Re: [Koha] Use of Google Analytics and +1 on Koha website
Hello MJ,
can Piwik be used in opt-in mode? That is, no tracking unless the user consents.
It seems the next version of Piwik, due out in the next few days, will feature a cookie-free option to satisfy the UK's new "cookie law." Piwik does offer an option, in its privacy settings, to anonymize visitors' IP addresses ("to comply with your local privacy laws/guidelines," it says), as well as the opt-out link already mentioned. But that may not meet your specific needs. I suppose it depends on the interpretation… I've read two interpretations of the law just now: 1. Providing a prominent disclaimer mentioning that you're using analytics and cookies, along with an opt-out link, is enough: http://www.dailytech.com/UK+Law+Demanding+Tracking+Cookies+and+Analytics+Not... 2. Opt-out is not good enough: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/UK-Cookie-Law-Cookies-Storing-Law-Permissio... Good luck! -Peter
Peter Aronson:
Piwik does offer an option, in its privacy settings, to anonymize visitors' IP addresses ("to comply with your local privacy laws/guidelines," it says), as well as the opt-out link already mentioned. But that may not meet your specific needs. I suppose it depends on the interpretation… I've read two interpretations of the law just now:
Yeah, that'll be because ico.gov.uk that enforces this law changed their interpretation a day or two before the deadline. They now seem to allow opt-outs, which is utterly wrong and not what the legislation actually says and the last-minute U-turn will have wasted lots of money, but never mind, they're the ones who set the deadline and now they've removed it so we have to live with it! So Piwik (and Google) would comply with the current ICO interpretation of the law if an appropriate warning is displayed, as I understand it. More on this on http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8155 as stuff for Koha itself develops. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/
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