Policy Compliance Checker
Paste your privacy policy below and get an instant GDPR, CCPA, and best-practice analysis with actionable suggestions.
What This Tool Checks
Our free compliance checker analyzes your privacy policy or terms of service against real-world regulatory requirements and industry best practices. The analysis covers GDPR compliance (data subject rights, lawful basis for processing, data retention), CCPA compliance (right to know, right to delete, opt-out of sale), and general best practices (contact information, cookie disclosure, third-party sharing).
Each policy is scored across multiple categories, with individual checks for specific clauses and provisions that regulatory authorities expect to find. The tool also measures readability using the Flesch Reading Ease score — because a privacy policy that users can't understand doesn't truly provide informed consent.
All analysis happens entirely in your browser — your policy text is never sent to any server. This means your confidential legal documents remain private and secure throughout the entire process.
What the compliance checker looks for
Paste the text of an existing privacy policy and the checker scans it for the disclosures that GDPR and CCPA/CPRA expect a policy to contain. It is a pattern check, not a legal opinion: it tells you which required topics are missing or vague so you know what to fix, and it never uploads your text anywhere — the analysis runs in your browser.
- Identity and contact details of the data controller, including an EU representative or DPO where one is required.
- What is collected and why — categories of personal data, the purpose of each, and the legal basis (consent, contract, legitimate interest) that GDPR Article 13 requires you to name.
- Sharing and transfers — third parties, processors, and whether data leaves the EEA or is "sold" or "shared" in the CCPA sense.
- User rights and how to exercise them — access, deletion, correction, portability, the right to object, and for California residents the "Do Not Sell or Share" and "Limit Use of Sensitive Information" links.
- Retention, security and children — how long data is kept, how it is protected, and whether the service is directed at under-13s (COPPA) or under-16s (GDPR consent age).
How to read the result
Each missing item links to the clause you need. A policy that passes every check is not automatically compliant — the wording still has to be true for your business — but a policy that fails several checks is almost certainly incomplete. The most common gaps we see are a missing legal basis for processing, no retention period, and no named way to submit a rights request.
If the checker finds more than a few gaps, it is usually faster to regenerate the policy with the privacy policy generator than to patch the old one clause by clause.