On 25 May 2012 11:22, Tony Whitmore t...@tonywhitmore.co.uk wrote:
I've seen the news articles about the new laws concerning cookies[1]. From
what I can tell from the ICO website[1] there is no exemption from this law
for personal or non-profit making websites.
A brief check of my personal
On Fri, 25 May 2012 11:22:40 +0100
Tony Whitmore t...@tonywhitmore.co.uk wrote:
A brief check of my personal website shows 7 cookies are being set as
a result of using Wordpress and Google Analytics. Accordingly it
seems I should be advising users of these cookies, giving them a
chance to
As I understand it, the law only applies to
Tracking Cookies.
Session Cookies are outside the legislation.
Again, AFAIK, if you don't have links to the vast number of tracking
sites on your website then you don't have anything to worry about.
There are sites that go bonkers with these
As I understand it, the law only applies to
Tracking Cookies.
Session Cookies are outside the legislation.
No. this is not true.
All cookies are covered by the legislation. Regulation 6 requires that the
user is given clear and comprehensive information about all cookies used,
and that
On Fri, 25 May 2012 23:13:31 +0100
Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote:
Hello Tim,
A little more digging reveals this from the guidance notes...
{snipped}
So, it's an ill-considered, poorly executed, impossible to police law.
You'd think it was one of ours, not pan-European.
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I just installed an addon for Firefox that allows me to view the cookies
for a site.
I checked against a pure Wordpress (no links to other sites) site anf I
can see 5 cookies.
Three are wordpress session cookies (I did login)
Two are timer cookies that will expire after 24 hours, i.e. when
On Fri, 25 May 2012 22:56:45 +0100
hants...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello hants...@googlemail.com,
I don't order from Which?. I just read the site. And now it is
Like I said; just one example. Tracking your use of the site is
another. If only to target advertising at you, based on your site
