careers forms

You may need a larger platform for

  • Enterprise CMP certification
  • IAB TCF support
  • Automated global cookie scanning
  • Advanced international geo-targeting
  • Centralized SaaS consent reporting
  • Legal-team-managed vendor databases
  • Large-scale ad-tech compliance workflows

Compliance disclaimer

Local Consent Gate is a technical privacy-control plugin. It is not a law firm, a legal service, or a guarantee of compliance.

Using it does not guarantee compliance with CIPA, GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, PECR, LGPD, or any other privacy law or regulation.

Privacy laws and enforcement change over time, and compliance depends on your site’s actual scripts, disclosures, data practices, vendors, contracts, forms, jurisdictions, and operations. Please consult qualified legal counsel about your site’s specific obligations. Local Consent Gate supports a more careful setup by letting you manage selected scripts through consent-based loading.

FAQ

Common questions

Is this a full compliance platform?

No. It’s a local WordPress privacy-control and script-gating plugin. It manages selected scripts through consent-based loading, but it doesn’t replace legal review or an enterprise consent platform.

Does it scan my whole site for cookies?

No. It’s intentionally lightweight and does not perform automated cookie scanning. eMax can review your site by hand as part of a setup service.

Does it block every script automatically?

No. It controls scripts added to or managed through the plugin. Scripts added elsewhere can still load unless they’re moved or disabled.

Can it help with Google Analytics and Meta Pixel?

Yes. These can be placed into the appropriate categories so they load based on the visitor’s choice.

What about chat or session-replay tools?

Yes. They have their own Chat, Interaction & Session Recording category, and can be blocked on sensitive pages.

Does it guarantee CIPA or GDPR compliance?

No. No plugin guarantees legal compliance on its own. This is a technical tool that supports a more careful privacy and tracking setup.

Take control of your tracking scripts

Download Local Consent Gate and install it yourself, or have eMax review how scripts load on your hotel site and set everything up for you.

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