Cookie control – getting user's explicit consent

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  clearbox · Member · May 28, 2012 at 3:41 pm

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  How can I use cookie control on my site? I see the mechanism to get a user’s explicit consent for cookies is available on wordpress.org and it is now a requirement in the UK that you get that consent but I cannot find the option/widget etc on wordpress.com to use this feature.

  What’s the best solution?

  Thanks
  Blog url: http://radcliffenewlands.wordpress.com/

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  coffeemanmatt · Member · May 28, 2012 at 5:00 pm

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  Hi clearbox,

  We’re aware of the recent EU privacy directive and the related UK Cookie Law. As of now, the relevant authorities haven’t issued concrete guidance on the actions that are necessary to comply with the law. We’ll be watching as the situation develops and may make changes to our services in the future, if required.

  For now – since sites hosted at WordPress.com do make use of cookies, you may like to flag this fact for visitors to your site. One way to do this is to add a text widget to your side bar and include a link to our privacy policy (which contains information on the cookies that we use). You might also inform your visitors that they can refuse all cookies by changing the settings of their browsers.

  Our Privacy Policy can be foundhere, and instructions for adding a text widget to your site can be found here.