The recent guidance issued by the Spanish Data Protection Authority (DPA) on cookies proposes a new exemption for analytics cookies used for strictly limited first party anonymised and aggregated statistical purposes.  In this episode of Fieldfisher's Bytesize Legal Update podcast, legal advisor Pardeep Dhanoya and senior associate Andrea Ortega provide an overview of the EU and UK cookie rules and explain what cookies are exempt from user consent. They also outline how the recent guidance from the Spanish DPA sits in the framework of existing cookie rules and guidance, what it changes, and what the conditions are to qualify for the exemptions with some specific examples.