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Scans your website for cookies

After creating an account, simply input your website’s URL and we’ll take it from there. Our cookie scanner will assess every page on your website and find all active first-party and third-party cookies.

Quick, painless and economical way for our little enterprise to be compliant!

Lists all the cookies on your website

In just a few short minutes, we’ll generate a report that lists any cookies we find, categorized into Essential Cookies, Functional Cookies, Advertising Cookies, and Performance Cookies.

A fantastic service I've used a few times now for various websites. I keep coming back because it is easy, comprehensive, and reasonably priced.

Gets you ready for ePD & CCPA compliance

Understanding which cookies your website uses is essential for compliance with privacy laws like the EU ePrivacy Directive (ePD, AKA the EU Cookie Law), and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Under these laws, you’ll need your visitors’ permission before using or setting any non-essential cookies (Cookies used for things like advertising and tracking website performance).

Our scanner shows you which cookies on your site need visitor consent, helping you follow privacy rules in the EU, USA and other regions with strict data privacy laws.

How our cookie scanner works

Our cookie scanner works a little bit like a fingerprint scanner. Just as each fingerprint has distinct features, cookies have specific characteristics that set them apart. The scanner looks for these unique markers in your website, then classifies them using a database of known cookies and tracking tools. It then generates a clear report showing each cookie's details, including what it does (like tracking visitor numbers or helping with advertising) and which company created it (such as Google or Facebook).

Features

We've packed our cookie scanner tool with a bunch of helpful tools and features
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Automated Cookie Scanning and Classification

Once you've set up an account, our scanner starts to work its magic, crawling your site and getting your cookie report together in a few minutes.

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Database of thousands of common cookies

We use an ever-growing database of commonly used cookies to help us identify and classify any cookie or tracking technology on your site.

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Included consent management system

Our cookie scanner comes packaged with our super easy to use cookie consent management system and cookie banner.

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Integrated cookie policy generator

Once our scanner has categorized your cookies, it automatically generates a compliant cookie policy to put on your website.

Find the types of cookies on your website

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are required to enable basic website functionality. They usually expire at the end of a user’s session.

You won’t need your user’s consent to use them.

  • Session Cookies:
    These cookies temporarily store information about a user’s current website session. This is essential for keeping them logged in, remembering items in their shopping cart, or remembering their language preferences for the session’s duration.
  • Security Cookies:
    These cookies protect user accounts by adding security features. They limit login attempts after multiple failures and request extra verification when unusual activity occurs, such as logins from new locations or devices.

Non-essentially cookies

While they’re arguably quite useful for your users, non-essential cookies aren’t required for your site to function. Typically, they store data between sessions, i.e. if a user leaves and comes back the next day, non-essential cookies keep their shopping cart full and track them as a returning user.

You’ll need informed consent from your users before using non-essential cookies.

  • Functional Cookies:
    Functional cookies enhance the functionality of the website. Storing information about a user’s language preferences or keeping them logged in between sessions.
  • Advertising Cookies:
    Advertising or marketing cookies are used to deliver advertising that is more relevant to your interests, e.g. Meta’s Pixel and Google AdSense cookies.
  • Performance Cookies:
    Sometimes referred to as analytics cookies, performance cookies are used to understand how the website is being used. The most common performance cookie is ‘ga’, the cookie used by Google Analytics.
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From startups to thriving online businesses, GetTerms has helped over 500,000 websites meet the compliance requirements of global data privacy laws

Loved by thousands of online businesses, just like yours.

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Enrique Camarena

Great service and extremely easy to use. Saves you from stressful thinking and saves lots of time.

Ariel N Atkinson

Thank you guys for making this so easy for my new website. I really appreciate you♥

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Morado Creative Studio

So easy to use. I plan on recommending it to all of my clients.

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Studio K Ford

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Martha Duffet

So quick and easy. Saved me tons of time, when I have lots of projects going on. One less headache.

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ResusciTech

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Rob Parmenter

A fantastic service I've used a few times now for various websites. I keep coming back because it is easy, comprehensive, and reasonably priced.

Perye

Super fast and efficient. Thanks for saving me a headache

Enrique Camarena

Great service and extremely easy to use. Saves you from stressful thinking and saves lots of time.

Ariel N Atkinson

Thank you guys for making this so easy for my new website. I really appreciate you♥

Gisell

Morado Creative Studio

So easy to use. I plan on recommending it to all of my clients.

Kristy

Studio K Ford

Thank you Getterms! So easy to use and super handy for beginners :)

Martha Duffet

So quick and easy. Saved me tons of time, when I have lots of projects going on. One less headache.

Greg

ResusciTech

Very easy to use. Much better experience than other online services with hidden fees

Rob Parmenter

A fantastic service I've used a few times now for various websites. I keep coming back because it is easy, comprehensive, and reasonably priced.

Perye

Super fast and efficient. Thanks for saving me a headache

Ethan

Absolutely easy to use. Loved everything about this service!

Sarah

Absolutely outstanding. quick and painless experience. Lovely to have something so worthwhile given to you free of charge and no strings attached. Thank you so much!

Kobus

Just amazing! I'm blown away how easy it was to generate a professional privacy policy, cookie policy and terms of service policy.

Ben

Do What You Can't

I'm incredibly impressed in both the value and quality of service this policy generating service provides! This saved me SO much time and money!

HDMI Expert

Pixel Pro UK

This was so easy to use. Absolutely Great Thanks, saved me quite a lot of time and effort in having to try and come up with my own words on a subject I knew very little about :)

Alexander Hayes

Brilliant! I keep returning to generate new policies with my clients. A comprehensive and excellently presented service.

ToddT

Peak n Pedal Sports

Quick, painless and economical way for our little enterprise to be compliant!

Deary

Perfect. Easy. Acceptable price. Well written. Fast.

David

Saves me $1000 of dollars in Law fees. And helps me understand polices in an easy to digest way

Ethan

Absolutely easy to use. Loved everything about this service!

Sarah

Absolutely outstanding. quick and painless experience. Lovely to have something so worthwhile given to you free of charge and no strings attached. Thank you so much!

Kobus

Just amazing! I'm blown away how easy it was to generate a professional privacy policy, cookie policy and terms of service policy.

Ben

Do What You Can't

I'm incredibly impressed in both the value and quality of service this policy generating service provides! This saved me SO much time and money!

HDMI Expert

Pixel Pro UK

This was so easy to use. Absolutely Great Thanks, saved me quite a lot of time and effort in having to try and come up with my own words on a subject I knew very little about :)

Alexander Hayes

Brilliant! I keep returning to generate new policies with my clients. A comprehensive and excellently presented service.

ToddT

Peak n Pedal Sports

Quick, painless and economical way for our little enterprise to be compliant!

Deary

Perfect. Easy. Acceptable price. Well written. Fast.

David

Saves me $1000 of dollars in Law fees. And helps me understand polices in an easy to digest way

Tarrise

A To Go Life

This was so easy. And for that I'm grateful. This is my first website and OMG the learning curve!!! This was exactly what we need to get started. I will be back for more!

Cheri Watson

I was looking for a quick and easy policy creator and this is it. You input your information and they simply apply it to the policy.

Gabriel

Are you kidding me?!?! This service is great! I'm a first time app builder and no one tells you about all the small stuff that you need. GetTerms had just what I needed to publish a solid privacy and terms of service statement.

Ellie Alvarado

What a time saver! This service took the hassle out of drafting Policy as well as Terms and Conditions out for myself. Thank you.

Matthew

Super quick and just what I needed, didn't have to spend more than 5 minutes creating and deploying my privacy policy which is how it should be.

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Shawn Wilson

Hammer Lane Industries

Super easy and simple to complete! Finally a policy generator that makes sense, is easy to use and friendly!

Tony Brown

Quick & Easy for my simple needs. And, completely free. No catches like other terms generators.

Regina McCarty

This was an amazing experience and they have great support!

Tarrise

A To Go Life

This was so easy. And for that I'm grateful. This is my first website and OMG the learning curve!!! This was exactly what we need to get started. I will be back for more!

Cheri Watson

I was looking for a quick and easy policy creator and this is it. You input your information and they simply apply it to the policy.

Gabriel

Are you kidding me?!?! This service is great! I'm a first time app builder and no one tells you about all the small stuff that you need. GetTerms had just what I needed to publish a solid privacy and terms of service statement.

Ellie Alvarado

What a time saver! This service took the hassle out of drafting Policy as well as Terms and Conditions out for myself. Thank you.

Matthew

Super quick and just what I needed, didn't have to spend more than 5 minutes creating and deploying my privacy policy which is how it should be.

Gregor McElvogue

Wow - too easy - you need to pay your handsome squirrels a bonus - they're working overtime!

Shawn Wilson

Hammer Lane Industries

Super easy and simple to complete! Finally a policy generator that makes sense, is easy to use and friendly!

Tony Brown

Quick & Easy for my simple needs. And, completely free. No catches like other terms generators.

Regina McCarty

This was an amazing experience and they have great support!

FAQs

A cookie scanner (sometimes referred to as a cookie checker tool) is a tool used to find and classify cookies and other tracking technologies hidden in a website's code. Any cookies the scanner finds are analyzed, identified and classified in a report. Typically, the report categorizes the cookies as either essential cookies, or non-essential cookies.
Yes, cookie scanners are sometimes referred to as a cookie checker tool, they are the same.
Yes, our Website Cookie Scanner is designed to be user-friendly and accessible to all. You don't need technical expertise to utilize the scanner and gain valuable insights into your website's cookies.
Yes, our scanner checks every page on your website.
Our cookie scanner will tell you the name of every cookie on your website, along with a description of what it does. It will also categorize each cookie as either essential or non-essential. You can use this to determine which cookies are non-essential thus requiring consent from your users before being used. This is essential for compliance with the GDPR, ePrivacy Directive and the CCPA.
This depends on the privacy regulations applicable to your website's visitors. For example, if your visitors are from the European Union, their privacy is protected by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive. These regulations generally mandate you to obtain informed and explicit user consent to use all non-essential cookies. To do this, you'll first need a cookie scan to find out which cookies your website uses.

Even if your visitors are mostly in countries without strict privacy laws, for the few that aren't you'll need to follow their country’s laws. Better safe than sorry, especially now you know how easy we make cookie compliance!