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  • Optanon - simple opt-in cookie compliance for your website.

  • On 26th May 2012 all UK websites must offer users opt-in consent tools to allow cookies that pass information about your browsing activities to 3rd parties. Optanon is a managed software service that enables you to make your website compliant.

  • Audit, manage, be cookie legal

  • Developed with input from privacy lawyers and the Information Comissioner's Office, Optanon is a suite of tools that defines your compliance risk under EU cookie law and enables practical, effective compliance through our managed service.

  • Privacy law is complex - compliance is simple

  • The issues surrounding the new EU Privacy Directive are far reaching, however most websites simply need to offer opt-in consent to set 3rd party cookies on user PCs. Optanon ensures dynamically updated compliance for a simple annual license fee from £295 plus VAT.

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On May 26th 2011 a new EU originated law came into effect that requires website owners to make significant changes to their sites and may fundamentally change the whole web browsing and shopping experience for everybody.This Cookie Law is amended privacy legislation that requires websites to obtain informed consent from visitors before they can store or retrieve any information on a computer or any other web connected device.

 

Cookies are used by almost all websites, for a variety of purposes:

- Analysis of visitor behaviour (known as 'analytics')
- To personalise pages and remember visitor preferences.
- To manage shopping carts in online stores
- To track people across websites and deliver targeted advertising