Hello , 

Most people will know about the controversial "EU Cookie Directive" that was passed into law recently.
The directive is actually an extension of the "Data Protection Act"

Although I am personally against this legislation and feel that it is uncalled for, XMS Systems will implement a method that will allow the users to choose if they want to allow cookies or not.

This is currently under development and can be tested at http://www.leadingwebexposure.com

Information that every website knows about you:

• Your IP address
  With that information it is easy enough to "geolocate" you with a fair amount of accuracy to your place of residence (down to your city)
• Who you Internet service provider (ISP) is.
  If your ISP plays along we can even get your home or business address. Usually a court order is needed for this.
• What browser you are using
• What version of that browser you are using.
• What operating system is installed on your computer (e.g. Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux...)
• What your screen size and resolution is
• We can even see a list of fonts that are installed on your computer
• A lot more information than you would care to read about...

Your IP address and basic browser information is stored on the server of every website you have ever visited

How will we give your visitor a choice to "accept cookies" or "opt-out" from them?

• First of all we will attempt to figure out what country they are coming from.  (we have the IP address so it is simply a matter of looking it up in a database)
• Next the user will be redirected to a page explaining what cookies are all about and given the choice to "Continue" or "Refuse Cookies"
• if the wrong choice was made, a link to "Reset all Cookies" and "Set Non EU Cookies" will be available at the bottom of the page.
• Reset all cookies will obviously restart the whole process.
• Set Non EU Cookies is in essence the same as accepting all cookies, the only difference is that the eu_directive cookie will be set to non_eu.

The whole process will make the site slower so we save information in a cookie (SIC) to avoid slowing things down every time the same visitor comes along.

What you will have to do?

• Enable the module by...
• Ticking a couple of boxes to define the countries in the EU, and probably the rest of the world soon, that have this requirement.
• Review the content that we have defined in the "Cookie" page.

Please visit http://www.leadingwebexposure and test the functionality.  All visitors will be directed to the "cookie page" during the testing phase.

Please let us know if you experience any issues.