SaaS suppliers and SaaS customers should take note of three recent data protection fines issued against Facebook and Google by the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL“) for non-compliant cookie banners on their websites. The fines were issued pursuant to breaches of French Data Protection Law and the GDPR and highlight
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SaaS Agreements – FAQs – Cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on a user’s hardware device, such as a computer, tablet or mobile phone which record online activity. The majority of websites use cookies to measure visits and the use of websites (analytics cookies). Cookies are often also used to save user names, passwords and user preferences to make repeated use of a website more comfortable for the user. However, increasingly cookies are being used to collect information about users for the purposes of targeted marketing, tracking and other non essential purposes.
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If you are operating a website and require users to register in order to use your website or you are simply using Google analytics on your website then you are collecting and processing personal data. Under the Data Protection Act 1998, if you collect, store or process personal data you must provide specific information to the persons whose personal data you are using. This information is usually provided to users in a privacy policy which should be published on your website.
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