Documentation › Dashboard guide › Cookies and scanning
The Cookies tab holds the list of cookies your website stores. We scan the website regularly and add newly discovered cookies to the list automatically.
The list is used to generate the cookie policy that the visitor sees in the bar and on the data processing page. Legislation requires the visitor to know which cookies the website uses, what they are for and how long they last. That is why it makes sense to keep the list complete.
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Select additional cookie | Adds a cookie from our database, including a ready-made description. It is saved immediately. |
| Add Cookie Manually | A form with six fields. The cookie is saved only for your account. |
| Rescan website | An immediate scan. Do not leave the page while it runs. |
When the scan finishes, it shows how many new cookies were added and, if relevant, a warning that some of the cookies found have no definition and need to be completed manually.
We go through your website in a browser, click “accept all” ourselves (we recognise the twelve most widespread cookie bars) and read which cookies the website actually sets. The scan can take up to two minutes.
The scan requires a publicly reachable website. It does not work in these cases:
.localIn that case, add the cookies manually.
The scan only finds what actually runs on the website at the time of the scan. If you have services that run only on some pages or only in some situations, go through the list and add them manually.