# Review cookie lifetime

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**Access Type**: Compliance Report - Viewer or Editor
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While data privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) do not have a comprehensive rule regarding the lifetime of a cookie and defer to national data protection authorities to provide specific guidance, a widely adopted guideline is 13 months.

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The 13 months guideline is based on recommendations from the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL).
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Review the lifetime of cookies dropped on a domain by clicking **Compliance Report** on the left-hand panel and selecting **Details** inline with a domain on the subsequent page.

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Ensure the Trackers tab is selected and use the provided filters to filter the list by:

<table><thead><tr><th width="222.13330078125">Filter</th><th>Value(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Type</td><td>Cookie</td></tr><tr><td>Lifetime</td><td><ul><li>Between 12 and 24 months</li><li>More than 24 months</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>

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**Note**: Didomi will also include any cookies with a lifetime that exceeds 13 months in the [Compliance issues](/compliance-report/compliance-report-results/compliance-report-overview.md#compliance-issues) tab of the report.&#x20;
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Most of the cookies on table will have a lifetime greater than 13 months. To learn more about which party is initiating the cookie on your domain, click the name of the **Initiator** inline with the cookie.&#x20;

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The subsequent modal will give your organization information on the vendor such as their privacy policy, all the trackers they dropped on your domain, etc...

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Additionally, your organization can [download the tracker component](/compliance-report/compliance-report-results/download-compliance-report.md) of the compliance report to see all of the pages where the Didomi bot discovered a particular cookie.
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Once the cookies with lifetimes greater than 13 months are identified, use this information to contact the initiating vendor to ask that the cookie lifetime is reduced or deleted.


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