Seen CookieFlame-Check in your website’s visitor logs? This page explains what it is and what it does.
CookieFlame-Check is the browser behind CookieFlame Pro’s Automatic Site Scan. It visits a website as a brand-new visitor and lists the cookies that website sets, so its owner can keep their cookie banner and cookie policy accurate.
It shows up as an ordinary Chrome browser, with this added to the end of its user agent:
CookieFlame-Check/1.0 (+https://cookieflame.com/cookie-check)
Only when the website’s owner asks for it. That means when they start a scan in CookieFlame Pro, and once a month after that for their automatic monthly scan, which they can switch off.
It never crawls the web on its own. Each scan opens up to 40 public pages on that one website, chosen by the site’s own CookieFlame Pro plugin, one page at a time with a pause in between.
It records the name of each cookie it finds, along with the domain that set it, when it expires and its security settings. It never keeps cookie values. It uses its own empty browser, so no real visitor’s data is involved, and it doesn’t log in, fill in forms or buy anything. Results are kept on cookieflame.com for 90 days.
If CookieFlame-Check is visiting a website you run and you didn’t ask for a scan, or you’d like it to stop, get in touch and we’ll sort it out.
