Re: [Hampshire] The Cookie Law

2012-05-26 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 26/05/12 08:55, Brad Rogers wrote: So, it's an ill-considered, poorly executed, impossible to police law. You'd think it was one of ours, not pan-European. Good point Brad, although the thing I have noticed with these 'ill-considered and poorly executed laws' is that they often turn out to

Re: [Hampshire] The Cookie Law

2012-05-26 Thread Brad Rogers
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 si

Re: [Hampshire] The Cookie Law

2012-05-26 Thread Stephen Davies
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 th

Re: [Hampshire] The Cookie Law

2012-05-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 25 May 2012 23:13:31 +0100 Tim Brocklehurst 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. -- Regards _ / )

Re: [Hampshire] The Cookie Law

2012-05-26 Thread Vic
> 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 th

Re: [Hampshire] The Cookie Law

2012-05-26 Thread Stephen Davies
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 embedde

Re: [Hampshire] The Cookie Law

2012-05-26 Thread john lewis
On Fri, 25 May 2012 11:22:40 +0100 Tony Whitmore 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 consent and change the