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  ishironori · Member · Jun 28, 2015 at 1:06 am

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  Hello,
  I have a couple of wp-hosted blog and I am looking for help as I think I should add the ‘cookie law disclaimer’ on both of them because I’m italian. How can I do that?

  Thanks

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  ehtis · Staff · Jun 28, 2015 at 1:32 am

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  Hi there,

  There’s no option to add such a banner on this platform yet, however, WordPress.com’s legal team has given out the following statement and some suggestions for an alternate solution:

  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 found here:

  Privacy Policy

  Instructions for adding a text widget to your site can be found here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

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  ishironori · Member · Jun 28, 2015 at 11:39 am

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  Thanks!

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  justjennifer · Member · Jun 30, 2015 at 3:08 pm

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  Please see this new sticky post at the top of the forums:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/eu-cookie-law-widget?replies=1

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  galois · Member · Jun 30, 2015 at 3:14 pm

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  Thanks, JJ. :)