Technical GDPR evidence audit

See what the website actually sends.

We record what tags, forms, storage, and connected vendors do before consent, after a choice, and after withdrawal. You get reproducible evidence, accountable technical owners, and a post-fix retest. The result stays within technical evidence and makes no claim of legal compliance.

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GDPR access controls and data handling review

The states we test

  • First visit before any consent choice
  • Reject, accept by purpose, and change or withdraw a choice
  • Tags, requests, cookies, local storage, embeds, and form submission in each state
  • A synthetic access or deletion trace when the connected systems are safely in scope

What the evidence pack contains

  • A route, form, tag, storage, endpoint, and vendor inventory for the agreed scope
  • Captured requests and storage behavior, with consent state and reproduction steps
  • Finding cards with the affected flow, technical owner, fix, and retest criterion
  • A decision register for questions that belong to the controller, DPO, or counsel
  • A second evidence pass showing which findings are closed, open, or accepted

Why a one-minute scan is not enough

An external scan can reveal an early tracker, cookie, or third-party request. It cannot reliably explain conditional tag-manager rules, authenticated forms, server-side forwarding, downstream deletion, or what changes after consent is withdrawn. We combine browser evidence with agreed configuration and workflow access, then state what we could and could not verify.

A clean boundary between engineering and legal judgment

  • We verify implementation behavior; we do not certify that a site is “GDPR compliant”
  • Your DPO or counsel decides lawful basis, notice wording, contracts, transfers, retention rules, DPIA need, and legal priority
  • We use synthetic test data by default and agree any privileged or production access before testing
  • The result is evidence that privacy, product, and engineering can review together

What changes the scope

Scope depends on the number of templates, markets, consent states, tags, forms, vendors, and connected systems; the availability of staging, logs, and test accounts; and whether remediation and retesting are included. The dedicated guide explains market price ranges and cost drivers.

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Start with an observable scope

Send the routes, markets, consent platform, tag manager, forms, and connected systems you want tested. We will define the states, access, synthetic records, evidence format, exclusions, and retest before work begins.

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Standards behind the questions

The GDPR sets principles, rights, data-protection-by-design, processor, record, security, and impact-assessment duties. We use those duties to structure evidence questions—not to turn an engineering test into a legal opinion.

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Data-subject-rights guidance

The EDPB overview informs the questions and boundaries for an agreed synthetic access or deletion workflow trace.

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FAQ

Questions before a GDPR technical audit.

What is the difference between a legal GDPR review and this technical audit?

A legal review interprets duties, lawful bases, notices, contracts, transfers, and risk. This audit observes what the website and agreed connected systems actually collect, send, store, and do after a consent change or synthetic rights request. We document implementation evidence for your DPO or counsel to assess.

Can an automated GDPR scanner replace this audit?

No scanner can see every authenticated, server-side, or downstream flow. A scan is a useful discovery input. The audit adds repeatable state changes, manual workflow tests, agreed configuration evidence, ownership, and a post-fix retest—and records any limit on what could be verified.

Does the audit prove that our website is GDPR compliant?

No. It proves only the technical behavior observed within the agreed scope and test conditions. Your controller, DPO, or legal adviser remains responsible for legal interpretation and decisions. The evidence pack makes those decisions and the engineering work more concrete.

Are remediation and retesting included?

Every finding includes a technical fix and retest criterion. Implementation can be handled by your team or scoped separately with us. The proposal states whether a second evidence pass is included, so “fixed” means retested rather than assumed.

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