# UserGuard

> UserGuard is an evidence-first cookie compliance and website accessibility platform for SaaS teams and agencies, generally available. It verifies every cookie with hard evidence, publishes an honest consent banner and preference center, measures consent analytics, and adds per-site accessibility controls — all from one embed script, priced at $10 per site per month with automatic volume discounts.

## Key facts

- Status: generally available. Create an account at https://app.userguard.io/signup — every plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee (there is no free trial tier; the guarantee is the trial).
- Pricing: $10 per site per month for 1–2 sites, $8 from 3 sites, $7.50 from 10 sites, $7.25 from 20 sites, custom contracts at 50+ sites. No pageview or traffic limits. Every tier includes the full workflow — higher tiers add scale, not features.
- Core differentiator: the scanner only adds a cookie to the inventory when there is hard evidence — a Set-Cookie header, an HTTP-only record, or a document.cookie value. Scripts, pixels, iframes, and localStorage keys are kept as labeled context and never counted as cookies, which prevents the over-counting ("false positive") problem common to cookie scanners.
- Consent: the banner offers accept-all, reject-optional, and a preference center across four categories (necessary, analytics, marketing, functional). Accept and reject are drawn as the same button in the banner accent color, neither is pre-selected, and the preference center has its own one-click reject-all. Every visitor choice is logged against site, banner version, region, language shown, and timestamp, and can be exported as CSV.
- AI assists with cookie categorization and plain-language disclosures; a human approves everything. Nothing publishes automatically. AI review is the one metered feature: 10 runs per site per month (scans and pageviews are unmetered).
- Languages: banner copy can be translated per language (any BCP 47 tag, right-to-left included). The visitor's browser language is matched automatically, untranslated fields fall back to the base copy, and the language actually shown is recorded with each consent event.
- Accessibility: a visitor-facing widget (text size, contrast, reduced motion, readable font) is included with every paid site as a per-site toggle — no separate vendor or invoice.
- Contact: hello@userguard.io

## Compliance coverage

US-first: CCPA/CPRA opt-out management ("Do Not Sell or Share" link, notice at collection, automatic Global Privacy Control honoring — mandatory in California, one of twelve US states requiring universal opt-out signals as of 2026), with region-aware behavior for the 19+ comprehensive US state privacy laws in force in 2026. Europe: GDPR + ePrivacy prior-consent model (non-essential tags held until consent, equal-prominence reject, easy withdrawal, Article 7(1) consent records), UK GDPR + PECR as a separate configuration tracking the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, and Google Consent Mode v2 signals (default-denied for all four consent types). Accessibility: the consent banner is designed to WCAG 2.1 AA; the accessibility widget supports — but does not replace — a broader accessibility program (ADA, European Accessibility Act / EN 301 549 context). UserGuard helps you operate compliance; no tool makes a site compliant on its own. IAB TCF support is on the roadmap; we intend to complete IAB Europe's CMP validation and will not claim TCF support before that is real.

- [CCPA & US state law support](https://userguard.io/ccpa)
- [GDPR & ePrivacy support](https://userguard.io/gdpr)

## Pages

- [Home](https://userguard.io/): what UserGuard is and how the evidence gate works
- [How it works](https://userguard.io/product): the product lifecycle — scan, gate, review, publish, prove
- [Pricing](https://userguard.io/pricing): site-based pricing, cost calculator, and pricing FAQ
- [Cookie banner](https://userguard.io/cookie-banner): the consent experience, with a live interactive preview
- [Consent analytics](https://userguard.io/consent-analytics): consent reporting tied to site and banner version
- [Accessibility widget](https://userguard.io/accessibility-widget): visitor accessibility controls
- [Privacy + accessibility](https://userguard.io/privacy-accessibility): why one platform runs both obligations
- [Accessibility standards](https://userguard.io/accessibility-standards): WCAG 2.1 AA, and what a widget cannot do
- [SaaS](https://userguard.io/industries/saas): does a SaaS app need a cookie banner
- [Agencies](https://userguard.io/industries/agencies): running compliance across many client sites
- [E-commerce](https://userguard.io/industries/ecommerce): whether ad pixels count as selling data
- [Healthcare](https://userguard.io/industries/healthcare): third-party pixels on patient-facing pages
- [Publishers](https://userguard.io/industries/publishers): ad revenue, consent rates, and GPC
- [About](https://userguard.io/about): what UserGuard is and the positions it holds
- [Security](https://userguard.io/security): what is held, and what is deliberately not
- [Blog](https://userguard.io/blog): what we keep finding when we scan other people's sites
- [Create an account](https://app.userguard.io/signup) — 30-day money-back guarantee
- [Help center](https://userguard.io/kb) — eighteen guides from install to export
- [Contact](https://userguard.io/contact) — support@userguard.io

## Blog articles

- [What a consent record actually has to prove](https://userguard.io/blog/what-consent-records-must-prove)
- [The US state privacy patchwork, mapped for site owners](https://userguard.io/blog/us-state-privacy-patchwork)
- [Building a Do Not Sell or Share link that works](https://userguard.io/blog/do-not-sell-or-share-link)
- [CCPA vs GDPR: two different jobs, not two banners](https://userguard.io/blog/ccpa-vs-gdpr)
- [Google Consent Mode v2, explained without the hand-waving](https://userguard.io/blog/google-consent-mode-v2)
- [Global Privacy Control is the opt-out you cannot ignore](https://userguard.io/blog/global-privacy-control)
- [Why privacy and accessibility belong in the same platform](https://userguard.io/blog/accessibility-and-privacy-platform)
- [Compliance workflows for agencies managing dozens of sites](https://userguard.io/blog/agency-compliance-workflows)
- [What a better cookie policy generator should produce](https://userguard.io/blog/cookie-policy-generator)
- [Designing region-aware consent without overwhelming users](https://userguard.io/blog/region-aware-consent)
- [First-party vs. third-party cookies: what your scanner should explain](https://userguard.io/blog/first-party-vs-third-party-cookies)
- [Pricing a site-based compliance platform](https://userguard.io/blog/site-based-pricing)
- [Consent analytics that actually help teams make decisions](https://userguard.io/blog/consent-analytics-that-matter)
- [What ADA accessibility tooling should look like in 2026](https://userguard.io/blog/ada-widget-roadmap)
- [Using AI to review cookie categories without losing control](https://userguard.io/blog/ai-cookie-classification)
- [How to avoid false positives in cookie scans](https://userguard.io/blog/cookie-scan-false-positives)