simonthegeek

Yep, but that is fine with me. Not my problem, as such, if you know what I mean? ?? All I care about is not getting a fine from the information commissioner, and I’ll be covered from a legal point of view with the timeout.

Let’s face it, nobody is putting these messages up because they think their visitors actually care about cookies are they? It’s just to avoid the fine. So we should be looking for the simplest, quickest, prettiest solution that gets us just over the line of compliance and nothing more.

But that is my point – the law as it stands in the UK now means that you are actively giving consent if you continue to use the site after the message has been displayed. So no need for the message to be there the whole time if the visitor actually hasn’t clicked the ok button.

I want to comply with the law (if I’m forced to) but I also want to regain control of my design/layout as quickly as possible, so timing out is perfect, or only displaying on the first page the visitor arrives at works for me.

Thanks for the reply.

But surely if massive players in the tech market like bt.com and pcpro.co.uk, with their army of well paid lawyers, have decided it is ok to use a timeout as acceptance/consent, then surely it’s ok for the rest of us?