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Is your website legal?
The basics a UK business website has to carry, checked against your homepage in a few seconds, with the rule named on every row.
Questions people ask
What does a UK business website legally have to show?
A limited company must show its registered name, company number, place of registration and registered office address on the website itself, not only on invoices. Every business selling or offering services online must give its name, a geographic address and an email address, and a VAT number if it is VAT registered. Anyone collecting personal data, which includes a contact form or an analytics tag, needs a privacy policy. Anything that sets non-essential cookies needs consent first.
What happens if these are missing?
Companies House trading-disclosure breaches are a criminal offence for the company and its officers, with fines. Missing privacy or cookie consent is an ICO matter. In practice the bigger cost is trust: buyers and AI assistants both read a website with no identity as less real than one that states plainly who is behind it.
Does this check the whole website?
It reads the homepage and the domain's email records. A privacy policy linked from an inner page only, or a company number buried on the contact page, will show as a warning here and is worth moving to the footer, where the law and the buyer both expect it.
I am a sole trader. What applies to me?
No company number, but the rest still does: your name and a geographic address where documents can be served, an email address, a privacy policy if you have any form or analytics, and cookie consent if anything tracks. If you trade under a business name, the rules say you show your own name too.
I am a solicitor. Why does it mention prices?
Since 2018 the SRA Transparency Rules require firms to publish price and service information for certain work (conveyancing, probate, immigration, employment tribunal claims, debt recovery, licensing and motoring offences) and to show the SRA digital badge. A firm with no prices on its website is out of step with its own regulator as well as with buyers.
Is this legal advice?
No. It is a plain-English check of what is visible on the page against the rules named on each row. If a row says bad, read the rule it names, or ask a solicitor. Nothing typed in is stored.