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Spain: AEPD fines GROW BEATS €3,000 for unlawful cookie practices
The Spanish data protection authority ('AEPD') issued, on 6 August 2020, a decision ('the Decision') in proceeding PS/00092/2020, fining GROW BEATS SL €3,000 for unlawful cookie practices. In particular, GROW BEATS had published a cookie policy on its website, in which the first layer did not contain information on the purpose for the use of cookies and the second layer did not contain information on the characteristics of the cookies that were installed, and the time period for which they will remain active in the terminal equipment of the end user. Moreover, the AEPD held that insufficient information was provided on the use of third party cookies and their management, and stated that no mechanism had been established that allows to reject all cookies.
Finally, the AEPD decided to fine GROW BEATS for these unlawful practices with €3,000.
You can read the Decision, only available in Spanish, here.
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