A minor furor has been raised about privacy issues regarding Flash cookies. These cookies are small pieces of information stored and accessed by Adobe Flash, the browser plug-in used by sites such as from YouTube.
Cookies are usually small text files, given ID tags that are stored on your computer’s browser directory or program data subfolders.
Cookies are created when you use your browser to visit a website that uses cookies to keep track of your movements within the site, help you resume where you left off, remember your registered login, theme selection, preferences, and other customisation functions.
The EU cookie law is the nickname for the ePrivacy Directive. This directive is an EU legal act that all EU countries must implement in their own ways to protect users’ personal data online.
A cookie consent manager is software that you can plug into your website code to run everything to do with the use of cookies on your site. Some countries around the world have what
On February 4, 2021, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced (in French) that it sent letters and emails to approximately 300 organizations, both private and public, to remind them of the new cookie law rules and the need to audit sites and apps to comply with those rules by March 31, 2021.
CookieScan has opened a YouTube channel and have started to put explainer videos to make it even easier to use our cookie management system. In these videos CookieScan employees will explain topics like:
Having a generic cookie pop-up makes it easy to set up on your website and looks good in the country the po-up applies to. If you have a cookie management system that
It is simple, they allow the site visitor to refuse the use of analytical and marketing cookies, thus blocking the website owner from obtaining the personal data and site data they need to make it economical to use.
It is the largest fine ever issued by the French data privacy watchdog CNIL.
US retail giant Amazon was also fined 35 million euros for breaking the rules.
CNIL said Google and Amazon’s French websites had not sought
CookieScan is looking at improvements all the time and listening to feedback from clients and potential clients. Therefore we have made our latest change. When a potential client decides to take us up
