Privacy Policy

Checks for privacy policy page linked from footer

Rule ID	eeat/privacy-policy
Category	E-E-A-T
Scope	Site-wide
Severity	warning
Weight	5/10

Solution

A privacy policy is required by law in many jurisdictions (GDPR, CCPA) and signals trustworthiness. Link it from your footer on every page. Cover: what data you collect, how you use it, third-party sharing, user rights, and contact for privacy concerns. Keep it updated when practices change.

Detection

A crawled page is credited as your privacy policy when its URL matches a known privacy slug (/privacy, /privacy-policy, /legal/privacy, and localized variants) or when its title or h1 reads “Privacy Policy” / “Privacy Notice” (a dated qualifier like “(Updated July 2026)” is fine), so a page with an unusual slug is still recognized.

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[rules]
disable = ["eeat/privacy-policy"]

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[rules]
disable = ["eeat/*"]

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[rules]
enable = ["eeat/privacy-policy"]
disable = ["*"]