# Download compliance report

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**Access Type:** Compliance Report - Viewer or Editor
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Once a compliance report is generated on a domain your organization can download the report components (vendors and trackers) onto your local machine in a variety of formats. In this article, we will cover the following:

* [Download compliance report](#download-compliance-report)
* [Vendors result glossary](#vendors-result-glossary)
* [Trackers result glossary](#trackers-result-glossary)

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[Click here](/compliance-report/tracker-policy/download-cookie-policy.md) for information on downloading the cookie policy for a domain. 
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### Download compliance report

Click **Compliance Report** on the right-hand panel and select **Details** inline with a domain on the subsequent page.

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From the top panel, use the **Pick a report** drop-down menu to select the compliance report you wish to download.

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Click the **download** icon and select the compliance report component (vendors or trackers) and format. The specified file will be downloaded onto your local machine.

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### Vendors result glossary

Refer to the table below for more information on the data included in a downloaded vendors component of a compliance report.

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**Note**: The difference between a vendor and initiator is that:

* **Vendor** - requests a tracker to be launched. They have  has access to the data and are responsible of the data treatment
* **Initiator** - the party that is technically called by the **Vendor** to launch the tracker
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<table><thead><tr><th width="229.4500732421875">Field</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Date</td><td>Date the compliance report was generated for which the vendor was found on the domain</td></tr><tr><td>Vendor</td><td>Name of vendor within Didomi database<br><br><mark style="background-color:$warning;"><strong>Note</strong>: If vendor is not present in the Didomi database, the field will be empty.</mark></td></tr><tr><td>Page URL</td><td>URL where the vendor was found on your domain</td></tr><tr><td>Request URL</td><td>URL that triggered the vendor</td></tr><tr><td>Is tag</td><td>Is the vendor considered a tag (request was made to a JavaScript file)?</td></tr><tr><td>Tag type</td><td>File type that was requested</td></tr><tr><td>TCF id</td><td>IAB TCF vendor ID (if vendor is a part of the IAB TCF)</td></tr><tr><td>Initiator URL</td><td>URL of the initiator </td></tr><tr><td>Initiator vendor</td><td>Name of the initiator</td></tr><tr><td>Processing rule</td><td>The legal bases used by vendor</td></tr><tr><td>Initiator processing rule</td><td>The legal bases used by the initiator</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Trackers result glossary

Refer to the table below for more information on the data included in a downloaded trackers component of a compliance report.

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**Note**: The difference between a vendor and initiator is that:

* **Vendor** - requests a tracker to be launched. They have  has access to the data and are responsible of the data treatment
* **Initiator** - the party that is technically called by the **Vendor** to launch the tracker
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<table><thead><tr><th width="246.95001220703125">Field</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Initiator Vendor</td><td>Name of the initiator that launched the tracker</td></tr><tr><td>Initiator URL</td><td>URL of the initiator of the tracker</td></tr><tr><td>Vendor</td><td>Name of the vendor that requested the tracker be launched</td></tr><tr><td>Page URL</td><td>URL where the tracker was found on your domain</td></tr><tr><td>Cookie domain</td><td>Domain of the tracker</td></tr><tr><td>Cookie name</td><td>Name of the tracker</td></tr><tr><td>Lifetime (in seconds)</td><td>Lifetime of the tracker before it expires in seconds</td></tr><tr><td>Sample</td><td>A sample of data within the tracker</td></tr><tr><td>Party</td><td>Trackers can be categorized into 1st-party or 3rd-party depending on which entity has triggered the dropping of the tracker. If the website itself is dropping a tracker then it will be counted as a 1st-party tracker. A tracker dropped by a vendor will be counted as a 3rd-party tracker.<br><br><mark style="background-color:$warning;"><strong>Note</strong>: Cookies can be created by a vendor (initiator) but still be dropped by the website itself (e.g. tag managers). In this case, the tracker is considered a 1st-party tracker.</mark> </td></tr><tr><td>Type</td><td><p>Indicates whether the track is a:</p><p></p><ul><li><strong>Cookie</strong> - Small block of data placed on the end-user's device while. Cookies will expire based on their settings. </li><li><strong>Pixel</strong> - an HTML code snippet which is loaded when an end-user visits a website or opens an email. Pixels are useful for tracking end-user behavior and conversions.</li><li><strong>Web storage</strong> - Enables a party to access a local storage object and store data in the browser with no expiration date. Data stored in the browser will persist even after the browser window has been closed.</li><li><strong>Indexed DB</strong> - Client-side storage mechanism within web browsers, designed to allow web applications to store large amounts of structured data locally on the user's device for offline functionality and performance enhancements</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>Purposes</td><td>Purpose names for purposes mapped to the tracker in the tracker policy for the domain</td></tr><tr><td>Exemptions</td><td>Indicates if the tracker is configured as consent-exempt in the tracker policy for the domain:<br><br><strong>Yes</strong> | <strong>No</strong></td></tr></tbody></table>


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