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Rhys ap Gwent, solicitor and data protection specialist at Morgan LaRoche, advises on how to avoid being a target for opportunistic data claims.

If your setting’s website uses cookies, you may become a target for claims by opportunists alleging that your use of cookies breaches their data protection rights, and that you owe them compensation as a result.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are downloaded onto your device by websites that you visit. They have a number of purposes, including distinguishing you from other visitors and remembering your preferences. It is thanks to cookie technology that you will often notice a product that you have browsed on one website appearing in an advert elsewhere.

What does the law say about cookies?

If your website uses cookies, you are required by law to tell visitors, explain what the cookies are doing and to get their consent before placing the cookie on their device.

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