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> The cookie policy

No. It isn't a "cookie policy".

The GDPR states I must give a specific opt-in approval to provide my personal data and allow it to be passed on.

You can use as many cookies as you like, but if you want to track me personally (advertisers take a bow) then you need my specific consent to do so. And so you should.

I'm amazed I have to keep explaining this to American web designers who should know better. This has been law in the UK and EU for quite some time now and is a prerequisite to doing business here.

The GDPR is a bloody good law. It makes the gathering of unnecessary personal data a liability, as it should be. See here: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...



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