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A cookie scanner is a technology that crawls through your website to look for trackers that invade users' privacy when they visit your domain. Data protection laws such as the GDPR of the EU and California's CCPA require websites to know what personal data they are collecting from their users - and the collection of personal data is largely done through cookies. A cookie scanner is therefore an important tool for compliance with DSGVO, CCPA and other data protection laws worldwide.
In this article, we present both the Cookiebot scan and the Usercentrics Data Privacy Audit scan:

These tools are for anyone who wants to do a quick and free website scan.

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Cookies sending data to inadequate countries will be marked with: (not adequate)

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2. Data Privacy Audit (Usercentrics)

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Example of the scan report

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General things you need to know about both scan reports

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Note

None of those scan tools will tell you if a website is compliant as that would be legal advice. Please always check with your data privacy officer or a specialised lawyer on that question.

Things to check on your CMP

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Further helpful articles

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