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EU law banning cookies...
Microsys:
Each country is going to specify their own cookie laws, but generally speaking people have to consent before cookies are used from the 25th May.
I *think* a login into a forum would automatically be considered consent...
So my question is: Will SMF on it's own under any circumstances store cookies before login is made? If so, any chance for an option of disabling this?
I am trying to slowly work my way through it all before May 25th
butchs:
This link says:
--- Quote ---Dutch law requires an opt-out regime for cookies: users need to be informed about the placement of tracking cookies, and they need to have an option to opt-out of having these cookies placed on their computers.
--- End quote ---
As far as I know SMF does not install tracking cookies.
;)
Illori:
you might be interested in http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=425349
flapjack:
However if the data being stored in the cookie is a requirement to provide the service (which would include cookies relating to shopping basket, logging in etc.), consent is not required. The key point of the law appears to be to control ‘behavioural’ tracking, which is used to target adverts to a user based on what they have looked at or how they have interacted with websites.
http://www.f2b.co.uk/blog/2011/3/14/new-eu-cookie-law-what-does-it-mean-for-uk-websites/
Microsys:
Are any cookies set before user logs in into forum? If so, I am 99% sure that it's not legal from 25t May. (I followed quite a few discussions, but I am not a lawyer, so my opinion is not any better than anyone else's!)
It's true cookies can be set if/when consent is implied. I guess that a login into a forum would be consent.
It is also true I have seen shopping carts listed as exception. (Not anything else though)
The purpose of the cookie as such does not matter AFAIK. (Even if the intent was to target tracking cookies, the law got much broader)
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