__atuvc and the eu cookie law.
Hello, I maintain a website which uses your AddThis button.
I have two questions
1. What is the content of the cookie. In an effort to comply with Irish Law i'm explaining the name, purpose, content and life of the cookies used by my site, for example other cookies on our site are Randomly generated numbers.
2. your policy states
'We also set Cookies and web beacons on web pages where our AddThis Buttons are enabled to help us with online ad targeting and to provide analytics to our website Publishers.'
Is this dependent on the implementation of the AddThis button, if not what is the position relating to the EU directive?
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner has stated
"For instance there is a need to capture a specific consent in relation to so called behavioural advertising cookies which collect information on websites visited by a user to allow for the provision of more targeted advertising as they surf the web."
Thanks
Joe
You can disable our other cookies by adding this snippet of JavaScript to your page:
<script type="text/javascript">
var addthis_config = addthis_config||{};
addthis_config.data_use_cookies = false;
</script>
I have ben trying to disable all OTHER cookies by the code provided but, unfortunately, this does not seem to work for me. I have also tried to set an addthis_config value of { data_use_cookies:false } in the advanced setting tab of the plugin (on wordpress) with not much luck. Either way, AddThis simply insists on dropping four cookies upon a click on one of its sharing buttons. The four cookies are: uid, ssh, sshs & ssc.
Is there something I am missing here? How can these cookies be disabled? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave