Cookie Control

Cookie Control is sold by Civic Computing Limited, a Scottish company in Edinburgh trading since 2001, and it carries more stated third-party certification than anything else in this category: ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, 9001, 14001 and 20000-1, IAB Europe registration and Google Certified CMP Partner status together.

The current Premium tier auto-blocks cookies and trackers, scans up to 8,000 URLs depending on plan, and publishes every price: £75 a year for the smallest tier, up to £415 for the largest, plus VAT.

Civic Computing Limited is registered in Scotland (company number SC221925, incorporated 2001), which places it under the UK's adequacy decision rather than inside the EEA — the same position as SuiteCRM elsewhere in this directory, and a live rather than permanent arrangement.

Civic's own privacy policy states that data is hosted "within the UK/the European Economic Area", without naming which. The older Cookie Control v9 remains on sale in parallel at lower prices (a free Community edition, then £45 and £249 a year), which makes the current price list slightly more confusing to read than the rest of this category.

What Cookie Control does well

• Six stated ISO certifications plus IAB Europe registration
• Auto-blocking with published per-tier pricing
• Hosting stated as UK/EEA
• Long-running company, trading since 2001

Where Cookie Control falls short

• United Kingdom, outside the EEA and dependent on an adequacy decision
• Two parallel product lines (Premium and legacy v9) complicate the price comparison
• Exact hosting country not named, only "UK/the EEA"

Standout feature. The most third-party-certified consent platform in this directory, though the jurisdiction sits outside the EEA on an adequacy decision.