Got wrong Cookie description

Hi Anant,

Thank you for your question. I understand your concern. The descriptions that are used are based on cookiedatabase.org, a community driven effort to discuss the description and function of more than 5000 cookies (only collected in the last two weeks). If tk_ai is an admin-only cookie, as the Jetpack descriptions mentions, there is no problem with the law. In that case you have informed your visitors about a cookie that will not be placed on their computer.

However….The current problem with tk_ai is that there is a serious concern amongst some website owners that the cookie is placed as a first party cookie and also does analytics on the regular visitors. This suspicion was first mentioned here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tk_ai-cookie-and-gdpr/page/2/#post-11906009 Some testing I did last week seems to confirm this, but we have to run some more tests to be absolutely sure, and will then ask the teams from Jetpack/Woocommerce/Automatic to verify the information on cookiedatabase.org.

So what we have done for now is that we changed the description in cookiedatabase.org; It now mentions that the cookie is actually used by at least 3 different services (Jetpack, Woocommerce and Automattics) , and that of those services the main service is “Automattic”.
The cookie is placed and used for analytics/statistics (for the Automattic organization), so the purpose is Statistics. And it is indeed not only placed on computers where the users are logged in (as an admin) on a wordpress website.

See also: https://cookiedatabase.org/cookie/woocommerce/tk_ai/

We are thinking about adding some improvements to the cookienotice in order to deal with this situation where one cookie is actually used by several services. And we will be writing an article about the question a unique User ID stored as cookievalue can never trully be anonymus.

To answer your support question: We do our very best to provide the most up to date descriptions.