Cookie Scan and Categorization

With your Privacy Pillar Portal account, after successfully subscribing to a Cookie Consent plan, and assigning desired property under the plan to the subscription, you can now scan for cookies from the domain, and add cookies manually to the domain. Also, you can edit the details of existing cookies.

You can scan your domain for cookies. The results of the scan will be obtained category-wise and the same will be fetched on the cookie category page. When you publish the cookies, the details of the cookies will be displayed category-wise to the domain users through the cookie consent banner.

The following example of a cookie banner shows how the user can view the cookie details category-wise through the cookie content banner.


Follow the steps to scan the domain for cookies.

  1. On your account home page, in the menu bar, click the organization & property selector menu.
    The list of organizations with the properties appears.
  2. Select the property that you want to scan.
  3. In the Cookie Consent menu, click Cookie Scanner button.


    The Scanning Details page appears.
  4. Click Scan.
    The Scan Options appear. 

    Note: If your website has an authentication form, you can select Scan Behind Login. To learn about this feature, see Scan Behind Login.
  5. If you want to scan up to 10 pages of your domain, select Quick Scan.
    Or if you want to scan more pages, select Deep Scan.

    - Enter the number of pages to be scanned, and click Scan.
    - The scan process starts. 
    - When the scan is in progress, it shows the Scan Status as "Running". Once the scan is completed, the status will show "Completed".
    - After completion of the scan, the pie chart analytics of the scanned details also appear on the window.
  6. You can check the current and prior scan histories in the lower section of the page when the scan is finished.
  7. If your website contains Sub Domains, you can view the scan history of every Sub Domain by clicking the arrow on the left.
  8. Each time you place a scan, you can check to see if your website has any new/unpublished cookies. Click on the NEW/UNPUBLISHED COOKIES button to view the new cookies.
  9. After clicking the button you will be redirected to the Cookie Category page and view the New/Unpublished cookies in the Cookie Category data grid.
  10. Click on the Filter icon and observe that Publish Status filter is by default selected as No.
  11. You can publish the new cookies to your website by clicking on the Publish button.
Note: After completion of each scan, you will receive a scan report in the mail. You can download the scan report in PDF format.
  1. Once the cookie scan is done, the cookies are categorized automatically. To view the cookies, go to the Cookie Category page.
  2. In the table of cookies, if you want to add more columns to the table, in the Choose Columns list, select any columns to be included.

    The cookie details from the scan results are added on this page with the following details.
     > Cookie ID - unique ID generated for each cookie
     > Cookie name
     > Path -  the server path on which the cookie will be available
     > Category - any of the six categories
     > Domain - the website on which the cookie is available
     > Http Only - whether the cookie tagged as Http Only prevents client-side scripts from accessing data
     > Secure - whether the cookie flagged as Secured which may contain sensitive data
     > Website - domain or subdomain
     > Party - either first-party or third-party
     > Description of the cookie
     > Value of the cookie
     > Expires - the validity of the cookie
  3. Enter the cookie name in the Search by name field to view any cookie details by its name.
  4. To apply more search filters click on the filter
  5. The filtering parameter pop-up will appear.
  6. You can filter out the cookie details by Cookie Category, HTTP Only, Secure Only, Publish status, and Party.
  7. After entering all parameters click Apply. 
Note:

You can add a cookie manually to the domain.

  1. Go to the Cookie Category page. Click Add Cookie.
  2. Add Cookie details page will appear.
  3. Enter the Cookie Name, Domain, and Path.
  4. In the Category box, select the purpose of the cookie.
  5. Under Party type, select First-Party or Third-Party.
  6. Type any Description and any Value. You may enter any alphanumeric characters.
  7. Click Save.
Note:

Manage Cookies

You can edit or delete any existing cookies available on the property. 

Go to Cookie Category. It shows the analytics of cookies and the list of cookies scanned from the domain and manually added cookies to the domain.


The analytics of cookies of the domain is shown using two pie charts, that is Cookies by Purpose and Cookies by Party type (First-Party or Third-Party). When you hover over each slice of those pie charts, it shows the count of each cookie type.

  1. Go to Cookie Category.
  2. From the list of cookies, right to the cookie that you want to edit click .
  3. Edit Cookie Details page will appear.
  4. Change any details and click Save.

Bulk Edit Cookies

  1. Select the cookies you want to edit in bulk. Click Bulk Edit.
  2. Bulk Edit Cookies pop-up appears. Select the fields you want to update.
  3. Select the fields from the drop-down. You can select any field as per your requirement.
  4. Update Cookie Category, Domain, Path, and Party fields.
  5. Click Save.
  1. Go to Cookie Category, from the list of cookies, right to the cookie that you want to delete click .
  2. Click Yes to confirm.

You can export the cookie details of a property as a CSV file.

Import Cookies From a CSV File