I'm putting together a shopsite website for our UK audience. We're just
about ready to launch, however, our UK legal council just hit us with a
minor snag. Apparently they don't like the fact that Shopsite drops a
cookie to save address information when you either populate it or order.
They claim (and I agree) it's a bit of a privacy risk especially in
cases where someone might be ordering on a public or work computer. In
short they want it disabled. It's a minor inconvenience to the
customer, but truthfully they have the option of registering if they
want their address info saved
Anyway to placate them I've been modifying some Javascript to go in and
delete the cookie that saves this info (either on the receipt page, or
end of session, whatever comes first). The thing is, Shopsite writes
quite a few cookies it seems. There's what appears to be a master
cookie which contains this information. However, deleting it doesn't
fix the issue.
Instead there's a secondary cookie called SBID which appears to control
this aspect. Deleting it fixes the issue. However, Shopsite appears to
occasionally write this cookie as SBID1.
What I trying to ask is what cookie(s) should I be targeting to disable
this feature. If it's the SBID cookies, then will Shopsite keep
appending numbers to them, or do I just have to worry about looking for
SBID and SBID1?
Thanks!
Rick G.
rgualtie@maidenform.com