Can I change the cookies page on my site?
Your site has a cookies page: the plain page a visitor lands on when they want to know what's actually happening — and the page your cookie banner's Cookie details link points at (How does the cookie banner on my site work?).
It's a real page on your site, not a pop-up or a hosted widget somebody else controls. You can find it, read it, edit it and link to it like any other page.
The part that's yours
Everything around the marked blocks belongs to you. Rewrite the introduction in your own voice, add a paragraph explaining why you count visits at all, restyle it so it looks like the rest of your site, add a heading, put it in your footer or your menu. Those edits stay. Refreshing the page does not flatten your writing.
The part Bernard keeps accurate
A couple of blocks on the page are machine-kept: the list of what actually runs on your site, and the cookie-choice section that goes with it. Bernard regenerates those from what's running right now, which is the point — a cookies page that says something different from what your site does is worse than no page at all.
The consequence is worth stating plainly: anything you type inside those blocks is overwritten the next time the page is refreshed. It isn't personal and nothing else on the page is touched. If you want to say something about the list, say it in a paragraph above or below the block, where your words are safe.
Refreshing it
Ask Bernard to refresh your cookies page whenever what your site runs has changed — you switched measuring on or off, or you had something taken out (What's tracking my visitors on my site?). He rebuilds the machine-kept blocks from the current picture, leaves your own writing alone, and puts the whole thing on your draft.
Nothing about that is live yet. The refreshed page goes public when you approve it, in exactly the same way as any other change to your site — see How do I approve or undo changes? if you want the mechanics.
For what the page is describing in the first place — what cookies are and which of them need asking about — start with What are cookies, and why does my site need a banner?.
The prompt
“Refresh my cookies page so the list of what runs on my site is up to date, and tell me what changed.”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Connect bernard to your AI over MCP — a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI — then paste the prompt above.
Questions people ask
- Can I rewrite the cookies page in my own words?
- Yes — everything outside the marked blocks is yours. Change the wording, add an explanation, restyle it to match the rest of your site, put it where you like in your menu. Those edits are kept when the page is refreshed, and like any other change they sit on your draft until you approve them.
- Why did my edit inside the list disappear?
- Because that part is machine-kept. The blocks holding the list of what runs on your site are regenerated from what's actually running, so anything typed inside them is replaced next time the page is refreshed. It's not a rejection of your wording — it's what stops the page quietly going out of date. Put your own words around the blocks instead, where they're safe.
- How do I get the page updated after I change something?
- Ask Bernard to refresh the cookies page. He rebuilds the machine-kept blocks from what your site runs now, leaves the rest of the page exactly as you wrote it, and puts the result on your draft — it goes live when you approve it, like everything else.
- Do I have to have this page?
- If something optional runs on your site, you need somewhere that says so plainly, and this is that page — your cookie banner links to it. If nothing optional runs, the page has very little to say, and no approval is needed to leave it be.