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Kingsley
#1 2011-09-11 19:24

Soo,

on this part of the planet there's a lot going on when it comes down to privacy, cookies, tracking etc..
I was wondering if Cotonti is going to get influenced by those rules? Or if Cotonti is going to provide some easy or simple options to comply to those rules.

I have seen some other CMS systems that already have (for example) the option to select if cookies must be used (or not) when logging in.

Maybe it's wise to implement this in Cotonti to, for all those European Cotonti users that are affected by those rules.

For me personally it's something in the category 'meh, why bother', my sites are small and do not attract a lot of visitors. Besides a twit and Fb button I do not have anything that tracks,logs, or dissect my visitors. But I can imagine that there are some large European sites that use cotonti and some kind of tracking system (like google a.o.) which are directly influenced by these new rules
 

Just my 2 cents..

schulle4u
#2 2011-09-12 08:07

Hi,

Maybe I'm wrong, but when logging into cotonti you can select wether to store a permament coockie or not using the checkbox in the login area. All other parts of cotonti should be privacy-friendly in my opinion, because there are no external services enabled by default such as Akismet, google hosted jquery, facebook, twitter, recaptcha etc.

Steffen

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GHengeveld
#3 2011-09-12 14:16

Cookies are only used if a user checks 'remember me', or if 'force remember me' is enabled in admin>config>users. Cotonti does not rely on cookies in order to work correctly. It is one of the 'lightest' systems around when it comes to using cookies. No need to worry about those european regulations (which are probably not going to become laws anyway). Most of the concept laws / regulations involve 3rd party cookies used by advertisement networks. Cotonti's cookies don't belong in that category.