The UAE Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law 45/2021) applies to your website the moment it collects personal data — a contact form, analytics, a cookie is enough. Check yours in about a minute, free.
No signup. No credit card. Automated check — real measurements, not a questionnaire.
What we actually measure, and what you can check yourself today. If any answer is “no” — or “I don’t know” — that is exactly what the free check will show you.
PDPL requires transparency about who collects the data and why. A generic template that never names your company, or a policy copied from a GDPR site with EU-only references, does not cover you.
The most common failure we measure: analytics and advertising pixels loading on first paint, before the cookie banner is even shown. Consent that arrives after the data has already left is not consent.
Pre-ticked boxes, a giant “Accept” with a hidden decline path, or a banner that sets the same cookies whatever you click — these are the dark patterns regulators and users punish. Decline must actually decline.
Listing the categories of personal data, the purposes, and the third parties (analytics, ads, payment, hosting) is the core of PDPL transparency. “We may collect some data to improve our services” is not a disclosure.
PDPL gives individuals rights over their data — access, correction, deletion. Your site needs a working contact route for these requests, not a dead form or an inbox nobody reads.
Data minimisation: a newsletter signup that demands a phone number, or a contact form that requires a date of birth, collects more than the purpose justifies — and every extra field is extra liability.
From UAE websites audited with AVE — measured behaviour, not surveys.
The Personal Data Protection Law — Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 — is the UAE’s federal data-protection framework. It applies to businesses processing personal data of individuals in the UAE, sets consent and transparency requirements, and carries administrative penalties for violations.
If your website collects personal data of people in the UAE — contact forms, analytics, cookies, newsletter signups, online orders — PDPL is relevant to you. Size is not an exemption; the law looks at what data you process, not how big you are.
Of the UAE websites we have audited with AVE, roughly 1 in 3 fails at least one compliance area (PDPL requirements, cookie-consent behaviour, or privacy disclosures). The single most common failure is trackers firing before the visitor has consented.
You get an automated audit of your website with real scores. You choose which areas to analyze on your free run — pick PDPL Compliance and Consent Intelligence for the compliance picture — and see the top issues found, in plain language. No signup, no credit card.
No. AVE is an automated technical audit: it measures what your website actually does — which trackers fire, when, what your policies cover — against PDPL requirements. For legal interpretation of your specific situation, consult a lawyer. What we give you is the factual evidence they would ask for anyway.
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