{"id":6395,"date":"2022-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:20:55","slug":"consequences-of-not-having-a-legal-notice-or-a-cookie-banner-on-my-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/en\/consequences-of-not-having-a-legal-notice-or-a-cookie-banner-on-my-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Consequences of not having a Legal Notice or a Cookie Banner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2025, we care about your website, so we recommend reading this article to avoid penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a website or an online store and do not have a <strong>Legal Notice<\/strong> or a <strong>Cookie Banner<\/strong>, you are putting your business at risk. You could face administrative penalties from the <strong>Spanish Data Protection Agency<\/strong> and lose potential customers by not offering them trust and transparency. <a href=\"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/escaner-de-cookies\/?_gl=1*3jkh2m*_up*MQ..*_ga*OTg1NDg3NDgwLjE3Mzg3NDc2OTM.*_ga_PVQTMLESR8*MTczODc0NzY5My4xLjAuMTczODc0NzY5My4wLjAuMA..\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/escaner-de-cookies\/?_gl=1*3jkh2m*_up*MQ..*_ga*OTg1NDg3NDgwLjE3Mzg3NDc2OTM.*_ga_PVQTMLESR8*MTczODc0NzY5My4xLjAuMTczODc0NzY5My4wLjAuMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Audit your website <\/strong><\/a>and check if it complies with regulations with Lawwwing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain is one of the EU countries with the highest number of fines compared to others. Specifically, in <strong>2021<\/strong>, the <strong>Spanish Data Protection Agency<\/strong> issued <strong>352 fines<\/strong>, amounting to <strong>\u20ac36.7 million<\/strong> in penalties. This means an <strong>average fines of \u20ac105,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having both a <strong>Legal Notice<\/strong> and a <strong>Cookie Banner<\/strong> on your website is essential to comply with regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Legal Notice<\/strong> is the commonly used term for the set of legally required information that a website must provide under the <strong>Law on Information Society Services<\/strong>. It must be <strong>permanently visible<\/strong> to the user\u2014typically found at the bottom of the website via a hyperlink. It not only informs users about who is behind the website but also provides guarantees and trust, allowing them to verify information before deciding to use the services offered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the <strong>Cookie Banner<\/strong>, it is the <strong>pop-up notification<\/strong> that appears when you visit a website, informing users about the type of cookies being used. If you want to learn more about what cookies are, we explain it in detail [here]. This pop-up must also <strong>act as a cookie blocker<\/strong>, meaning <strong>no cookies should be installed without the user\u2019s explicit and informed consent<\/strong>. Additionally, users must be given the option to <strong>modify their consent at any time, easily and transparently<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a website and want to avoid legal concerns, or if you need more information, feel free to contact us at <strong>hola@lawwwing.com<\/strong> we\u2019ll be happy to help!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Lawwwing Team<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a website or an online store and do not have a Legal Notice or a Cookie Banner, you are putting your business at risk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[364,214,210,209,200,208,201,211,202,327,328,206,330],"tags":[360,370,409,403,408],"class_list":["post-6395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2025-3","category-cookies-policy-en","category-data-protection","category-gdpr-en","category-legal-notice","category-lopd-en","category-privacy-en","category-privacy-policy-en","category-rgpd-en","category-shopify-en","category-terms-and-conditions-en","category-web-legal-texts","category-wordpress-en","tag-2025-2","tag-aepd","tag-cookie-banner","tag-fines","tag-leagl-notice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6395"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6731,"href":"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions\/6731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawwwing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}