# US Location Website Scan | Secure Privacy Settings Guide

> Learn how to set the scan location to United States in Secure Privacy and trigger a rescan — ensuring your cookie declaration reflects cookies and services seen by US-based visitors.

- Canonical: https://support.secureprivacy.ai/article/trigger-website-scan-for-us-location--secure-privacy
- Product: Consent Management
- Category: FAQs
- Published: 2026-03-06T12:43:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-03-23T00:17:49.813+00:00
- Reading time: 1 minutes

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Secure Privacy allows you to trigger website scans from two geographic locations — the **EU** and the **United States**. Scanning from a US location detects cookies and services that are specifically served to US-based visitors, ensuring your cookie declaration and privacy policy accurately reflect the tracking technologies seen by that audience.

## Who Is This For?

-   Website administrators managing regional cookie compliance for US and EU audiences
    
-   Developers and digital marketers verifying cookie detection differs between US and EU visitor locations
    
-   Compliance officers needing region-specific scan results for accurate cookie declarations
    

## How to Trigger a Website Scan for a US Location

1.  Log in to your Secure Privacy account and select the domain you want to work with.
    
2.  Navigate to the **Scan Report** section in the left sidebar.
    
3.  Click the **Settings** tab.
    
4.  From the **Scan Location** dropdown, select **United States**.
    
5.  Click **Save** to apply the location setting.
    
6.  Return to the **Scan Report** tab and click **Rescan Website** to start a new scan from the US location.
    

**Note:** Secure Privacy currently supports two scan locations: **European Union** and **United States**. Select the location that matches the audience you want to verify cookie detection for.

![Secure Privacy Scan Report Settings tab showing the Scan Location dropdown with United States selected and Save button](https://pub-7bd19505838640d0a08ef1bd6ec3fb9b.r2.dev/articles/492b28e964e972323b02-441065457fec.webp)

## Common Issues and Fixes

### Scan location does not update after saving

Confirm you clicked **Save** after selecting the new scan location from the dropdown. The location setting is not applied until saved — selecting it from the dropdown alone does not change the active scan location.

### Rescan does not start after changing location

After saving the new location setting, you must manually navigate back to the **Scan Report** tab and click **Rescan Website** to trigger the scan. The rescan does not start automatically when the location is changed.

## See Also

-   [How to Perform a Website Rescan](https://support.secureprivacy.ai/article/cmp-v1--website-rescan-guide--secure-privacy)
    
-   [Where Is My Data Stored?](https://support.secureprivacy.ai/article/-where-is-my-data-stored--secureprivacy-data-location)
    
-   [Scan Report Settings in Secure Privacy](https://support.secureprivacy.ai/article/scan-report-settings-in-secure-privacy)