What are you doing about the new cookie law?
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We now have just over one month to apply the new cookie laws (May 27th) to our sites. What are you doing about it, are you worrying about it etc?
I'm going down the route of an allow cookies button/bar at the top of the page and filling out a detailed description in my privacy policies, now called privacy & cookie policy.
I've heard of some people putting a check box on the login page as the main cookie/session is to see if you're logged in or not.
This option looks pretty goodhttp://cookies.dev.wolf-software.com/...
I'm going down the route of an allow cookies button/bar at the top of the page and filling out a detailed description in my privacy policies, now called privacy & cookie policy.
I've heard of some people putting a check box on the login page as the main cookie/session is to see if you're logged in or not.
This option looks pretty goodhttp://cookies.dev.wolf-software.com/...
The link you gave looks like a good option its not too obtrusive, to be honest I am still not entirely sure what to do, I was hoping the government in my country would see sense and boot this ridiculous piece of tree hugger legislation into touch, unfortunately not!
Um... are these the cookie laws that went into effect last year, and were widely ignored, so much so that they barely left a mark on the internet ?
"On 26th May 2011, new laws came into force in the UK that affect most web sites. If cookies are used in a site, the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (UK Regulations) provide that certain information must be given to that site's visitors and the user must give his or her consent to the placing of the cookies".
If it is than nothing as it didn't really go anywhere, and I think the only website in the UK adhering to it is the BBC's. I mean you have gotten away without it for almost a year now, and laws like this are only truly enforceable when the public participates.
"On 26th May 2011, new laws came into force in the UK that affect most web sites. If cookies are used in a site, the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (UK Regulations) provide that certain information must be given to that site's visitors and the user must give his or her consent to the placing of the cookies".
If it is than nothing as it didn't really go anywhere, and I think the only website in the UK adhering to it is the BBC's. I mean you have gotten away without it for almost a year now, and laws like this are only truly enforceable when the public participates.
It was put off for a year in the UK which is why you havnt seen much compliance so far, it comes into full force at the end of May.
What Vldall said, May 27th I believe.
Hmm, might give that a miss. If I create one solution I can use it across the 10-15 sites, otherwise it gets a little expensive.
Just some other solutions out there which have been useful:
http://jpecr.dev.wolf-software.com/...
http://cookiesdirective.com/
http://jsfiddle.net/xq6XX/9/
hope that helps someone out there
thanks
Jonnym
http://jpecr.dev.wolf-software.com/...
http://cookiesdirective.com/
http://jsfiddle.net/xq6XX/9/
hope that helps someone out there
thanks
Jonnym
Cookiesdirective.com looked good until:
"It's not going to support all scripts. Some scripts weren't designed to be wrapped in, or called from, a function. It's a case of suck it and see.
It's a little flakey in IE when running under certain doc types. I'll look at this when time permits, but any assistance in this respect much appreciated."
For front end cookies anyway :/
"It's not going to support all scripts. Some scripts weren't designed to be wrapped in, or called from, a function. It's a case of suck it and see.
It's a little flakey in IE when running under certain doc types. I'll look at this when time permits, but any assistance in this respect much appreciated."
For front end cookies anyway :/
Sorry to drag up an old thread guys, the UK information commissioners office has issued a last minute amendment to their guidelines, they are now saying that "Implied" consent is still a valid form of consent, they have said that it does not give website owners the license to do nothing, but it does seem something like an enhanced privacy policy and drawing peoples attention to it may be sufficient.
Please dont take this as gospel, this is how I am interpreting the new guidance, it solely depends on what type of site you are running and what info you are collecting, but I would definitely check out the new guidance, you may not have to do as much as you first thought.
http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/blog/2012/updated-ico-advice-guidance-e-...
The Guardian are reporting this as a massive U-turn, I am not so sure its such a dramatic change, but it is a definite watering down of previous guidance.
I would also like to add, this is a UK only thing as far as I am concerned, as far as other European countries go, you will have to check out what you are expected to do to comply by your own privacy enforcement agencies.
Please dont take this as gospel, this is how I am interpreting the new guidance, it solely depends on what type of site you are running and what info you are collecting, but I would definitely check out the new guidance, you may not have to do as much as you first thought.
http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/blog/2012/updated-ico-advice-guidance-e-...
The Guardian are reporting this as a massive U-turn, I am not so sure its such a dramatic change, but it is a definite watering down of previous guidance.
I would also like to add, this is a UK only thing as far as I am concerned, as far as other European countries go, you will have to check out what you are expected to do to comply by your own privacy enforcement agencies.
