{"id":457,"date":"2019-12-06T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=457"},"modified":"2020-12-08T21:27:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T20:27:56","slug":"data-protection-fine-in-spain-over-30-000-euro-for-an-incorrect-use-of-a-cookie-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Data protection fine in Spain &#8211; over 30.000 Euro for an incorrect use of a cookie banner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Spanish data protection authority has recently imposed a fine of 30,000 euro&nbsp;on the low-cost airline Vueling for a cookie banner that violates Spanish data protection law.<br>In addition to the ruling of the European Court of Justice in October, several decisions of the Spanish data protection authority (&#8222;AEPD&#8220;) have also been published in recent weeks. In addition, the current legislation on cookies has been interpreted by the Spanish data protection authority. The following format (&#8222;Vueling model&#8220;) is therefore considered acceptable by the authority:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>No cookies when accessing the website<\/strong>:&nbsp;<em>No<\/em>&nbsp;cookies are initially set when the website is visited.*<\/li><li><strong>Cookie banner<\/strong>: In the lower part of the website, a banner is displayed asking for the user&#8217;s consent.<\/li><li><strong>Cookies on click<\/strong>:&nbsp;If the user clicks on the &#8222;Agree and continue surfing&#8220; button, all cookies are set and the banner disappears.<\/li><li><strong>&#8222;Cookie Manager&#8220;<\/strong>: Alternatively, the user can click on a second button called (for example) &#8222;Manage Settings&#8220;. This opens a popup (the &#8222;Cookie Manager&#8220;) similar to the &#8222;Lufthansa Model&#8220;, which contains information about the individual cookies and allows individual cookies to be deselected or consent to be completely rejected.<\/li><li><strong>No cookies when ignoring the banner<\/strong>: If the user ignores the banner and simply continues to use the website, the banner remains unchanged and no cookies are set.<\/li><li><strong>Imprint and privacy policy<\/strong>: it is important that the banner does not cover the links to the imprint and privacy policy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>*<em>Required<\/em>&nbsp;cookies may be set in any case even before any decision of the user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish data protection authority has recently imposed a fine of 30,000 euro&nbsp;on the low-cost airline Vueling for a cookie banner that<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=457\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}