: Who is affected by the EU cookie law? Every source on the web keeps telling me what the cookie law is, but not whether I have to obey it or not. So I'm asking here: who must obey the

@Speyer207

Your find a lot of information by searching on Google, with any website if the website is accessible by a country or regional zone then you most comply with their rules and laws, if you don't agree then you should make attempts to notify users or block those users from your website.

Hosting a website in X, a domain in X doesn't mean it can't break laws in Y or Z.


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We're outside of the EU, are we affected?

The law is designed to protect the privacy of individuals within the
EU. In theory, this means that any website that serves EU citizens,
has to comply with respect to those citizens, regardless of who owns
the website.

In practice, as enforcement is on a country by country basis, any
company which has no legal EU presence, is going to be very hard to
pursue a case against.

This is one reason that a lot of commentators have suggested it hands
advantages to non-EU businesses. A website owned by a US company can
avoid the law and still serve content to the EU, whilst gathering
better information about visitors and enabling them to avoid
compliance notices.


If your website serves US and EU then rather than having a cookie notice for all users you could detect users based on IP and serve cookie notices for EU based audiences. Most big US websites use this method.

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