That's how I'd interpret it as well. Although doing it that way would only be possible if you had a clean slate, surely? Otherwise there'd already be lots of signed-up users who need to accept cookies after the fact.
Also, how do you know if the person at the login form is one of the already-agreed users or not. You can't let them login to find out as that would put a cookies on their PC, which is breaking the law. You'd *have* to have the "do you accept cookies" checkbox on the login form all the time...
That's how I'd interpret it as well. Although doing it that way would only be possible if you had a clean slate, surely? Otherwise there'd already be lots of signed-up users who need to accept cookies after the fact.
Also, how do you know if the person at the login form is one of the already-agreed users or not. You can't let them login to find out as that would put a cookies on their PC, which is breaking the law. You'd *have* to have the "do you accept cookies" checkbox on the login form all the time...