PDCOB 7.2 Cookies

1A firm that wishes to use cookies, pixels, tags or similar technologies to track customers, is, in particular, reminded of the following requirements in the data protection legislation and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR):

1. (1)

   the requirement to obtain the customer’s consent for that technology to be used, unless the conditions in the PECR are satisfied.

2. (2)

   that the acceptance of non-essential cookies should not be a pre-condition of using any of the services on the pensions dashboard platform.