Free CCPA compliance checker

An automated checker is precise on the observable mechanics, and under the CCPA those mechanics are most of the enforcement story. It watches real network traffic to see which third-party ad pixels (Meta, Google, TikTok) and which analytics calls (GA4) fire before a visitor consents, sends a Global Privacy Control signal and reports whether your site's behavior changes, looks for a 'Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information' pathway, and flags consent-banner dark patterns like a missing equally prominent reject option or pre-checked boxes. Those are the exact failure modes the first public CCPA enforcement turned on.

It cannot judge everything. Whether your business meets the CCPA's revenue or data-volume thresholds, whether a given data flow legally counts as a 'sale' or 'share,' and how your back office actually fulfills consumer requests are not things a scan can see. Complidar reports what is observable on the page and labels what needs a person, so a clean automated pass never reads as full compliance. The checker is the first pass, not the last word, and it does not replace counsel.

The CCPA pattern that gets punished is mechanical, which means it is visible from outside, which means someone else can find it on your site as easily as you can. In re Sephora ($1.2M, 2022), the first public CCPA enforcement, turned on ad trackers treated as a 'sale' without disclosure and a site that ignored the Global Privacy Control signal. Statutory penalties run $2,500 per violation and $7,500 per intentional violation, and each affected consumer interaction can count, which is how the numbers compound past the headline figure. Running the checker yourself means you see the same trackers and signals a regulator's office or a plaintiff's firm would see, and can close the cheapest, most-cited gaps before they are used against you.