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title: IAB TCF
description: Use Inth Consent for IAB TCF projects and vendor-level consent.
lastModified: "2026-08-21T17:01:05+01:00"
lastAuthor: Kaylee
---
IAB TCF is for publishers and teams whose advertising, measurement, or monetization partners require the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework.

For eligible Consent projects, Inth can provide the managed CMP layer for IAB TCF while your application keeps the c15t-rendered consent experience. That gives teams a hosted path instead of registering, operating, and maintaining their own CMP implementation directly.

The TCF expects participating CMPs to be registered. Inth's IAB TCF add-on gives eligible projects an Inth-managed registered-CMP path for TCF consent flows.

## What Inth provides

Inth manages the hosted platform layer around an IAB TCF consent project:

* project-level IAB TCF enablement
* hosted policy resolution for TCF regions
* vendor-list configuration in the consent project
* Consent Sessions for region-aware runtime behavior
* consent saves and durable consent records
* trusted-origin checks for connected applications
* operational support for unusual usage or consent-record behavior

Use Inth docs for the hosted CMP layer, project setup, add-on billing, trusted origins, policy packs, Consent Sessions, and consent records.

## What your app provides

Your app still renders the banner, dialog, widgets, and surrounding consent UX with c15t.

Use c15t docs for frontend package setup, framework-specific components, styling, script loading, iframe blocking, internationalization, and the browser behavior of IAB TCF components.

## When to enable IAB TCF

Enable IAB TCF when your consent program needs TCF signals for advertising, publishing, measurement, or vendor-level consent in covered regions.

Do not enable IAB TCF just because a site uses analytics. Standard consent policies are usually simpler when your partners do not require the IAB vendor framework.

## Setup overview

1. Create a [Consent project](/docs/consent/guides/create-project).
2. Enable the IAB TCF add-on for that project.
3. Configure trusted origins for the application.
4. Configure IAB vendors and any required non-IAB disclosures.
5. Use a policy pack that includes IAB TCF behavior for the regions that need it.
6. Connect your c15t app to the hosted project.
7. Save a test consent choice and confirm the consent record appears in Inth.

## Pricing

IAB TCF is billed as a project add-on. See [Pricing](/docs/pricing) for the current public billing model.

## Compliance boundary

Inth helps provide managed CMP infrastructure and recordkeeping for IAB TCF projects. Your organization still owns its privacy program, vendor selection, legal basis choices, disclosures, policy copy, and legal review.

Depending on your role, you may also have separate responsibilities as a publisher, vendor, advertiser, or other participant in the advertising ecosystem.

## External references

* [IAB Europe TCF for CMPs](https://iabeurope.eu/tcf-for-cmps/)
* [IAB Europe CMP list](https://iabeurope.eu/cmp-list/)