COOKIE POLICY
Effective Date: September 7, 2026
Last Updated: September 7, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how SiteLaws.com (“SiteLaws,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit SiteLaws.com, use our website compliance risk scanner, purchase or use a subscription, create or access an account, receive reports, or interact with other features, content, communications, and services we provide.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, retain, disclose, and protect personal information more generally.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on a computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when a person visits a website. Cookies allow websites to recognize a browser or device, remember preferences, maintain sessions, support account access, process transactions, measure website activity, improve performance, and provide relevant content.
Cookies may collect or store information such as:
A unique identifier
Browser type and settings
Device type and operating system
Internet Protocol address
Approximate location derived from an Internet Protocol address
Referring and exit pages
Pages viewed
Links selected
Dates and times of visits
Session activity
Account authentication status
Cookie and privacy preferences
Transaction or subscription status
Advertising interactions
Website errors and performance information
Some information collected through cookies may constitute personal information or personal data under applicable law.
2. Similar Technologies
We may also use technologies that perform functions similar to cookies. These technologies may include:
Pixels and web beacons
Tags
Tracking scripts
Software development kits
Local storage
Session storage
Embedded content
Device identifiers
Server logs
Application programming interfaces
Link-tracking technologies
Fraud-detection technologies
References to “cookies” in this policy generally include these similar technologies unless the context indicates otherwise.
3. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are placed or controlled directly by SiteLaws.com. They may support functions such as account access, security, form submissions, scanner operation, subscriptions, preferences, and website performance.
Third-party cookies are placed or controlled by outside service providers whose services appear on or support SiteLaws.com. These providers may assist with functions such as payment processing, analytics, advertising, website hosting, security, customer support, video delivery, email communications, or embedded content.
Third parties may collect information through their technologies and process that information according to their own privacy policies. SiteLaws does not control every aspect of a third party’s independent data practices.
4. Session and Persistent Cookies
Session cookies generally remain active only during a browser session and are deleted when the browser closes.
Persistent cookies remain on a device for a defined period or until deleted. Persistent cookies may remember preferences, recognize returning visitors, support security, measure recurring use, or maintain certain account settings.
The duration of a particular cookie depends on its purpose and the settings established by SiteLaws or the applicable third-party provider.
5. Categories of Cookies We May Use
A. Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies support essential website operations. The website or a requested service may not function properly without them.
These cookies may be used to:
Load and display the website
Maintain secure sessions
Authenticate registered users
protect accounts, forms, and transactions
Prevent fraud, abuse, spam, and unauthorized activity
Balance website traffic
Store privacy and cookie choices
Remember items associated with checkout
Process forms and service requests
Operate the website compliance risk scanner
Generate, retrieve, or deliver requested reports
Maintain subscription and account functionality
Diagnose technical failures
Where applicable law permits, strictly necessary cookies may be used without prior consent because they are required to provide a website feature or service requested by the visitor.
B. Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow SiteLaws.com to remember choices and provide enhanced features.
These cookies may be used to remember:
Language or regional preferences
Display and accessibility settings
Previously entered form information
Account preferences
Saved scanner information
Communication preferences
Customized website features
Disabling functional cookies may prevent certain preferences or enhanced features from working properly.
C. Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics and performance cookies help us understand how visitors find, navigate, and use SiteLaws.com.
These cookies may help us measure:
Numbers of visitors and visits
Frequently viewed pages
Referring websites or campaigns
General geographic regions
Device and browser categories
Navigation paths
Feature usage
Scanner usage
Report activity
Page-loading performance
Errors and interrupted sessions
Subscription conversion activity
General website engagement
We may use this information to maintain SiteLaws.com, understand visitor interests, improve content, troubleshoot errors, evaluate marketing, and improve our services. Where required, these cookies will be used only after appropriate consent.
D. Advertising and Targeting Cookies
We or our advertising partners may use advertising or targeting cookies to measure advertising performance, limit repeated advertisements, create or associate audiences, and present advertising believed to be more relevant.
These technologies may collect information about activity on SiteLaws.com and, depending on the provider, activity across other websites, applications, or services. Such activity may constitute targeted advertising, cross-context behavioral advertising, sharing, or a sale of personal information under certain privacy laws.
Where required, we will request consent before using these technologies or provide a method to opt out. SiteLaws does not intend this policy to state that every advertising activity described here is currently used. This section applies when such technologies are implemented.
E. Social Media and Embedded Content Cookies
SiteLaws.com may contain videos, social-media features, maps, fonts, widgets, external forms, or other content supplied by third parties. Those third parties may place cookies or receive information when embedded content loads or when a visitor interacts with that content.
A third party may recognize a visitor when the visitor is signed into an account maintained by that provider. The provider’s privacy and cookie policies govern its independent collection and use of information.
F. Payment and Subscription Cookies
When a visitor purchases a subscription or another service, SiteLaws and its payment or commerce providers may use cookies to:
Maintain a checkout session
Process a payment
Confirm transaction status
Prevent fraudulent transactions
Remember subscription or account status
Support billing and account management
Meet security, accounting, and legal obligations
Payment providers may collect payment and device information directly. SiteLaws may not receive or store complete payment-card details when a third-party payment processor handles the transaction.
G. Security and Fraud-Prevention Cookies
Security providers may use cookies and related technologies to identify automated requests, malicious activity, unauthorized access, suspicious transactions, account attacks, spam, and other threats.
These technologies may evaluate browser characteristics, device information, network information, request patterns, and website interactions. Certain security technologies may be treated as strictly necessary when required to protect SiteLaws, its visitors, or its services.
6. Cookies Used With the Website Compliance Scanner
When someone uses a free or paid website compliance scan, cookies and similar technologies may support:
Submission of the website address being scanned
Maintenance of the scan session
Prevention of duplicate, automated, or abusive requests
Application of scan limits
Association of a scan with an account or subscription
Delivery or retrieval of a report
Preservation of entered information in the browser
Technical troubleshooting
Measurement of scanner performance and usage
Verification of eligibility for paid features
Fraud and security monitoring
Information entered into the scanner may remain stored in the visitor’s browser until the visitor deletes browser data, depending on the feature and browser settings. Clearing cookies, local storage, browsing data, or site data may remove saved information.
Our Privacy Policy provides additional information concerning scan submissions, reports, accounts, retention, and the processing of personal information.
7. Current Cookie Inventory
The particular cookies used by SiteLaws.com may change as we add, remove, update, or replace website features, plugins, hosting services, security services, analytics systems, payment providers, advertising services, and other technologies.
When available, the Cookie Settings, Privacy Choices, or similarly labeled link or tool on SiteLaws.com provides the current cookie categories and available controls. That tool may identify:
Cookie or technology name
Provider
Purpose
Category
Duration
Whether the technology is first-party or third-party
The information displayed through that tool is incorporated into this Cookie Policy by reference.
Some technologies may not appear in an automated inventory immediately. We may periodically scan and review SiteLaws.com to improve the accuracy of the inventory.
8. Your Cookie Choices
Depending on location and applicable law, a visitor may be able to accept, reject, or customize nonessential cookies through the cookie banner or preference tool.
Visitors may change their selections by using the Cookie Settings, Privacy Choices, or similarly labeled link made available on SiteLaws.com.
Rejecting or withdrawing consent will not ordinarily disable strictly necessary technologies. A changed preference generally applies to future activity and may not reverse processing that lawfully occurred before the preference changed.
Cookie choices may be associated with a particular browser and device. A visitor may need to repeat those choices when:
Using a different browser
Using a different device
Using a private browsing session
Clearing cookies or browser storage
Preventing preference cookies from being saved
SiteLaws will seek to make withdrawing consent as easy as granting consent where applicable law requires.
9. Browser Controls
Most browsers allow users to view, block, or delete cookies through browser settings. A browser may also provide controls for third-party cookies, tracking prevention, local storage, permissions, and site-specific data.
Blocking all cookies may prevent SiteLaws.com from remembering preferences or providing essential functionality. Account access, saved inputs, checkout, subscriptions, scan requests, report delivery, and security controls may be affected.
Visitors should consult their browser’s help documentation for current instructions.
10. Global Privacy Control and Universal Opt-Out Signals
Some browsers and extensions allow users to transmit a Global Privacy Control or another legally recognized universal opt-out signal.
Where applicable law requires, SiteLaws will treat a recognized signal as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, targeted advertising, or comparable processing for the browser or device transmitting the signal.
A signal may not automatically identify a visitor across different browsers, devices, or accounts. When legally permitted, we may offer an option to associate an opt-out choice with an account.
SiteLaws does not treat a general “Do Not Track” signal as an enforceable preference unless applicable law requires otherwise. Industry responses to traditional Do Not Track signals remain inconsistent.
11. Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising
Some privacy laws define “sale” broadly enough to include transferring personal information in exchange for money or another valuable benefit. Certain disclosures involving advertising technologies may also qualify as “sharing” or targeted advertising even when money is not exchanged.
If SiteLaws engages in activity treated as a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising under applicable law, eligible visitors may exercise available opt-out rights through the cookie-preference tool, a Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link, a Your Privacy Choices link, or another method described in our Privacy Policy.
SiteLaws will not discriminate unlawfully against a visitor for exercising an applicable privacy right.
12. Consent for Visitors Outside the United States
Visitors from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction requiring prior consent may be asked to consent before SiteLaws uses nonessential cookies.
When required:
Nonessential cookies will not be activated before valid consent
Cookie categories and purposes will be explained
Consent choices will not be inferred solely from silence or continued browsing
Visitors may reject nonessential cookies
Visitors may withdraw or change consent
Consent records may be retained to document the choice
The website will periodically request renewed consent when appropriate
The availability and operation of consent controls may depend on the visitor’s location and applicable law.
13. Third-Party Websites and Services
SiteLaws.com may link to websites, reports, platforms, payment pages, or services operated by third parties. Selecting an external link may allow the third party to collect information and place cookies according to its own practices.
This Cookie Policy does not govern cookies placed solely through a third-party website or service that SiteLaws does not control. Visitors should review the applicable third party’s privacy and cookie policies.
14. Email Technologies
Emails sent by or for SiteLaws may contain tracking pixels or coded links that help determine whether an email was delivered, opened, or selected. These technologies may also help us measure communications and improve email content.
Recipients may be able to limit certain email tracking by disabling remote-image loading in their email application. Unsubscribing from promotional email does not necessarily prevent transactional, billing, security, account, subscription, or service communications.
15. Data Retention
Cookie information is retained for periods appropriate to the purpose for which the technology is used. Retention periods may depend on:
Whether a cookie is session-based or persistent
Security requirements
Account or subscription status
Consent documentation requirements
Analytics configurations
Contractual obligations
Legal requirements
Dispute resolution needs
We may retain aggregated or deidentified information for longer periods when permitted by law.
16. Children’s Privacy
SiteLaws.com and its services are not directed to children under 18. We do not knowingly use cookies to create advertising profiles of children under 18.
If we learn that information from a child was collected through cookies or similar technologies contrary to applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to delete or appropriately restrict that information.
A parent or legal guardian who believes a child provided personal information through SiteLaws.com should contact us using the method described below.
17. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect information collected through cookies and similar technologies.
No website, browser, network, or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure. Visitors should use appropriate browser security, protect account credentials, install current software updates, and avoid accessing sensitive accounts through untrusted devices or networks.
18. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when our technologies, services, providers, practices, or legal obligations change.
The revised policy will be posted on SiteLaws.com with an updated “Last Updated” date. We may provide additional notice when required by law or when a change materially affects visitor choices.
Continued use of SiteLaws.com after an update does not constitute consent to nonessential cookies where applicable law requires an affirmative choice.
19. Relationship to Other SiteLaws Policies
This Cookie Policy supplements the SiteLaws Privacy Policy. If a conflict exists concerning cookies or similar technologies, this Cookie Policy will govern that subject unless applicable law requires otherwise.
The SiteLaws Terms and Conditions govern general use of SiteLaws.com and its services.
20. Contact SiteLaws
Questions, requests, or complaints concerning this Cookie Policy or SiteLaws cookie practices may be submitted through the contact form or privacy-request method provided on SiteLaws.com.
Please include “Cookie Policy Request” in the subject or first line of the communication. Do not include passwords, complete payment-card numbers, government identification numbers, or other highly sensitive information.
21. Important Notice
Cookie requirements vary according to location, technology, business practices, and the laws that apply to a particular organization. SiteLaws may revise its cookie controls and disclosures as its services develop and legal requirements change.