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Status: Closed (View Workflow)
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Resolution: Done
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: None
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Story Points:1
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Description
Situation: Europe requires any site that uses cookies to inform the user, and give them a chance to accept/deny.
Task: Implement a cookie notification that requires the user to accept or back out of the site.
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Activity
Basic cookie alert is working.
Closing issue.
Note, we may decide in the future to expand the cookie warning.
While researching the standard way to implement cookie warnings in websites, I came across contradicting explanations on the EU Cookie law and the changes in the legislation made recently (2019). According to https://www.privacypolicies.com/blog/eu-cookie-law/, a simple warning to indicate our usage of cookies would suffice to comply with the law. They underscore this with a good example, the UK Information Commissioner office website (https://ico.org.uk/). This is the website for ICO, the independent authority in UK that enforces the cookie law in the country. However, the interpretation of the law by this website, https://www.cookiebot.com/en/cookie-banner/, says that we should provide options to the user "to opt-in or opt-out of various types of cookies". Cookiebot is a tool that we could register to that fixes compliance problem. However, I am not sure if that's necessary for our purposes.