Re: Cookie Free Site?

Edit:
>Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>Rather than extensive redesign - have you looked into having a public 
>privacy policy available?  Most major sites have one nowadays!

Yup, I have suggested it numerous times ;-) For whatever reason they don't
want a PP.

>The idea is "Cookies can be GOOD provided you tell the user EXACTLY why you 
>are using them" - eg to stop them getting the same question twice in a 
>survey.  When explained in simple terms it sometimes

Correct, however in this case they don't want to hear it. Bad case of
technophobia - anything they don't/can't/won't understand is bad.

>You could also look into the initiatives of the W3C with respect to privacy 
>(although this is still under development the last time I looked).

As a stopgap one can use:
http://www.truste.org/wizard/

And of course it might not hurt to get a professional legal opinion when
modifying.

A lot of good responese on this thread about the education aspect. I did
make several attempts to educate all of the points suggested in this thread. 

As another poster pointed out, it will likely cost them $X in conversion
and the choice is theirs.

Thanks all for the help,






Michael Ricker
Webmaster
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