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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
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I am not familiar with that law but WordPress itself uses cookies regardless of the theme you are using.
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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
@anthyx I’ve deleted your duplicate topics, please don’t do that.
As I’ve written, WordPress uses cookies. That happens before any other plugins do though there is no reason why a plugin or theme cannot use cookies as well.
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Anthyx
(@anthyx)
Dear Jan,
problem is that these new italian rules are part of a more general european cookies / privacy directive.
This law is about visitors privacy, that’s why I have to understand the nature of data handled by wordpress cookies.
I’m scared by the HUGE fines.
Again, many thanks and sorry for the double post.
Antonio
Questions like this have been asked here before and there seems not to be an answer that is acceptable; WordPress drops cookies; no cookies, no WordPress.
I’m not familiar with the specifics of the EU law, but I can’t imagine that you won’t be able to find a way to comply by NOTIFYING users that you are using cookies. There’s a plugin here that might do the trick: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cookie-law-info
to all: if you use cookies, you need to give your visitors the option to accept them or not accept them.
Anthyx: For you to log-in (and stay logged) to ANY site…you will need to use cookies. Like this site, gmail, EVERYTHING ELSE.
I’m scared by the HUGE fines.
I think only huge sites/domains actually need be concerned about that, and I rely upon the simple idea of notifying visitors and then letting them decide whether to remain at the site rather than my trying to disable cookies or whatever and still make it possible for a visitor to remain.
There are several plugins related to all of this, and I would guess you will be fine with a simple “Cookie Notice” of one flavor or another.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=cookie+consent
