The privacy policy that 404s.
Five pages, probed from the site’s own links and, where no link names one, a single conventional address. We check that a page exists and loads. We never read it and tell you what it says.
The problem
Nobody has opened the footer links in three years
A site gets rebuilt, the paths change, and the footer keeps pointing at the old ones. Or the privacy page was created on launch day with a heading and a sentence of placeholder text, and has been like that since. Both are the kind of thing a client discovers at the worst possible moment, and both take one request to find.
How it works
How legal pages works
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Follow the site’s own links
The entry page’s links are the first source, because a site that links to /privacy-policy has told us where its privacy notice is. Only where nothing links to one do we try a single conventional path.
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Three things can be wrong
The page is missing entirely; a published link to it does not resolve; or it loads and has so little text that it reads as a placeholder. Each is a separate observation with its own wording.
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Graded by what it is
A privacy notice is graded highest — it is the one page a site with any form or analytics is required to have under GDPR Art. 13. An imprint is a requirement in some countries and not others, so it is reported as something to check rather than as a gap.
Why it matters
What you get
Moving a page does not churn the finding
The finding is keyed on the kind of page and what is wrong with it, not on a URL. Moving /privacy to /privacy-policy does not close one finding and open an identical one; the page appearing is what closes it.
We do not read your lawyer’s work
Whether a privacy notice says the right things is a lawyer’s judgement and the report says so. This check answers a narrower question that a crawler can actually answer: is the page there, and does it load.
Including the accessibility statement
Named by EN 301 549 and expected under the European Accessibility Act for services in scope. It is reported as something to check, and the accessibility check can draft one for you.
Features
More features
White-label client reports
One PDF per client per month, carrying your logo, your colours and their name. Nothing in it mentions us except the disclaimer.
Learn morePayment-page scripts
Every script on a page that really takes card details, inventoried and hashed, so a change in the set or in a body is something you hear about.
Learn moreCookies before consent
The crawl loads each site cold, as a first-time visitor, and reports the cookies set and the trackers fired before anyone agreed to anything.
Learn moreStart with one page.
Paste a client’s checkout address and see what a crawl reports. No account, no card, and the report has a link you can send to anyone.