WatchPol for online merchants
WatchPol continuously monitors relevant regulators, laws, and standards, then compares them with the copy on your storefront. When it spots a possible issue, it explains what changed in plain English and drafts a correction for you to review.
You stay in control. Nothing changes without your approval. WatchPol flags potential issues for review; it does not guarantee legal compliance or replace professional advice. No credit card is required for the free scan.
This week · 3 changes queued
“100% carbon-neutral shipping” — the operative 16 CFR Part 260 asks marketers to qualify and substantiate general environmental-benefit claims.
Found on 4 product pages. Proposed: swap claim to “offset on every order via verified registry” + add a one-line verification.
“Do Not Sell or Share” link must be placed alongside the privacy notice, not nested below it.
Currently in footer column two. Proposed: move to row one, equal weight.
The WatchPol loop
WatchPol runs the same loop every week. Each step leaves a written summary so you and your accountant or attorney can refer back to it later.
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Human approval is the gate: the merchant reviews and approves the change. Nothing goes live without approval.
Step 01
Watch regulators, laws, and standards for relevant changes.
Step 02
Identify storefront content that may create compliance risk.
Step 03
Tell the merchant what changed, why it matters, and where.
Step 04
Draft the recommended correction for review.
Step 05
Merchant reviews and approves the change; nothing goes live without approval.
What we watch
WatchPol monitors official sources across four tracks: GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, multi-state sales-tax nexus, FTC environmental and advertising guidance, and ADA/WCAG. Each rule carries a stable code so you and your accountant or attorney can refer to the same item — no guessing which regulation is in play.
Coverage is a monitoring and review aid, not a certification or guarantee of legal compliance.
Coverage overview
Privacy
Consent, notices, and GPC signals
Sales tax
Thresholds, checkout, and cross-border disclosures
Marketing guidance
Environmental, shipping, and product claims
Accessibility
Contrast, keyboard, forms, and alt text
GDPR consent banner copy
Cookie banner wording, reject-all button parity, and granular consent.
CCPA / CPRA "Do Not Sell" link
Required placement, honor signals (GPC), and 15-day response SLA.
Economic nexus thresholds
Tracks TX, CA, NY, FL — sales tax language on PDP + checkout.
EU VAT IOSS thresholds
Imports under €150 — disclosure language for marketplace checkout.
FTC Green Guides (16 CFR Part 260)
Carbon-neutral & "eco-friendly" claims; general environmental-benefit claims, qualified and substantiated.
Truth-in-advertising claims
Before/after, free-shipping, "doctor-recommended" phrasing.
Storefront WCAG 2.2 AA
Color contrast, keyboard nav, form labels, alt text patterns.
Paste-and-check snippet auditor
Drop a storefront HTML block; get a WCAG 2.1 AA severity report — review-only.
Checkout flow accessibility
Focus order, error messaging, screen-reader landmarks.
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All three are review-only — nothing is pushed to your storefront and nothing is stored between visits.
Paste a PDP block, marketing claim, or product description. WatchPol runs it against the seeded GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and FTC Green Guides patterns and returns severity-grouped rewrites with citations.
Tell WatchPol which jurisdictions you serve, what data you collect, and which processors you use. You get a plain-language draft with the standard sections — review it with counsel before publishing.
Paste a block of HTML from a product or checkout page. WatchPol runs it against the seeded WCAG 2.1 AA heuristic checklist and returns a severity-grouped report with hand-authored corrected markup per finding.
Built for
WatchPol is not for everyone. Be honest about whether it fits.
Inside the digest
Every digest item is structured the same way: what the regulator changed (in your vocabulary), what we found on your storefront, and the proposed edit. Decisions take seconds, not hours.
Your existing tax engine and consent tool keep running. WatchPol is the translator between regulators and your storefront — and the safer inbox between you and the “did we miss something?” anxiety.
Sales tax · TX-NEXUS
Privacy · CCPA-12
Accessibility · ADA-WCAG22
Common questions
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