The ‘cookie law’ was passed by the European Union last year, but the UK government allowed an extra year’s grace before treating it as law here. That period of grace ceased at the end of May 2012.
The new law affects millions of websites across the EU. To find out how it affects yours, read on.
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website can store on your computer to help keep track of a variety of things, for example if you want to stay logged into a website, or your preferences within a website.
Our cookies help us to:
Make our website work as you’d expect
Remember your settings during and between visits
Improve the speed/security of the site
Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Twitter
Make it easier to improve our website
Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
Pass data to advertising networks
Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below:
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Remembering your search settings
Allowing you to add comments to our site
Social Website Cookies – So you can easily ‘Like’ or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site. The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so, however, will limit the functionality of our website (and a large proportion of the world’s websites) as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
Sheria ya kuki ilipitishwa na Umoja wa Ulaya mwaka jana, lakini serikali ya Uingereza iliruhusu msamaha wa mwaka wa ziada kabla ya kuichukua kama sheria hapa. Kipindi hicho cha msamaha kilikoma mwishoni mwa Mei 2012. Sheria hiyo mpya inahusu mamilioni ya tovuti katika EU. Ili kujua jinsi unavyoweza kufanya hivyo, soma. Keki ni nini? Cookie ni faili ndogo ya maandishi ambayo tovuti inaweza kuhifadhi kwenye kompyuta yako ili kusaidia kufuatilia mambo mbalimbali, kwa mfano, kama unataka kukaa logged katika tovuti, au upendeleo wako ndani ya tovuti. Cookies zetu kutusaidia kufanya tovuti yetu kazi kama wewe ingekuwa kutarajia kukumbuka mipangilio yako wakati na kati ya ziara kuboresha kasi ya tovuti, usalama, kuruhusu kushiriki kurasa na mitandao ya kijamii kama Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn na Twitter kufanya hivyo rahisi kuboresha tovuti yetu kukusanya taarifa yoyote ya kibinafsi (bila ruhusa yako ya wazi) kukusanya taarifa yoyote nyeti (bila ruhusa yako ya wazi) kupitisha data kwa mitandao ya matangazo ya biashara kupitisha taarifa binafsi kwa watu wa tatu kulipa tume ya mauzo. Kukumbuka mipangilio yako ya utafutaji: Kukuruhusu kuongeza maoni kwenye tovuti yetu: Cookies za Tovuti ya Jamii: Ili uweze kwa urahisi <unk> Kama <unk> au kushiriki maudhui yetu kwenye Facebook na Twitter, tumejumuisha vifungo vya kushiriki kwenye tovuti yetu. Matokeo ya faragha juu ya hii yatatofautiana kutoka kwa mtandao wa kijamii hadi mtandao wa kijamii na itategemea mipangilio ya faragha uliyoichagua kwenye mitandao hii. Cookies za Takwimu za Mgeni zisizo na jina: Kufunga Cookies Kwa kawaida unaweza kuzima Cookies kwa kurekebisha mipangilio ya kivinjari chako ili kuzuia kukubali Cookies. Kufanya hivyo, hata hivyo, itapunguza utendaji wa tovuti yetu (na sehemu kubwa ya tovuti za ulimwengu) kama kuki ni sehemu ya kawaida ya tovuti nyingi za kisasa.