YLB ScorePart IV, Are you inside the rules?
No cookie policy found
If your site uses cookies or trackers of any kind, UK rules expect a short page listing what they are and why. If it uses none, a page saying exactly that is even better, and it is what we do ourselves.
Most website software can generate a draft; the honest version is usually shorter.
Worth about 2 points of your 100 for a typical businessAbout afternoon, by you
See for yourself
Look at your footer for a Cookies link.
How to fix it
- List what the site sets and why, in plain words, and link it from the footer.
The technical version, for your web person
cookie link. An <a> whose href or text contains 'cookie'.
What the check reads. A cookie policy: an anchor whose href or text says cookie, OR a cookie-policy SECTION HEADING inside a legal page fetched this scan. Same heading-level rule as leg_terms: 'we use cookies' in prose is not a cookie policy.
This is one of the checks in a YLB Score report. Every report is free, read by a person before it goes out, and written so that you can act on it without us. Ask for yours.