Thanks all. I figured it out - it was a text highlight in the original word doc that the copy came from and when the copy was placed into indesign it must have retained the character style.
Annoyingly it wasn’t showing in any of the style panels as having been imported and changing the assigned chatacter style didn’t remove it.
It’s a 116 pages that should have gone to print yesterday, but i didn’t want to risk it printing so have just had to go through and manually retype every instance just to be sure, and there were a lot.
Question regarding GDPR - Does EU law require the ability for users to be able to reject website cookies, or can you just have a “by proceeding you consent to using cookies” notice? If the latter are there any downsides to this?
If you google anything on this you will find almost everything is preceeded by the disclaimer “this is not legal advice”
…so based that… this is not legal advice but to be fully compliant I’m fairly sure you need a reject button which is equally as prominent as the accept button.
I’m fairly confident those “if you continue to use the site” type of ones are…verrrrry iffy.
For our clients sites I’ve changed it so that even things like Google Analytics doesn’t fire until the user hits the accept button. For my clients having this black hole of missing data is worth it rather than being a top page news story.
The smaller the site the more you can get away with it.
What’s the chances of someone finding your site and realising you drop the FB pixel on a page load before a user consents? (And reporting you to the ICO?)
GDPR is a massive fucking pain in the arse tbh. It’s horrible to implent too on the website…connecting tracking tags based on cookies. Took me weeks to work out how to do it.
The more prominent you are, or if the site is funded with public money I would suggest going all out and not dropping any third party cookies until a user opts in.
If your site is low traffic/not public sector you will surely get away with firing analytics on a page load but be cautious about other tracking pixels (well lets face it…the Facebook Tracking Pixel is the only one people give a fuck about but maybe TikTok pixels these days too).
Thank you Les, yes I did a bit of reading after posting and figured that was the case. Our site isn’t huge but probably big enough not to take risks especially as we’re a charity. I’ve also read that you can be pushed down by Google for not having the right things in place, not sure how true that is.
I think this goes beyond my capabilities, time to tell the boss to bring in someone specially to get it all in place as I don’t want to be responsible for us getting fined out of existence.
