# Embed Preference Centre/Subscription Preferences on Website **URL:** \ **Category:** CMS Development\ **Tags:** html\ **Created:** [June 6, 2024, 8:17am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/embed-preference-centre-subscription-preferences-on-website/108784 "2024-06-06T08:17:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hattiefawcett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecd19e/32.png) [@hattiefawcett](https://community.hubspot.com/u/hattiefawcett)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 8:17am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/embed-preference-centre-subscription-preferences-on-website/108784/1 "2024-06-06T08:17:28Z")
I want to embed the preference centre on a non-HubSpot website and it seems I can’t. I tried putting an adjusted version of the PC code on our site but it kept crashing. I tried recreating a HS form to ‘act’ as a preference centre but it doesn’t seem to retain certain fields like the mult-select check boxes despite using query strings and setting the form to pre-populate with known values. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Jaycee\_Lewis](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jaycee_lewis/32/61352_2.png) [@Jaycee\_Lewis](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Jaycee_Lewis)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/embed-preference-centre-subscription-preferences-on-website/108784/2 "2024-06-06T20:04:37Z")
Hi, @hattiefawcett 👋 Thanks for your question. Let’s invite some of our community members to the converstaion – hey [@Mike\_Eastwood](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/9259) @stefen @Jnix284, do you have any recent experience or tips to share with @hattiefawcett? Thanks! — Jaycee ---
**Author:** ![jnix284](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jnix284/32/29_2.png) [@jnix284](https://community.hubspot.com/u/jnix284)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/embed-preference-centre-subscription-preferences-on-website/108784/3 "2024-06-18T17:34:05Z")
Hi [@Jaycee\_Lewis](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/127074) and @hattiefawcett from what I’ve experienced, it’s not possible to embed a preference centre on an external website, or even a HubSpot website, because the URL is contact-specific and triggered via marketing emails. I’ve never found a way to surface preferences in this way, perhaps @Anton has come across a trick for this on the dev side? ---
**Author:** ![Anton](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/anton/32/103167_2.png) [@Anton](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Anton)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/embed-preference-centre-subscription-preferences-on-website/108784/4 "2024-06-18T23:24:11Z")
Hi @hattiefawcett, great ideas to create a custom form and copy/pasting the source code into your page. But they won’t work since any pref-center (regardless which tool you use) is always tool-specific. May I ask you why you’re trying to embed the pref-center on an external page? @Jnix284 is totally right - the URL to the pref-center is always user-specific and this **can’t/shouldn’t be reverse engineered at any time in any way**. Just in advance: I do not want to spread fear or something like that but messing with the pref center is something that no developer should do. Just imagine follwing case: something goes wrong and one of the contacts sues you/your company over something the error(you never know who you’re dealing with)… You really don’t want to be responsible for this. **I strongly advise you not to try to “hack the pref-center” since this could lead to a lot of technical and legal problems.** Also - there’s a good reason why even we developers are technically not able to edit the pref-center module. If we could, we would need to be made responsible for everything pref-center related. And this is just not feasable. If you’re trying to get the pref-center the easiest, safest and most common solution would be to modify an existing theme or create your own custom one so that the pref-center will match your companys look&feel. I’d say that almost every company which is using HubSpot (or even any other Marketing-Automation tool) does that. The few ones who doesn’t do that don’t care about the look&feel of the pref-center 😀 If you’re working with a HubSpot partner agency ask them about creating a custom pref-center. If you don’t work with a HubSpot partner or they don’t have developers and would like to have a custom theme with a pref-center with your companys look&feel - drop me a DM; I’ll be happy to chat about this in detail. Hope that helps best, Anton ---
**Author:** ![jnix284](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jnix284/32/29_2.png) [@jnix284](https://community.hubspot.com/u/jnix284)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/embed-preference-centre-subscription-preferences-on-website/108784/5 "2024-06-19T01:01:09Z")
Appreciate you jumping in with further insight @Anton, I completely agree that hacking a solution opens up a lot of unknowns that could cause potential issues that really aren’t worth the risk. A custom theme with subscription pages that match your brand should be sufficient. @hattiefawcett if you’re wanting to give users the ability to subscribe to specific subscription types, you could create your own form that has a property/checkbox for each of your subscription types and then use a workflow to connect their form submission with the corresponding subscription types - this would open the possibility up for having more control over subscription management without having to hack the preferences page directly.