Technology privacy

Silktide identifies the technologies your website uses, such as analytics, advertising, and payment services, and lists the ones that can affect your visitors' privacy. You review these and make sure your privacy policy covers them.

Why this matters

Third-party technologies see your visitors' data as a matter of course: analytics tools record their behaviour, advertising networks profile them across websites, and payment or chat providers handle data they type in. Privacy laws such as the expect your privacy policy to name the kinds of processing that happen and who does it.

Websites accumulate technologies over years - a marketing pixel here, a widget there - and the privacy policy rarely keeps up. This check gives you the list to reconcile against what your policy actually says.

How to fix it

This check gathers technologies for you to review; Silktide cannot judge whether your policy covers them adequately.

Review each technology listed. Confirm you know what it does and that you still use it - removing an abandoned tool is the best fix of all.
Check your privacy policy mentions the processing it performs, using the provider's own privacy policy (linked where known) to understand what data it collects.
Where a technology offers privacy options, enable them - see the Enhanced privacy check.
When a technology is expected and covered by your policy, approve the finding so it isn't raised again.

How Silktide tests this

Load each page in a real browser and identify the technologies in use from the page's code, scripts, and the requests it makes.
Assess each technology's potential privacy impact. Technologies rated as having a very low impact, such as design frameworks, are not reported.
Report the rest, with the version detected where known, the category the technology belongs to, a link to the provider's privacy policy where known, and a recommendation where one exists.

Troubleshooting

A technology I don't recognise is listed

Third-party tools often bundle further technologies of their own - a tag manager or page builder can pull in several services. Check with whoever maintains your website before assuming a detection is wrong.

A technology we removed is still detected

Detection is based on what pages actually load. Old scripts often survive in templates, tag managers, or individual pages after a tool is "switched off". The finding usually means removal wasn't complete.