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Cookie Law and Your Business – You Need To Act Now!
Website owners are now required to obtain consent from site visitors before they can store or retrieve any information, using Cookies, on a computer or any other web connected device. So, if your website uses cookies, you need to be open with your customers about how you will use the information or face the possibility of a hefty fine from The UK’s Information Commissioners Office (ICO) .
You will need to:
- Find out what cookies you are using on your site & work out which cookies you need to obtain consent for (there are some exceptions)
- Work out how it will affect the running of your website.
- Build a process of obtaining consent into your website.
- Make sure that your Privacy Policy contains all the relevant information to comply with these new regulations.
- Give clear and comprehensive information about why you are using cookies.
- Obtain the website user’s consent to use them and tell the website user what information will be stored.
- Give the website user the opportunity to refuse the continued storage of, or access to, any cookies on their computer.
- Explain how users can turn the cookies off.
How Can Peak Net Help?
In an attempt to help all our customers comply with the new legislation we can work with you to complete this task quickly and easily and comply with the legislation deadline of May 25th 2012.
- We can tell you what cookies you are using on your site – for example a website with Google Analytics installed will use cookies.
- We can tell you which cookies you need to obtain consent for as there are some exceptions for the use of "necessary" cookies, such as those needed to add a product into a shopping basket.
- We can help you build a process and statement of obtaining user consent into your website.
