Practical guidance for UK organisations responsible for websites, digital marketing, privacy and online compliance risk.
Stalytics Insights explains how changing UK rules affect websites and digital communications in practice, from cookies, trackers and consent banners to email marketing, SMS, privacy, accessibility and website governance.
Website compliance rarely sits inside one rule or one policy. A consent banner can involve the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), cookies and tracking technologies can involve both PECR and the UK GDPR, and marketing activity can bring separate rules for email, SMS, telephone calls and the use of personal data.
Stalytics Insights is built to make those connections clearer. The articles focus on the rules and observable website behaviour that matter to UK business owners, directors, website managers, marketing teams and other people responsible for operating a public-facing website.
Coverage includes changes to PECR and the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, cookie consent and tracking, direct marketing, UK GDPR and privacy requirements, website accessibility, and the wider governance decisions involved in running a website responsibly.
Where an article discusses legislation or regulatory guidance, we aim to identify the relevant primary or official sources so you can see where the information comes from. Stalytics provides this material as general information for business decision-making, not as legal advice or a certification of compliance.
Read the latest Stalytics articles on regulatory changes, website compliance risk and the practical impact of UK privacy and electronic communications rules.
PECR and UK GDPR overlap, but they do different jobs. See how the rules apply to cookies, analytics, consent and direct marketing, and what the 2026 DUAA changes mean in practice.
What changed under the DUAA for UK email and SMS marketing, including B2B rules, charity marketing and the new PECR penalties.
The DUAA rewrote the UK's cookie rules. See the five PECR exceptions, when analytics can operate without consent, what still requires consent, and the new penalty regime.