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43Legal Cookie Banner & Tracking Review

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43Legal Cookie Notice & Privacy Signals Review

A fresh-visitor public review of visible cookie controls, cookie information and public data-collection signals on the 43Legal website.

Checked

27 June 2026

Review type

Fresh-Visitor Public Check

Website

43legal.com

Scope

Visible Public Signals

76out of 100

Clear visitor choices, with a strong 2026 policy-refresh opportunity

The public consent layer provides Accept, Deny, View Preferences and Save Preferences actions, with Functional, Preferences, Statistics and Marketing categories. A Manage Consent route is also visible. The main review point is policy maintenance: the dedicated Cookie Policy is dated 2022, includes entries marked “Purpose pending investigation” and has contact information that should be checked against the firm’s current privacy-contact details.

Technical tag behaviour not tested

Privacy information

18 / 25

A detailed Privacy Policy and data-protection contact route are available, but the separate Cookie Policy contact block appears to require review.

Cookie choices

25 / 25

Accept, Deny, View Preferences and Save Preferences controls were visible in the rendered fresh-visitor consent interface.

Cookie information

7 / 15

The Cookie Policy explains categories, but it contains multiple “Purpose pending investigation” entries and an older synchronisation date.

Form transparency

10 / 15

Public contact forms request name, telephone, email and message details, with a linked Privacy Policy available.

Choice persistence

16 / 20

A Manage Consent route and save-preferences action were visible. Preference storage and withdrawal behaviour were not technically tested.

Why the score is 76, not a compliance verdict
This score reflects visible public evidence only. It gives credit for a visible fresh-visitor consent interface with acceptance, denial, preference and consent-management routes. Points are held back because the public Cookie Policy is dated 2022, includes several entries marked “Purpose pending investigation” and contains contact information that should be reviewed against current website contact details. This review did not inspect browser storage, network requests, tags or scripts. It is not a legal conclusion.
What was directly visible in this check
The website’s consent interface presents Functional Cookies as always active and separately describes Preferences, Statistics and Marketing categories. It includes Accept, Deny, View Preferences, Save Preferences and Manage Consent routes. The Cookie Policy says visitors are shown a pop-up on their first visit and that selecting Save Preferences records consent for the categories selected. The public Cookie Policy also lists WordPress and Divi entries, analytics-related identifiers, consent-preference cookies and several miscellaneous entries marked “Purpose pending investigation”.
What this check did not test
This public check did not inspect browser storage, cookie values, network requests, tag-manager settings, analytics requests, advertising pixels or Consent Mode behaviour. It did not determine whether statistics or marketing technologies are technically prevented from loading before a choice, whether every item in the public cookie declaration is current, whether all preference states are stored correctly or whether withdrawal removes or changes all associated technologies.
Important: This is a Public Visibility & Transparency Score based on observed public evidence. It is not a GDPR, PECR, legal or formal compliance score, and it does not determine how scripts, cookies, pixels or tags operate in every consent state.

Review findings

Visible Consent and Privacy Signals

Cookie Notice

  • Visible Accept action identified
  • Visible Deny action identified
  • Visible View Preferences route identified
  • Visible Save Preferences route identified
  • Visible Manage Consent route identified

The public consent layer gives visitors a clear accept, deny and preference-management journey. This review does not determine the technical effect of any individual choice.

Cookie & Privacy Information

  • Dedicated UK Cookie Policy publicly available
  • Cookie Policy last updated in November 2022
  • Functional, Preferences, Statistics and Marketing categories are visible
  • Public declaration contains entries marked “Purpose pending investigation”
  • Cookie Policy contact details should be checked against current Privacy Policy details

The written policy provides a useful category structure, but a current inventory and contact-details review would help ensure that the declaration reflects the live website and current firm information.

Public Data Collection

  • Public contact form requests name, telephone, email and message details
  • Privacy Policy identifies Forty Three Legal Limited as controller
  • Privacy Policy provides a data-protection contact route
  • Website-use information is discussed in the wider Privacy Policy
  • Privacy and Cookie Policy pages are available from the footer

This review does not assess backend form configuration, legal-service records, retention, access controls, security arrangements or client-data processing.

Evidence matrix

Observed Evidence and Review Boundaries

Review areaWhat was observedReview statusNot determined by this check
Cookie messageConsent interface with Accept, Deny, View Preferences and Save Preferences controls.ObservedVisual prominence and whether controls behave identically on every device, browser and page.
Visitor choiceFunctional, Preferences, Statistics and Marketing categories were publicly visible.ObservedDefault status of every category and the technical effect of choosing Accept, Deny or Save Preferences.
Choice persistenceManage Consent route was visible after the consent interface content.ObservedWhether preference storage, withdrawal and re-opening perform identically across every page and device.
Cookie informationCookie Policy describes functional, statistics and marketing/tracking purposes and lists a public technology inventory.ObservedWhether every declared technology is current, complete and accurately categorised for the live site.
Policy maintenanceCookie Policy displays a 2022 update date, pending-investigation entries and contact details requiring review against current Privacy Policy information.ObservedThe reason for each legacy, administrative or pending-investigation entry and whether it is active in live use.
Public formsPublic contact form collects name, telephone, email and message information.ObservedBackend handling, retention, security, lawful basis or legal-service processing.
Cookies and tagsNot technically inspected in this public visibility review.Not testedCookies, browser storage, network requests, analytics requests, advertising technologies, third-party scripts or Consent Mode behaviour.

What a Deeper Review Would Check

The visible consent layer gives visitors clear public choices, but it does not establish what the website technically does before and after each action. A technical review would compare cookies, browser storage, network requests and visible page behaviour before interaction, after Accept, after Deny and after changing category preferences.

The priority would be a policy-to-live-inventory comparison: checking whether every current analytics, marketing, WordPress, plugin, embedded-content and miscellaneous technology is still required, correctly categorised and reflected in the public declaration.

Suggested technical scope

  • Clean-browser baseline
  • Accept versus Deny comparison
  • Cookie and browser-storage review
  • Network-request and tag-firing review
  • Category-default and save-preference review
  • Manage Consent and withdrawal review
  • Cookie declaration versus live-inventory comparison
  • Developer-ready action list

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