The ICO exists to empower you through information.

This consultation closes on 14 March 2025;

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is consulting on this draft updated guidance on storage and access technologies (previously known as the ‘detailed cookies guidance’).

Your responses will help us to provide any additional further clarity required in the final guidance update.

Respond to the consultation via SmartSurvey here.

You can also respond to the consultation by contacting us at [email protected].

We welcome feedback to the questions set out in the survey. This survey is split into the following sections:

  • Section 1: Your views on our proposed regulatory approach
  • Section 2: Questions to assess the impact of our approach
  • Section 3: About you and your organisation
  • Section 4: Final comments

The consultation will remain open until 5pm on Friday 14 March 2025. We may not consider responses received after the deadline.

This survey will take around 15 - 20 minutes to complete.

Impact Assessment

We have produced a draft impact assessment to accompany this draft guidance.

The draft impact assessment is available here.

We are seeking feedback on this draft impact assessment through the above survey to inform the final version, which will accompany the final updated guidance.

Privacy statement

For this consultation we may publish in full the responses received from organisations or a summary of the responses. If we do publish any responses, we will remove email addresses and telephone numbers from these responses. Please do not to share any information in your response which you would not be happy for us to make publicly available.

Should we receive an FOI request for your response we will always seek to consult with you for your views on the disclosure of this information before any decision is made. For more information about what we do with personal data please see our privacy notice. Please note that we are using the platform SmartSurvey to gather this information. Any data collected by SmartSurvey for the ICO is stored on UK servers. You can read their Privacy Policy and Notice here.