New EU Cookie Compliancy (jQuery)

In Europe there is a new law that governs how cookies can be used on websites. Essential cookies, such as ones used in shopping carts, are fine however if you use any form of non-essential cookie on your website you must first gain permission before activating those non-essential cookies.

Does this affect you?

It will affect almost every website that operates within the EU. This is not restricted to EU-only domains such as .fr, .uk and .de but any website that operates in the EU. Even if your website is based in the US, on a .com domain, but offers services to people in Europe your website must comply with this law.

New EU Cookie Law Overview

In Europe there is a new law that governs how cookies can be used on websites. Essential cookies, such as ones used in shopping carts, are fine however if you use any form of non-essential cookie on your website you must first gain permission before activating those non-essential cookies.

For example, if your website uses any form of analytical tracking such as Google Analytics or ad scripts like Google AdSense you will need to gain consent from the user before tracking them. While this is somewhat up in the air at the moment, with no-one really knowing what is allowed and what is not, it’s best to be on the safe side as there are potentially hefty fines for website owners who do not adhere to the law.

For a detailed overview of the law and for further guidance, you can visit http://www.cookielaw.org/.

So what does this script do?

Essentially it provides you with a way to allow users to opt-in to using cookies. If they accept cookies then all of the cookie-restricted JavaScript will be included and any future page loads will include the JavaScript. If they do not the JavaScript will not be included.

Features

Three different colour variations (orange, blue and black).
A light and dark theme for each colour.
Position on the right or left.
Define your own text, cookie name and animation times.
Include all your cookie-related JavaScript in one single file which is then included automatically if the user has accepted cookies.

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Unenforceable and just an example of politicians trying to blow smoke up the collective asses of their constituents.


Every browser can be set up to manually accept cookies or reject them. That is the responsibility of the user to do.
As long as the cookies are not executing an illegal act in regards to the users computer this will never fly.

Blue said:

Unenforceable

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it is an enforceable act, i spoke at length with someone at the ICO in the UK about this.
the problem is the EU politicians who thought this up never thought how can it be policed

Blue said:

just an example of politicians trying to blow smoke up the collective asses of their constituents.

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true

easyhostmedia said:

it is an enforceable act, i spoke at length with someone at the ICO in the UK about this.
the problem is the EU politicians who thought this up never thought how can it be policed

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If it can't be policed how can it be enforced?
A law is unenforceable when there are no resources to enforce it.

Blue said:

If it can't be policed how can it be enforced?
A law is unenforceable when there are no resources to enforce it.

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Agreed.

Eitherway it's a joke, thats all I think on the cookie rules now.

There is something i don't understand. If you include google analytics in your site, then it is not your site who is setting the cookies - it is Google (the javascript is loaded from their server). So not your problem at all?
So is using google analytics OK, or my thinking is flawed?

You would still be responsible because the cookie is being set via your site regardless of who the third party is.

Blue said:

A law is unenforceable when there are no resources to enforce it.

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WRONG a law/act is enforcable as long as legal proceedings can be taken against anyone breaching the law/act.

easyhostmedia said:

WRONG a law/act is enforcable as long as legal proceedings can be taken against anyone breaching the law/act.

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Perhaps you could outline how this would take place when there are no resources to enforce it.
Yes, you can make a silly little semantics argument that it is enforceable because it is written in a book somewhere. Generally common sense takes over and proves that a law with no enforcement is equal to an unenforceable law.

Perhaps you can keep us all up to date on how many "enforcements" of this law take place and how many outcomes there are.

Blue said:

Perhaps you could outline how this would take place when there are no resources to enforce it.
Yes, you can make a silly little semantics argument that it is enforceable because it is written in a book somewhere. Generally common sense takes over and proves that a law with no enforcement is equal to an unenforceable law.

Perhaps you can keep us all up to date on how many "enforcements" of this law take place and how many outcomes there are.

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this is what i was told in a very log phone with the ICO in the UK.

enforcable means that this can be enforced if resources are made available, just because they dont have resources currently available does not mean this is not enforceable.

most likely this is one of these things that will be forgotten in a few months