p3p URGENT

[socrates]

Hello Mark,
I have a problem with the p3p policy. I am using integration with PHP.
I have a p3p policy but the system doesnt set the cookie/
I have tried entering the full path to the p3p.xml,tried without the file name. Still nothing.

Please advice. I started marketing today and my first affiliate made a sale but it did not register. I checked and it did not set the cookie. Explorer says could not find a privacy policy. This is very important as my affiliate was testing my program in order to start marketing it.

-socrates

[socrates]

I forgot to mention, I am using the "new style"

see one of my my sites here:
http://www.mydigitaldispatch.com/?a_aid=2&a_bid=5


-Socrates

[mark]

Hello,

in Internet Explorer, only the compact policy is important for cookies.
So your p3p.xml is not really necessary, you should only generate compact policy.

There is a tool for it for example here:
http://www.privacycouncil.com/freep3pfix.php

with regards,

mark

[socrates]

I have both, compact and xml.
It still does not work

socrates

[mark]

Hello,

most probably your browser has set 'Block all cookies', in this case even privacy policy doesn't help.

The privacy policy is sent out only if cookie is going to be saved, which is when t2.php is called with some parameters. That's why explorer can say it could not find a privacy policy.

But the privacy policy works, I tried it on your site.

To see whether it works on IE6:
1. Go to View/Privacy report... menu.
2. On Privacy Report dialog, Click Settings... button
3. On internet properties dialog, click Advanced... button on Privacy tab.
4. On Advanced Privacy Setting dialog check Overide automatic cookie handling.
5. Select prompt on third-party cookies.
6. Click OK twice and Close.
7. Open the page http://www.mydigitaldispatch.com/?a_aid=2&a_bid=5 again and it will popup the dialog whether to accept cookie.
8. Click more detail.

You should see that compact policy is defined there.
I tried your site with highest privacy settings and it worked. It blocked cookie only after I set Privacy to Block all cookies, but this is what you would expect.

Cookies are not 100% reliable, there will be always some users out there that will have them turned off.
That's why there are more methods of affiliate tracking - by IP address and PHP session.

regards,

Mark

[mark]

Hello,

one more issue was found regarding the compact policy.

For those of you that defined compact policy but cookies were still blocked - the problem was in compact policy itself.
In most of the privacy settings (from Low to High) Internet Explorer blocks all cookies that use 'personally identifiable information without your explicit consent'.

It means just having compact policy is not enough, you should define compact policy that does not say that it uses personally identifiable information.

hope it helps,

mark