> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.didomi.io/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.didomi.io/tracker-and-vendor-discovery/tracker-and-vendor-discovery-results/review-cookie-lifetime.md).

# 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 **Tracker and Vendor Discovery** 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></tbody></table>

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**Note**: Didomi will also include any cookies with a lifetime that exceeds 13 months in the [Compliance issues](/tracker-and-vendor-discovery/tracker-and-vendor-discovery-results/tracker-and-vendor-discovery-results-overview.md#compliance-issues) tab of the discovery.&#x20;
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View the lifetime of the cookie by selecting the tracker name for the individual cookie.

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The subsequent modal will give your organization information about the tracker including which vendor dropped it, exemptions, etc...

Navigate to the **Cookie Information** section of the modal to review the lifetime of the cookie.

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Additionally, your organization can [download the tracker component](/tracker-and-vendor-discovery/tracker-and-vendor-discovery-results/download-tracker-and-vendor-discovery.md) of the tracker and vendor discovery 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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