Secure Privacy

How to Rescan Your Website in Secure Privacy – Update Cookie Detection and Compliance Status

Triggering a Secure Privacy website rescan updates your scan report, cookie declaration, and blocking configuration with the latest detected cookies and services — essential after adding new third-party scripts, updating your tag manager, or making changes to your website's tracking setup. This guide explains how to rescan in three steps.

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Secure Privacy Team
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Secure Privacy's cookie and service blocking relies on your most recent scan results. Whenever you add new third-party services, update your website, or change your tracking configuration, triggering a website rescan ensures your blocking rules and cookie declaration stay accurate and current.

Who Is This For?

  • Website administrators keeping their Secure Privacy scan report and cookie declaration up to date

  • Compliance teams verifying that cookie blocking reflects the latest services deployed on their site

  • Developers monitoring cookie and tracker detection after making changes to website scripts or tag configurations

How to Rescan Your Website in Secure Privacy

  1. Log in to your Secure Privacy account and select the domain you want to rescan.

  2. Click the Scan Report tab in the left sidebar.

  3. Click the Rescan Website button to initiate a new scan.

Secure Privacy Scan Report tab showing the Rescan Website button to trigger an updated cookie and service scan

Once the scan completes, your scan report, compliance score, cookie declaration, and blocking configuration will be updated to reflect the latest detected cookies and services on your domain.

Frequently Asked Questions

How often should I rescan my website?

Trigger a rescan whenever you make changes that could affect cookie or service detection — such as adding or removing third-party scripts, updating your tag manager configuration, installing new plugins, or changing marketing tools. A routine rescan at least quarterly is also recommended as part of ongoing compliance management.

How long does a website rescan take?

Most rescans complete within a few minutes. The exact time depends on the size and complexity of your website — larger sites with many pages or third-party scripts may take slightly longer. You can check the Scan Report tab for the updated results once the scan is finished.

Yes. Once the rescan is complete, your cookie declaration is automatically updated to reflect the newly detected cookies and services — ensuring your published declaration stays accurate without needing to make manual edits.

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