Your website may be breaking the law - right now.

Consider the alternative. A GDPR fine for missing cookie consent has reached €750,000 for a single publisher. Even small businesses have been fined €3,000-25,000 for the exact same issue. An ADA lawsuit settlement averages $25,000 - before legal fees. A Veritron Compliance Group audit costs a fraction of any of these outcomes and puts you in a fundamentally stronger legal position. It gives you a complete roadmap so your developer knows exactly what to fix and in what order - demonstrating proactive compliance efforts that regulators take into account when determining whether to pursue enforcement action.

You receive a comprehensive written PDF report - typically 15 or more pages - covering every compliance dimension of your website. Every issue is explained in plain language, referenced to the specific law or standard it violates, and accompanied by a developer-ready recommendation that can be acted on immediately. The report also includes a priority action plan with specific timeframes so you know exactly what to address first.

Please note: The audit is a written report delivered by email - it does not include a presentation or walkthrough meeting. The report is written specifically so that you and your web developer can act on it without requiring further explanation. If you would like a one-hour consultation call to walk through the findings with a Veritron Compliance Group specialist, this is available as an add-on for $199. Simply mention this when submitting your audit request.

No. The report is written in plain language specifically so that business owners can understand every finding without specialist knowledge. The recommendations are written so your web developer can act on them directly without needing further briefing. Our goal is to give you clarity, not more confusion.

No - and this is the most common and most dangerous misconception. Under GDPR and the EAA, the legally responsible party is always the business owner - not the web developer, not the agency. A developer who builds a non-compliant site does not relieve you of your obligations. Regulators will come to you, not your agency, and you will be held responsible for what is on your website.

GDPR applies to every business that collects personal data from EU or EEA visitors - regardless of size, revenue or number of employees. If your website has a contact form, uses Google Analytics or has a newsletter signup, GDPR applies to you. A Montessori school in Spain was fined €3,000 for having no cookie banner. The EAA has a microenterprise exemption for businesses under 10 employees and €2M turnover - but GDPR does not.

Every audit is conducted manually by a specialist - not an automated scanner. This takes time but delivers far more accurate and actionable findings than any automated tool. Delivery times are 5-7 business days for the Essential package, 7-10 days for Professional and 14-21 days for Enterprise. You will be notified when your report is ready.

You share the report with your web developer or agency. Every finding includes a specific technical recommendation written so a developer can act on it immediately - no further briefing required. The priority action plan tells them exactly what to fix first and in what timeframe. Most Critical and High priority issues can be resolved in a single focused developer session. Once the fixes are implemented your legal exposure is dramatically reduced.

Every type. E-commerce, professional services, hospitality, healthcare, legal, financial services, SaaS, media - any business with a website that serves EU or US customers. We have audited sites built on Shopify, WordPress, Webflow, Squarespace, custom builds and enterprise platforms. If your website collects data or serves EU or US visitors, GDPR and accessibility obligations apply to you regardless of your industry, your size or where your business is registered.

Almost certainly yes. Having a cookie banner is not the same as having a compliant one. The most consistent finding in our audits is a banner that exists but does not actually block cookies before consent is given, has no genuine opt-out option, or fires analytics before the user responds. A banner that says "by continuing to browse you accept our use of cookies" has been explicitly rejected by European regulators as invalid consent. Our audit tells you whether what you have actually meets the legal standard - not just whether something is visually present on the page.

No. We audit your publicly accessible website only - everything visible to a normal visitor in a browser. You do not need to share login credentials, CMS access, developer tools or any backend information. Simply provide your website URL when submitting your audit request and we handle everything from there.

A new page, a new plugin, a new third-party tool or a site redesign can introduce new compliance issues at any time - without anyone on your team realising it. One audit gives you a complete picture of where you stand today. Our monthly monitoring service ensures you are always informed going forward - catching new issues before they become liabilities rather than discovering them after a complaint has been filed.

It depends on the framework. GDPR fines are issued by national Data Protection Authorities - independent government regulators in each EU and EEA country. Examples include the CNIL in France, the AEPD in Spain, the DPC in Ireland and the UODO in Poland. These are government bodies that investigate complaints, run proactive scans and issue fines entirely independently - no court, no lawyer and no complaint from a customer is required for them to open an investigation.

European Accessibility Act enforcement is handled by national market surveillance authorities - government agencies designated by each EU member state. France, Denmark, Sweden and Norway have already begun actively enforcing.

ADA lawsuits in the United States are different. These are civil cases filed by private individuals - sometimes genuine disability advocates, sometimes law firms that specialise in ADA litigation. Any person with a disability can file a federal lawsuit against any business whose website they cannot use. No government agency needs to be involved. This is why 4,000+ ADA website cases were filed in a single year.

This is one of the most dangerous assumptions a business owner can make. The largest fines do go to large companies - Meta, Amazon and Google have faced fines in the hundreds of millions - because their violations affect hundreds of millions of users and fines are calculated partly on global revenue. But regulators actively pursue businesses of every size.

A Montessori school in Spain was fined €3,000. A local retailer in Poland was fined €25,000. A mid-sized publisher in France was fined €750,000. None of these were household names. All of them had the same violation you may have right now - no compliant cookie consent banner.

In fact, smaller businesses are often easier targets for enforcement. They have fewer legal resources to challenge a fine, their violations are simpler to document and privacy advocacy organisations specifically target SMEs with automated scans precisely because they are less likely to have invested in compliance. Size does not protect you - in some respects it makes you more vulnerable.

Yes - and this is documented, not just our opinion. The European Data Protection Board and individual data protection authorities across Europe have consistently stated that demonstrated proactive compliance efforts are taken into account both when deciding whether to pursue enforcement and when calculating the amount of any fine. A business that has completed a professional audit and implemented all recommendations is in a fundamentally stronger legal position than one that has taken no action.

What we cannot say - and will not say - is that fixing everything guarantees you will never face regulatory contact. Regulations evolve, new enforcement guidance is issued and regulators have discretion. What we can say with confidence is that a business that has identified its compliance gaps and addressed them professionally has done everything a responsible business owner can do - and regulators explicitly recognise that.

Yes - and e-commerce sites typically have more compliance exposure than static sites because they use more third-party tools. Payment processors, analytics platforms, retargeting pixels, email marketing integrations, product recommendation engines and abandoned cart tools all set cookies and process personal data. Our audit covers your publicly accessible website pages - we identify cookies being set on your public pages and whether your consent mechanism is handling them correctly on the visitor-facing side. We do not audit the third-party platforms themselves or any backend systems. If you are running Shopify, WooCommerce or any other platform, we audit what your visitors see and experience - which is also what regulators look at.