How to Find a User’s Session ID When They Request to View Their Cookie Consent

Users can check their session ID from the consent summary panel by clicking the show consent details button, as shown in the image below:



Alternatively, the session ID can be retrieved through browser cookies using Developer Tools in Google Chrome (for other browsers, please refer to the respective documentation):


Go to the Application tab in Developer Tools and look under Cookies and find the cookie that begins with cwc_consent.


Copy the cookie value and use the atob() function in the Console tab to decode it.


This will reveal the content including the session_id.

You can then use the extracted session_id to search for the user’s consent record within the Cookie Wow platform, as shown in the example below:

Updated on: 29/05/2025