Cookies Policy

General Web Dev
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Hello!

I’ve recently built a website for my partners business and i’m looking to sort out the “legal” issues such as a cookie policy, privacy policy etc…

  1. Whats the best way around sorting these policies? I’ve found a few free solutions like Termly that you answer a bunch of questions and it’ll generate a cookie policy automatically
  2. The “cookie banner” - is this just a case of setting a cookie not to display the banner once they’ve closed it? Do users need to be able to turn on and off cookies? (There isn’t loads of cookies to be fair - just analytics really, no authentication of any kind)
  3. What about a privacy policy?

I do consider from time to time getting back into website development and starting my own business but i’ve no idea who is resposible for sorting these policies and how you go about it exactly.

Thanks in advance!

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If you mean GDPR, it is about storing personal data. Like personal data as IP, name, telephone etc.

You can split up this into 2 issues.

  1. The visitor must have an ability to accept or deny collecting his/hers “personal” data.
  2. You must tell the visitor what you collect, why you collect it, and how long you will save the collected data (both via forms and other ways).

It is OK to save data in order to make business and collect marketing info, but not saving “forever”. All personal data has an expire date.

But “legal” may differ from country to country…

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Here’s some reading about the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive, if you’re not familiar with it.

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