Legal pages monitoring — know your privacy policy, terms and imprint are still there after every update.
With legal pages monitoring, Relvato opens your home page — and your shop and checkout when you have them — in a real browser and finds the links to your privacy policy, terms, imprint, cookie policy, accessibility statement and contact page, in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian or Dutch. It follows each link and checks that the page loads and has real text on it. A required page that's missing, broken or empty is reported as an issue — so a theme switch that drops the footer links, or a migration that turns /privacy-policy/ into a 404, is caught the week it happens, not when a customer, a competitor or a regulator notices.
- ✓A privacy policy is linked from your key pages, loads and has text — on every site
- ✓Terms (terms of service, AGB, conditions of sale) are linked and reachable when the site sells online
- ✓An imprint (Impressum, legal notice) is linked and reachable on German, Austrian and Swiss sites
- ✓The imprint shows an email address and a postal address
- ✓No required legal link leads to an error, a “page not found” or an empty page
- ✓No leftover link to the closed EU ODR platform (ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr)
- ✓Cookie policy, accessibility statement and contact page: listed as found or not found
Legal texts are written once and rarely touched, but the links to them aren't. They live in a footer widget, a menu or a page-builder template, and updates rewrite those: a new theme ships its own footer, a builder update resets a template, a site moves from staging without its imprint page. In the EU a privacy notice is required wherever personal data is collected; in Germany and Austria a missing or unreachable imprint can bring a fine or a cease-and-desist letter; a shop needs its terms where the customer orders. And since the EU's ODR platform closed on 20 July 2025, the link to it that many shops still carry points to a service that no longer exists.
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What a website has to publish — privacy notice, imprint, terms, accessibility statement — in the EU, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the UK and California, and what changed in 2025.
- Relvato loads your home page, plus your shop and checkout pages when the site has them, in a real browser and collects the links on them. It recognises legal pages by link text and address in six languages — “Privacy policy”, “Datenschutzerklärung”, “Aviso legal”, “Mentions légales”, “Algemene voorwaarden” and so on. No plugin is needed.
- It follows each link and checks that the page answers with HTTP success and has real text on it — not an empty template, not a “page not found” dressed up as a normal page. A privacy policy is required on every site, terms when the site sells online, and an imprint on German, Austrian and Swiss sites, which Relvato recognises from the domain and the site's language. On an imprint it also looks for an email address and a postal address.
- A required page that's missing, broken or empty is reported as an issue, and so is a leftover link to the closed EU ODR platform. A missing email or postal address on the imprint is a warning. The cookie policy, accessibility statement and contact page are listed as found or not found. It runs weekly, and on WordPress also after core, theme, plugin and WooCommerce updates.
Does this tell me my legal pages are correct?
No. Relvato doesn't judge the legal quality of the text — whether your privacy notice names every purpose and legal basis, whether your terms would hold up, whether your imprint is complete for your legal form. That needs a lawyer, or a legal-text service you keep up to date. What Relvato does is make sure the pages you have stay linked, reachable and not empty, and that your imprint still shows an email and a postal address, after every change to the site.
Why would a legal page disappear?
Rarely because someone deleted it. A new theme ships its own footer without your links, a menu or page-builder update resets a template, a permalink change breaks the old address, a legal-text plugin is deactivated and its shortcode renders nothing, or a site goes live from staging without the page. The text still exists in the dashboard; visitors just can't reach it.
Why does it flag a link to the EU ODR platform?
Regulation (EU) 2024/3228 repealed the rule that made online traders link to the EU's online dispute resolution platform, and the platform closed on 20 July 2025. Traders were expected to remove the link by then. A link to a closed platform points customers to a complaint route that no longer exists, so Relvato reports it wherever it still appears.
How does it decide my site needs an imprint?
From the domain and the language of the site: a German, Austrian or Swiss site is expected to have one, and a missing imprint there is reported as an issue. On other sites an imprint or legal notice is listed if Relvato finds one, but a missing one isn't reported.
Does it need the WordPress plugin, and what does it cost?
No plugin is needed — it reads the public pages of any website. With the WordPress plugin connected it also runs after core, theme, plugin and WooCommerce updates, which is when footers and menus most often change. Legal pages monitoring is on every plan, Free included. On the Free plan you run it yourself or weekly; Pro also re-runs it after updates.
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