--- title: Google Consent Mode description: Integrate Google Consent Mode with Zaraz consent management. image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dev-products-preview.png --- > Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developers.cloudflare.com/zaraz/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. [Skip to content](#%5Ftop) # Google Consent Mode ## Background [Google Consent Mode ↗](https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/security/concepts/consent-mode) is used by Google tools to manage consent regarding the usage of private data and Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Zaraz provides automatic support for Consent Mode v2, as well as manual support for Consent Mode v1. You can also use Google Analytics and Google Ads without cookies by selecting **Permissions** and disabling **Access client key-value store**. --- ## Consent Mode v2 Consent Mode v2 specifies a "default" consent status that is usually set when the session starts, and an "updated" status that is set when the visitor configures their consent preferences. Consent Mode v2 will turn on automatically when the correct event properties are available, meaning there is no need to change any settings in the respective tools or their actions. ### Set the default consent status Often websites will want to set a default consent status that denies all categories. You can do that with no code at all by checking the **Set Google Consent Mode v2 state** in the Zaraz **Settings** page. If that is not what your website needs, and instead you want to set the default consent status in a more granular way, use the reserved `google_consent_default` property: JavaScript ``` zaraz.set("google_consent_default", { 'ad_storage': 'denied', 'ad_user_data': 'denied', 'ad_personalization': 'denied', 'analytics_storage': 'denied' }) ``` After the above code is executed, the consent status will be saved to `localStorage` and will be included with every subsequent Zaraz event. Note that the code should be included as part of your website HTML code, usually inside a `