“Under the “Privacy and Electronic Communication (Amendment) Regulations 2011 – The Cookies Directive” we are currently in the process of finalising our implementation strategy to ensure that each of our Group company websites complies with the Cookies Directive.
We would be interested to know what approach other companies will be taking to obtain user consent to the placing of cookies and their views as to the commercial impact that compliance may have on the usability of their websites.”
Our present approach is to include an “allow cookies” tick box in the introductory space bar, as adopted by organisations such as The Cookie Collective (www.cookielaw.org).
As we use Google analytics, we were interested to see that the UK government is apparently saying that the use of Analytics cookies is classed as essential