A badge for sites that don't need a cookie banner
People are shipping cookie banners purely to explain why they don't need one, because “where is your banner?” keeps arriving as a support ticket. This says the same thing in 28 pixels and answers the ticket once.
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Paste this into your footer
<a href="https://capralens.com/cookie-banner-check" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="223" height="28" viewBox="0 0 223 28" role="img" aria-label="This site sets no cookies">
<rect x="0.5" y="0.5" width="222" height="27" rx="13.5" fill="#12121a"/>
<circle cx="18" cy="14" r="6.5" fill="none" stroke="#e2e8f0" stroke-width="1.5" opacity="0.85"/>
<circle cx="18" cy="14" r="2" fill="#e2e8f0"/>
<text x="32" y="18" font-family="system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, sans-serif" font-size="12" font-weight="500" fill="#e2e8f0">This site sets no cookies</text>
</svg>
</a>This badge loads nothing
It is inline SVG. Pasting it makes no request to us and no request to anyone else — no image fetch, no script, no font. We deliberately did not build the usual hosted-image badge, because that would make every visitor to your site announce themselves to our server, and a privacy badge that phones home would be a joke at your visitors' expense. The link is the only thing that ever reaches us, and only if somebody clicks it.
It is your claim, not our certificate
Nobody audits this and we verify nothing. Displaying it says your site stores nothing on a visitor's device — no cookies, and no localStorage or sessionStorage standing in for one — so only use it if that is true today, and take it down the day you add the embed, the pixel or the platform feature that makes it untrue. A false badge is worse than no badge: it is a statement about privacy that your own page disproves in the network tab.
Not sure whether it is true for you? Run the five-question check first. (We build software, not legal advice: assess your own setup.)
Why we made it free, and what we get
No signup, no account, nothing to buy — take it and go. What we get is the link, if you leave it on: it points at a page explaining when a banner is and is not needed, which is the same argument our product rests on. That is the whole trade, and you can drop the link with the “No link” option and keep the badge.
Want the badge to stay true?
Most sites lose their cookie-free status to their analytics, not to anything they built. CapraLens sets no cookies and keeps no cross-day identifier, so the numbers survive the claim. Free tier, one site, no card.