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With just a day to go until the cookie law “enforcement day”, the new version of our cookie audit tool is now live. Please take it for a spin!
The tool now:
- recognises more cookies
- automatically creates a custom “Cookie Information Page” for your site (see our one for an example)
- saves reports for future reference
- (coming soon) has an export function
- links into our free cookie warning button generator
- We have a bug! The tool is currently recording an extra session cookie in the Services table in the summary report. Trying to iron this out at the moment but in the meantime it’s safe to ignore it
So what if if there’s only one day to go. All you need is an hour?
Our tool does not seek to be perfect, but does aim to fill the niche of “if you only have one hour (or even less) to spend on working towards compliance, then here is a good way to spend it”.
Here’s a video overview of the tool (no I will not seek to make a living by doing voice overs!)
We really welcome your feedback and ideas for improvements in the comments below.
Known Limitations
- we don’t recognise every cookie but we will add to the database over time
- we can’t track flash cookies and local storage objects so please ask your developers about them
- we are ironing out some bugs with the “save for later” functionality
- our warning triangle may or may not be compliant.
Happy auditing!
Tags: Cookie Audit Tool, Cookie Directive, Legal
Have been having an interesting discussion on Twitter with Steve at Brightspace about whether 1 hour is a sensible claim or not (on the basis that people are managing to generate an output in about five minutes). We agreed that it is probably about right by the time you’ve delved into your cookies a bit more, tweaked your cookie information page and actaully added it to your site. What I did really like was Steve’s comment: “Its an hour to achieve compliance against a poss. £500k fine. Time well spent to me!
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Obviously we need to moderate that to “work towards compliance” until we know what compliance really looks like.
Have followed the instructions but all that happens on stop recording is a screen appears saying “please wait” and nothing else happens. Is it me doing something wrong?
Regards,
Ian B.
Hi Ian,
Thank you for using the tool and much appreciate the feedback!
I have just tested the tool in relation to it not working for you and it was all ok for me, perhaps if you could try it again and let us know how it goes that time?
Thanks,
Christie