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Cookie Audit

Performing a Cookie Audit is one of the first steps to perform to achieve compliance with the UK cookie law / EU cookie directive.

There are a number ways of doing it

  1. Get someone else to do it for you. Depending on who you hire, this may cost a lot of money.
  2. Use a FREE tool and try to do it yourself
  3. Use an automated tool that predicts the cookies your site will serve.
  4. A combination of the above.

Hire someone to do a cookie audit

If you want to do this then use Google search for “cookie audit”.

Use a FREE tool

You can use a tool such as the Cookie Audit Tool from attacat?to help you identify the cookies your website serves up. This is a manual tool – you have to drive it.

Alternatively, use the cookiecert.com service. This tool uses autobots to visit your site.

My experience with cookiecert is mixed; it seems to report cookies that come from other sites (e.g. PayPal) or it can be tricked into not finding any cookies (e.g. paulsmith.co.uk – attacat reports 7 cookies on the home page)

Use an automated tool that predicts cookies

See the design of the cookie-cat plugin

A combination of the above

In order to create this catalog I have tried all of the above methods.

It’s a laborious process and not ?the sort of thing you’d really want to do if you don’t have to.

So that’s why we recommend this solution!

 

 

Cookie categories

  1. Strictly necessary cookies - these cookies enable services you have specifically asked for

  2. Performance cookies - these cookies collect anonymous information on the pages visited

  3. Functionality cookies - these cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience

  4. Targeting cookies or advertising cookies - these cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests.

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