POPIA Compliance Checklist for South African Websites
Is your South African website legally compliant? Tick off the items below to calculate your POPIA Compliance Score and discover exactly what you are missing.
How to Use This POPIA Compliance Checklist
This free checklist covers the 10 most important compliance requirements for South African websites under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). Tick each item you have completed and your compliance score will update automatically. Your progress is saved in your browser.
What Each Category Means
Legal Pages
POPIA requires your website to have a Privacy Policy that discloses how you collect and use personal information. The ECT Act also requires Terms & Conditions for any website conducting business online. A Cookie Policy is required if your site uses any analytics or tracking scripts.
Consent
Under POPIA, you must obtain explicit, informed consent before collecting personal data. This means all checkboxes on your forms must be unticked by default, and your cookie banner must block non-essential scripts until the user actively accepts. Read our full consent guide.
Compliance
Every South African business automatically has an Information Officer — by default this is the business owner. They must be registered with the Information Regulator and their contact details should be publicly accessible. A PAIA Manual is also a legal requirement.
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