http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/eu-cook...s-for-you.html
(For owners of vBulletin https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...55#post2284755 )
Simply, unless a site says what it will do with cookies you cant use them.
And if it's a tracking cookie then there must be an opt-out.
So if you use (say) Google ad-sense you may have issues.
AP has it covered by our rules and privacy statement; and if push came to shove we would block all of the EU at the firewall level