YLB ScoreYLB Score › The checks, explained › Part IV, Are you inside the rules?
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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. An <a> element whose href or link text matches /cookie/, same real-anchor rule as leg_privacy.
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.