Questions tagged [eu-cookie-law]
The EU cookie law is a peculiar law that applies to any website serving to visitors in the EU. Visitors first have to give consent to store cookies.
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Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the law? Google or the developer?
So Google uses cookies when performing its usual duties of tracking users on a website. That is just it though; Google are setting the cookies and not your website as such. This is by virtue of the ...
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Does the EU cookie law apply to an EU site that is hosted outside of the EU?
I have been reading up about this EU cookie law, and have also had in depth conversations with my girlfriend who is a solicitor/lawyer and with colleagues while building websites. While we are now ...
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Has the EU sued any site(s) yet for not complying with their cookie "law"?
EUROPA websites must follow the Commission's guidelines on privacy and data protection and inform users that cookies are not being used to gather information unnecessarily. - source
Many people find ...
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Where to store users consent (EU cookie law)
We are legally obliged in a few months to obtain consent from users to allow us to store any cookies on the users PC.
My query is, what would be the most effective way of storing this consent to ...
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Who is affected by the EU cookie law?
Every source on the web keeps telling me what the cookie law is, but not whether I have to obey it or not. So I'm asking here: who must obey the cookie law?
Is a website hosted by a server physically ...
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MediaWiki and EU cookie consent
I own a MediaWiki website that is showing Google AdSense. As of September 30th 2015 AdSense requires compliance with the EU cookie law.
The Google Adsense Team is pointing to https://www.google.com/...
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