When checking for the cookies used on the entire website, it is not enough to just check the cookies on the homepage of the website. To check cookies in Chrome, right-click on the website and click on Inspect. This is to ensure that there are no cookies set on the browser from any other website. Please note that to check the cookies used on a specific website or webpage, load the website/page on a private window where there are no other websites loaded before. To check cookies manually, below are the methods for browsers Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. If you want to see how cookies are set on your device in action, click on the banner below. You can read more about cookies in detail here.
This article details how you can manually check for cookies being used on your website, or any website for that matter.įor compliance with the law, you need to know what cookies are being used on the website and what they are used for. It is also important to know what type of cookies they are and classify them accordingly in order to determine which of them need consent to be used.
Checking cookies used on your website is an important step to comply with the GDPR.
