Legal Matters: Beware of the Cookie Monster

Examples of information that's likely to be considered "strictly necessary" include the following: cookies that are used to remember the goods users wish to buy when they proceed to checkout or add goods to their shopping baskets; cookies that are installed to provide the level of security necessary to comply with EU data protection requirements for an activity that the user has requested (e.g., online banking services); and cookies that ensure the content of a web page loads quickly by distributing the workload across numerous computers.