Assist compliance with UK cookie law/EU cookie directive by listing the cookies your website uses using the [cookies] shortcode. depends on oik.
Use the [cookies] shortcode to produce a table of all the cookies your WordPress site uses; showing cookie name, category, description and duration.
In April 2012 the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) UK issued the ICC UK cookie guide ( a 15-page / 296KB PDF report ).
The guidance, which has been welcomed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), contains information on the different categories of cookies that website operators use.
The ICC UK cookie guide suggests some standard wording to include in your website’s Privacy policy.
This wording includes: A list of all the cookies used in this website by category is set out below.
This plugin will help you to create the list.
By default the list is dynamically generated taking into account the active plugins on the website.
This plugin does not implement anything to help you obtain the user’s consent to place a cookie on their device.
There are other plugins to help you do that.
Use in conjunction with oik-privacy-policy
If you want to read more about the oik plugins then please visit the
oik plugin
“the oik plugin – for often included key-information”
This version of the plugin is provided free of charge to the WordPress community.
Its purpose is to help with the creation of your cookie catalog.
We accept no responsibility for ensuring the correctness of the information displayed.
Don’t have a go at us if your cookies are not listed or are “unknown”.
cookie-cat options section
XML feed section: showing the XML files being used
Cookie catalog - the "current" output from the [cookie] shortcode
Example showing selected cookies and plugins
cookie-cat.co.uk Mapping page - the source of the data
cookie cat Warning that data is passed to the cookie-cat server
Note: cookie-cat is dependent upon the oik plugin. You can activate it but it will not work unless oik is also activated.
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Also known as the EU e-Privacy Directive the “UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation” becomes effective in the UK on 26th May 2012.
That’s the date when the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is due to begin enforcing the new rules.
All websites that use cookies which may be delivered to devices being used in the UK or EU countries.
Steps to take:
This plugin helps with step 2.
Here’s a simple list.
For more information see cookie-cat or read the ICC UK Cookie guide
You need to activate both the oik plugin and the cookie-cat plugin.
And check the syntax of the shortcode.
The list of cookies that this plugin recognises may never be a complete list of all known cookies.
If your website delivers cookies that are not recognised then the cookie category, description and duration will be shown as “unknown”.
This is not really acceptable as the guidelines state that you’re supposed to explain “how they are used on the websites they visit”.
There are several ways to address this problem.
First you need a Privacy policy page.
If you have used the oik-privacy-policy plugin to help generate your Privacy policy page then you can write the caveat in the section that starts “A list of all the cookies used in this website by category is set out below”.
The [cookies] shortcode queries information from an XML file that contains the known information about a cookie.
If you think it’s wrong then you can do one or more of the following:
Use the “oik options > shortcode help” page, select the [cookies] entry then copy the generated “snippet”
Paste this into your Privacy policy page.
You may then wish to de-activate the cookie-cat plugin until you next change the installed plugins.
From version 1.1 the XML file can be loaded directly from the cookie-cat website.
Use oik options > cookie cat and follow the instructions in the Installation section
Note that using the Load XML function passes the names of currently active cookies to the cookie-cat server.
By using the function you authorize cookie-cat to the information that is passed.
It comes from the cookie-cat website.
Yes. Use [cookies browser=Y]
[cookies
browser=”N|Y – show browser cookies”
cookies=”|cookie1,cookie2 – Optional list of cookie names.”
plugins=”|plugin1,plugin2 – Optional list of plugin names. Defaults to ALL active plugins”
temp=”N|Y – Use the temporary cc_mapping XML file”]
If you are in the UK you should see the ICC UK Cookie Guide
Also have a look at the links on the cookie-cat website.