The new guidelines on website cookies, presented by the Privacy Guarantor in July, have been in force since 9 January 2022.

What must companies do to comply with the legislation relating to cookies?

From a legal point of view, the news is that companies will no longer be able to use cookies and other tracking tools on the basis of "legitimate interest"; in other words they will always have to ask for the user's consent. The only exception: cookies that do not track or profile. Technical ones and similar to them as long as they only provide aggregate statistics, therefore they do not track in any way the individual user or computer, mobile phone (no IP address). However, the use of these cookies must be communicated on the home page or in the general information of the site. Arteddica Clevertron uses exclusively technical cookies.