A cookie banner alone doesn’t mean compliance.
Most organisations believe their consent management platform/CMP handles privacy compliance alone. It does not. A CMP manages consent collection – it doesn’t validate if your website actually respects consent. Network requests, tracking pixels, fingerprinting, and third-party scripts can share personal information, even when a CMP is in place.
Under ePrivacy Article 5.3, any non-essential technology that stores or accesses information on a user’s device requires prior, informed, active consent. The gap between what the CMP promises and what the website actually does is the regulatory risk we proactively record.
Traditional compliance tools scan for cookies and stop there. They require manual pre-configuration, miss network requests entirely, and produce reports that flag violations without explaining how to fix them. Irregular scanning cycles mean new violations go undetected for months.
Cressive Privacy Compliance is a website technical privacy audit tool that goes far beyond cookies. Our automated scanning detects every form of online tracking – cookies, network requests, pixels, beacons, fingerprinting — classifies each against known databases, and with AI-assisted analysis quantifies compliance risk with an insightful compliance score.
“You can’t optimise what isn’t legal. Privacy compliance is a foundation – everything else, from SEO to conversion, is built on top of it. CMOs know this. And customer trust is a foundation of brand equity. CEOs know this.” – Richard Game
Our AIM Framework for Privacy Compliance Automation
Cressive Privacy Compliance implements a structured AIM framework: Audit-Implementation-Monitoring, addressing the complete compliance lifecycle. Privacy teams can proactively quantify risk assessment and automate diagnostics. Technical teams get specific remediation guidance to expedite the fix to every violation identified. Marketing teams, as website owners, get compliance reported as a measurable KPI alongside SEO and site performance, with clear visibility over the properties they’re responsible for.
This framework operates at portfolio scale – whether you manage one website or a thousand – with automation the solution to enterprise scale compliance.
Audit – privacy teams need to know exactly where the risk is, and why
We simulate real user consent flows – pre-consent, accept, and reject – and detect every form of online tracking on websites site, not just cookies.
Each element is classified by vendor, type, and risk contribution, across both consent phases. Violations are grouped under root causes, so teams sees systemic issues rather than hundreds of individual flags.
The output is a quantified compliance score that privacy and risk teams can act on immediately.
Implementation – tech teams need to know exactly what to fix, and how.
Most compliance tools flag violations without explaining how to fix them. We generate remediation guidance specific to your tag management solution and CMP implementation – identifying the root cause, the affected URLs, and the child network requests involved.
Each fix includes step-by-step instructions, estimated time, and the tools required.
At portfolio scale, common deviation analysis means one fix can resolve the same issue across dozens of sites.
Monitoring – websites may change daily. Compliance needs to keep up.
Cressive monitoring tracks compliance status across portfolios. Enterprise scale at agile speed.
Each site shows its current compliance outcome, overall score, and consent flow status at a glance.
Automated alerting notifies responsible teams when status changes, so new violations are caught as soon as they appear – not by a customer, not at the next internal audit.
How Cressive Privacy Compliance compares
| Feature | ✓ Cressive Privacy Compliance | Typical Alternatives |
|---|---|---|
| What’s scanned? | ✓All online tracking: cookies, network requests, pixels, fingerprinting | ✗Cookies only or limited tracking types |
| Setup required | ✓None — automatic discovery and classification | ✗Manual configuration and pre-classification required |
| Risk reporting | ✓Quantified compliance score, risk-weighted by violation type | ✗Pass/fail or basic categorisation only |
| Remediation | ✓Stack-specific guidance with step-by-step instructions and time estimates | ✗Violation flags only — no remediation support |
| Portfolio management | ✓Compliance tracked over time, grouped by business unit, geography, and priority | ✗No portfolio-level tracking or grouping |
| Portfolio remediation | ✓Cross-portfolio deviation analysis — one fix applied across all affected sites | ✗No cross-site remediation support |
| Monitoring & alerting | ✓RACI-based routing — alerts go to the right teams (privacy, marketing, IT, agencies) per site | ✗Generic notifications, no role-based routing |
What this looks like in practice
We monitor privacy compliance across enterprise website portfolios including healthcare, pharmaceutical, and technology organisations.
Pricing
Audit
FREE in a direct consultation
Single page compliance assessment across all consent states. Snapshot exactly where you stand right now.
- Full tracking detection and compliance score
- Risk breakdown by key violation type
AIM* (as SaaS)
Starts at £100 /month
*Auditing, Implementation & Monitoring. Complete compliance lifecycle for your website portfolio.
- Compliance auditing at scale
- Remediation guidance for violations to expedite fixes
- Automated scanning and alerts with full reporting status
AIM + Consulting
Contact for Pricing
Compliance automation through AIM, paired with a hands-on expert service & support ensuring delivery.
- AIM Compliance Automation
- Compliance strategy and expert implementation service
- Industry and competitor benchmarks for comparison
- End-to-end analytics and compliance management
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