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Privacy policy and terms page checker

We find links to privacy and terms pages in your homepage (matching privacy, terms, tos, legal), fall back to /privacy and /terms, and check for a 2xx response.

Why it matters

Agents acting for a user check whether a site states how it handles data before sending the user to enter details. Missing legal pages look like a throwaway site. Privacy and terms are each worth 1 point.

How to fix it

1. Publish a privacy policy at /privacy and terms at /terms.
2. Link both from the footer of every page using clear link text such as "Privacy Policy".
3. Return 200 with the policy text in the HTML, not in a PDF viewer or a script.
4. Name the company, the date of the last update and a contact address.

How to verify

Run curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://example.com/privacy and the same for /terms.

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