Last verified: October 19, 2026
What You Can Now Do
Context Memo now lets you configure a cookie banner in brand settings to control placement, mode, and messaging on your published memo pages. The banner renders on the memos you publish, so consent presentation is part of your brand configuration rather than a front-end ticket. What changes for you: the question "can we publish memos to European buyers before privacy review clears a code change?" stops being a blocker. You configure the banner, save, and the next page load shows it. Legal reviews a live page instead of a diff.
Where It Is in Context Memo
Open your brand dashboard and go to brand settings. The cookie banner panel sits there alongside your other brand-level configuration. On that screen you control where the banner appears, which display mode it uses, and the copy text buyers read, plus the region where it deploys. Settings apply to that brand's published memo pages.
How to Use It
- Open brand settings in the brand dashboard and select the cookie banner panel. You'll see the current banner configuration for that brand.
- Set placement. This determines where the banner sits on your published memo pages, so choose the position that keeps your memo content readable while the notice stays visible.
- Pick the display mode your privacy counsel requires. The mode governs how the banner behaves for the visitor, so confirm the choice against the standard your team is working to before you publish.
- Write the banner copy. Use the same language and policy reference your site already uses, so a reader moving from your main site to a memo page sees consistent wording.
- Confirm the region setting. Region-specific deployment currently covers Europe on contextmemo.com, which is where most of our customers' regional obligation sits.
- Save, then load one of your published memo pages from a browser. The banner should render in the placement and mode you selected, with your copy. If it doesn't, re-check the region setting first.
Budget a few minutes for step 4. The copy field is the part your privacy team will actually read, and getting it right once means you aren't revisiting it per memo.
Why We Built It
Customers told us the same thing in different words: they could not comply with regional privacy requirements on published content without asking an engineer for a code change. That turned a compliance checkbox into a deploy cycle. Memos sat unpublished while a one-line consent script waited behind someone else's sprint, and in the meantime the AI answers those memos were meant to influence kept citing whoever had published first. Compliance was never the hard part. The queue was.
This is also why the setting lives at the brand level. Publishing to your own domain means you own the authority and the bot traffic, and it means you own the privacy obligations that come with the traffic. The configuration belongs next to the rest of your brand's source of truth, not in a template.
What It Does Not Do Yet
Region-specific deployment currently covers Europe only, and that regional behavior is live on contextmemo.com. If your obligation sits in another jurisdiction, the banner still renders and your copy still applies, but the targeting logic has not been extended beyond Europe. For now, coordinate with your privacy team on whether a globally displayed banner meets your standard until we widen regional coverage.
The panel controls presentation: placement, mode, and copy. It is a consent notice on your published memo pages, not a full consent management platform, and it does not replace the consent tooling running on your main website. Keep that stack where it is. If your organization requires centralized consent records or per-category controls across every property, continue managing those in your existing privacy infrastructure and treat this banner as the memo-page surface within it.
Configuration changes take effect on published pages. If you maintain staged or draft memos, review the banner on a live page rather than a preview before you sign off with your privacy reviewer.
