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Data and privacy · Privacy counsel, marketing lead, web team

Audit a cookie banner against the tracking rules

A retailer's site sets forty-one trackers and its cookie policy describes eleven. The audit reads the tracker inventory against the banner behaviour and the policy, and reports where the three do not match.

First draft
A tracker-by-tracker assessment comes back from one run, before the site refresh goes live.

The problem

Cookie compliance fails in the gap between what the marketing stack does and what the policy says it does. Trackers get added by tag manager without anyone updating the policy, analytics fires before consent, and the reject option sits two clicks deeper than accept. None of this is visible from reading the policy alone.
  1. Step 01 of 05

    Load the three sources

    The tracker inventory exported from the site, the banner configuration and the published cookie policy go on one matter.

    Matters · Project Halcyon · SPA warranties and disclosureOpen

    Project Halcyon: SPA warranties and disclosure

    Buy-side warranty review, disclosure analysis and cited due-diligence grid.

    Client
    Halcyon Bidco Ltd
    Reference
    WC-2026-0412
    Practice area
    Corporate / M&A
    Jurisdiction
    England and Wales
    Responsible partner
    E. Vance
    No conflict check on file.

    Chat, on this matter

    Compare warranties with the disclosure letter.

    Three high-priority exceptions require action: the unregistered charge, the change-of-control right and the tribunal claim.

    Send a message… (@ to mention tools)BalancedPrepare for
    1. 25 Aug

      Disclosure exceptions matrix

      Chat

    2. 21 Aug

      Disclosure exceptions matrix

      Run · completed · 560 credits

    3. 18 Aug

      Project Halcyon: Disclosure Letter

      Document · indexed

    4. 16 Aug

      Project Halcyon: Share Purchase Agreement

      Document · indexed

    5. 4 Aug

      Matter opened

      Opened

  2. Step 02 of 05

    Build the tracker columns

    Columns cover purpose, whether the tracker is strictly necessary, when it fires relative to consent, whether the policy names it and how long it persists.

    Document Review · Hartwell matter · contract screen0/12 filled
    DocumentParties and effective dateTEXTTerm and renewalTEXTLimitation of liabilityTEXTGoverning lawTEXT
    nda-hartwell-meridian.txt
    saas-agreement-northgate.txt
    board-minutes-hartwell.txt
  3. Step 03 of 05

    Run the inventory

    Every tracker is answered against every column, and the thirty that appear in no policy entry are marked as undisclosed rather than assumed to be covered by a general description.

    Document Review · Hartwell matter · contract screen0/12 filled
    DocumentParties and effective dateTEXTTerm and renewalTEXTLimitation of liabilityTEXTGoverning lawTEXT
    nda-hartwell-meridian.txt
    saas-agreement-northgate.txt
    board-minutes-hartwell.txt
  4. Step 04 of 05

    Read the pre-consent firing

    Nine non-essential trackers fire before any choice is made, which is the finding that has to be fixed before anything else is worth doing.

    Document Review · Hartwell matter · contract screen0/12 filled
    DocumentParties and effective dateTEXTTerm and renewalTEXTLimitation of liabilityTEXTGoverning lawTEXT
    nda-hartwell-meridian.txt
    saas-agreement-northgate.txt
    board-minutes-hartwell.txt
  5. Step 05 of 05

    Give the web team the fix list

    The Audit & Risk Agent produces a ranked remediation list with the banner change, the tag manager change and the policy rewrite separated by owner.

    Agents · Contract Agent · New runMatter: Northgate · senior associate hire

    Agent

    Jurisdiction

    Prepare for

    Deliver as

    Instruction

    What should the agent look for?

    Documents

    Drop a contract, or pick one from the matter

    Also on the matter

    • Offer_letter_v3.pdf2 pages
    • Staff_handbook_2025.docx61 pages
    • Board_minute_14_Aug.pdf3 pages
    Platform model · zero data retention · audit register on

What comes back

A document, not a transcript.

  • A tracker inventory with purpose, timing and disclosure status for each of the forty-one.
  • The nine trackers firing before consent, listed first as the finding that blocks everything else.
  • The mismatch between the inventory and the published policy, quantified rather than described.
  • A remediation list split between the web team, the marketing team and the legal team.

Authorities it checks

  • Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, reg 6
  • UK GDPR, Art 6
Every source it may cite

What it does not do

  • It does not scan the live site. It works from the inventory export supplied and states what that export covers.
  • It does not change the banner, the tag manager or the policy.
  • It does not decide whether a tracker is strictly necessary where that depends on how the site actually uses it; it asks.

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