Compliance pages

Role: Site Admin

Understanding Fresco compliance pages, including when and how to update them. 

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Compliance pages provide visitors with clear information about how a website complies with relevant laws, regulations, and policies. They help users understand how the site may affect them, including matters relating to privacy, accessibility, and copyright

Compliance pages are required under the policies governing University of Oxford websites and must be present on your site

A Fresco site is provisioned with default Footer links:

We recommend you use these links to ensure compliance with University policies, but if your site has bespoke requirements, you will need to take action

A Fresco site is provisioned with the following unpublished pages:

  1. Copyright
    1. Blank page for you to customise if you have specific copyright requirements which aren't met by the default Footer link to the University's Ownership, Liability and Use statement
    2. If you have a cross-institutional website (i.e. co-owned and managed by multiple institutions, including external bodies), you must publish a custom copyright page
  2. Privacy policy
    1. Blank page for you to customise if you have if you have specific privacy requirements which aren't met by the default Footer link to University's privacy policy 
  3. Accessibility statement
    1. This website runs on Fresco, the University of Oxford’s web platform. Information regarding the accessibility features common to platform sites can be found in the Fresco Platform Accessibility Statement. Where applicable, further information on the content or features specific to this site is detailed below

Taking action

If you have specific privacy or copyright requirements:

  • replace the text on the unpublished page and publish it
  • update the Footer link to point to the new page

If you have additional accessibility requirements:

  • add to the existing page and publish it
  • update the Footer link to point to the new page

Related information

Changes may have been made to enhance this feature since we last updated this page. See What’s new for the latest release information.

Last updated: 10 September 2026