European Tour cookies ???

[sev112]

So i go on the European Tour website to get the leaderboard for the Johnnie Walker comp which is coming to a close
It tells me to accept or reject cookies. So i reject.
So it tells me i cant access it's leaderboard.

Perhaps one of the more IT-wise guys can tell me why it needs to monitor my computer to be able to tell me who came 10th in the competition ???

I've relatively recently started not using ifnormation sites that use cookies as some sort of principle, but what it their pupose in this case ???

 

[pbrown7582]

The cookies policy has recently changed and every web site now seems to have to display its cookie policy.

 

[chrisd]

An EU directive I think!

 

[Evesdad]

Yeah quite a few have started this, I think even the GM site.

 

[DappaDonDave]

"Session Cookies are also used by the server to store information about user page activities so users can easily pick up where they left off on the server's pages. By default, web pages really don't have any 'memory'. Cookies tell the server what pages to show the user so the user doesn't have to remember or start navigating the site all over again. Cookies act as a sort of “bookmark” within the site. Similarly, cookies can store ordering information needed to make shopping carts work instead of forcing the user to remember all the items the user put in the shopping cart."

That will probably be why.