willows wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 10:47 pm
To make your site comply fully, you will need to
1. update your cookie statement
2. have a cookie permission dialogue on entering the site
3. have a privacy statement covering aspects of the new GDPR Law
4. Personal information request application. ( our addon does this )
5. Right to be forgotten request application ( our addon does this )
GDPR covers your whole organisation and this addon is only intended to make the requesting and the right to be forgotten requests automated.
Again wrong -
and gross negligent!
You point the users in the wong direction.
What is allowed - without explicit consent
All cookies about/with:
1. language
2. currency
3. session
These 3 are standard cookies OpenCart sets/checks at every visit.
Beside them is an affiliate cookie, but if you are a partner of this site, you should agree and know that.
What is NOT allowed - user must explicit agree
Simply: every and each cookie which can track users.
Which also means, if you use for example GA (Google Analytics) you have to set in your GA-Account that the IP has to be anonymized!
Which also means, if the tracking cookie allows to easy track the user - e.g. all 'Social Media' cookies and so on, AND it cannot be anoymized > you are not allowed to use it.
Beside this: everyone who intend to use GA (furthermore), has to sign a contract with Google!
The so called 'Cookie Banner' was introduced because of the UK-Law and Cookies.
This 'banner' is normally not required if your country (where your shop/company is registered) is outside the UK.
The more, it is useless if you are not from the UK.
Beside this all, latest Court decisions (High Court in Germany - some EU countries are following those decisions) recommend to
disable all Social Share Buttons and Solutions.
If not, you may get punished.
Punishment: well, I guess everybody knows in the meantime what this can be .. or not?
Just to recap:
up to 20 Mill. Euro or 4% of your worldwide revenue
Guess nobody has such lousy amount in his pocket .. or?
So better to follow the 'new' regulations - the get in effect on the
25th of May 2018.
Not a second later!
p.s. talking about 'useless' or to 'boycott' or 'starting a petition' ..
Nice talk, but a waste of time - and you did not understand the background of these regulations!
Accept what is coming and make the best of it - the 'good' shopowners have nothing to fear.
But all those lousy and fake 'chinese' shops using OpenCart and my Translation, selling fake goods - such shops will be stopped by these laws.
Hopefully.
Sitzerland (@IP_CAM): also not true - or partly!
If you sell only in Switzerland, you can do what you want (following Swiss Regulations).
But the moment you sell outside Switzerland, you have to follow the rules of the Country the customer comes - see Consumer Rights!