{"id":15485,"date":"2018-05-17T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/?p=15485"},"modified":"2018-12-31T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T00:50:10","slug":"will-your-wordpress-website-be-gdpr-compliant-by-may-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/will-your-wordpress-website-be-gdpr-compliant-by-may-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Will your WordPress Website be GDPR Compliant by May 25th?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you\u2019ve been getting a lot of &#8220;<strong>Updates to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use&#8221;<\/strong> notices in your email box lately, you should know that these companies are informing you not because they feel like it, but because they have to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And it all has to do with the EU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">On May 25th, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) enacted by the European Union in January of 2016 will come into effect. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The GDPR is a tough new regulation aimed at helping users control their data collected by online companies and to force companies to tighten up their protection of user data. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">And, the Europeans are not fooling around when it comes to punishments. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Penalties for non compliance can be \u20ac 20 million OR up to 4% of the company\u2019s worldwide annual profits of the preceding year, whichever is higher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The GDPR was not developed as a reaction to the data breaches of Equifax, nor the abuses of Cambridge Analytica, but rather a response to an overall trend toward abuse of personal data on the Internet around the world. The Europeans are just being super cautious. Or something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">If you are wondering if GDPR applies to your WordPress website, ask yourself:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s1\">Am I selling online products or services within any European Union countries?<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s1\">Is my site engaging with EU citizens living anywhere in the world?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">If you answered yes to either question, then you need to comply with GDPR. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Or, prepare to face the firing squad.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Are you GDPR compliant?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">To figure out if your WordPress website is GDPR compliant, consider the many ways WordPress sites collect user data:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s1\">user registrations<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s1\">comments<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s1\">contact form entries<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s1\">analytics and traffic log solutions<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s1\">logging tools and plugins<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s1\">security tools and plugins<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Relative to all those engagements, your WordPress site needs to: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s1\">give users a notification of any security breaches within 72 hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s1\">give users the Right to Access their data,\u00a0the Right to Be Forgotten by having their data erased,\u00a0and\u00a0Data Portability by downloading their own data<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s1\">have all its plugins and third party tools compliant to the GDPR<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Getting compliant<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Here are a few practical ways to bring your site into compliance with GDPR:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Use a security plugin to audit your site to reveal places where and data is being collected and processed. This includes plugins and third-party services. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mailchimp.com\/gdpr-forms-and-more-tools\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=gdpr&amp;utm_term=us-users&amp;utm_content=gdpr-tools-from-mailchimp&amp;mc_cid=66d0c9a79b&amp;mc_eid=178181ddda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here\u2019s what Mailchimp is doing.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Once you\u2019re determined where user data is coming from, put mechanisms in place which allow them to modify or delete their data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Write a Privacy Policy informing users of their rights under GDPR similar to any number of policies being floated. Post the policy around the site, anywhere data might be collected.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">If you\u2019re using a checkbox to opt-in users by default, kill it. That\u2019s a violation waiting to be caught.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Kill any unnecessary contact forms and replace them with simply email addresses (obfuscated to prevent being scraped).<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">If you have an email list collected with little oversight, send a notice to your list requesting users to reconfirm their listing, along with your privacy policy notice. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Remember how four years ago, Canadians went through a similar process when the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/canadian-anti-spam-law-bloggers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Anti-Spam Law<\/a> came into effect? Do that.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more ideas on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codeinwp.com\/blog\/complete-wordpress-gdpr-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how to comply with GDPR, check out this guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Compliance starts at home<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15489\" src=\"https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GDPR-pepe-le-pew-le-sigh-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GDPR-pepe-le-pew-le-sigh-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GDPR-pepe-le-pew-le-sigh-200x216.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GDPR-pepe-le-pew-le-sigh-139x150.jpg 139w, https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GDPR-pepe-le-pew-le-sigh.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/>As for this site, I will soon inform my subscribers of my privacy policy and their right to be forgotten or change their data. All of them have registered in a double opt-in form, so no need to reaffirm them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">In general, I don\u2019t use many contact forms, but the ones I use will now have privacy notices attached.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">But that\u2019s just this site. The GDPR compliance process needs to be repeated for all the sites I control. There goes the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Le sigh.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Let&#8217;s c<span class=\"s1\">ommiserate!<\/span>\u00a0How are you complying with GDPR? How long have you known about it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/web-services\/wordpress-tutorial\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15294 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Learn-WP-now-1024x513.png\" alt=\"Learn WordPress now!\" width=\"1024\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Learn-WP-now-1024x513.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Learn-WP-now-200x100.png 200w, https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Learn-WP-now-500x250.png 500w, https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Learn-WP-now-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Learn-WP-now-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Learn-WP-now-768x385.png 768w, https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Learn-WP-now-780x391.png 780w, https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Learn-WP-now-1120x561.png 1120w, https:\/\/blogsitestudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Learn-WP-now.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GDPR is a tough new regulation aimed at helping users control their data collected by online companies and to force these companies to tighten up their use and protection of user data. 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