What is GDPR and why does it affect you?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is legislation update made by European Union in order to tighten up the rules for data protection of EU citizens. This European regulation will affect millions of businesses, non-profit organizations and websites all around the world – not only in the EU. Why?
[READ: GDPR in a simplified infographics]
The reason why it affects (almost) everyone is that it’s not taking into account your location. It doesn’t matter if your company is based in the US or anywhere else outside the EU. If any of your web visitors or any of your customers is EU citizen, you’re obliged to comply with all of the GDPR requirements.
Are you collecting e-mails for newsletter or addresses for product delivery? You have to comply with GDPR.
Date when GDPR comes into effect is 25th May 2018.
Real life example of GDPR
When a personal information is being collected – e.g. e-mail required to fill in into the contact form or when you’re leaving a comment under a blog post, there has to be a clear reason stated why is this personal data required.
What are we preparing for our customers
In relation to the new legislation we’re working on several changes in our products, especially portal themes and portal plugins. These changes will allow you to update your websites easily in respect to GDPR rules for personal data protection.
One of the changes is update of Contact form element. We’re adding an editable help text to each input. You can use it to explain to your web users the necessity and reason for collection of their personal data. We’re also implementing changes into a Quick Comments Plugin. You’ll be able to insert text expressing the consent of data collection. Mailchimp integration will be added to the settings.
New GDPR ready plugins
In a next few days, we’ll be introducing new features to accommodate GDPR requirements:
- Infobar Plugin – customizable information bar on your website, which can be closed by a web visitor.
- Comments Extension Plugin – plugin will let you add text input to the WordPress comments.
- Ait Subscribe Form Element – element that you can use to add subscribe form anywhere on your website through the Page Builder. It will log the subscription activity of your web users.
We’ll be releasing our new GDPR friendly plugins one by one in a next few days so our customers can start working with them as soon as possible. In a meantime, we’ll be implementing all of the above mentioned changes into our portal themes and plugins up until 25th May 2018.
Our intention is to provide technical solution for our themes and plugins to help you meet GDPR requirements while processing personal data of your customers. Each company is responsible for the full compliance with data protection law. Please, talk to your lawyer to get full information on GDPR and to make sure you’re fully compliant with this regulation. Ait Themes is not responsible for GDPR implementation on their client’s websites.
Crearon un plugin para ayudarnos?
Hello Ernest,
thanks for your comment. Indeed, we provide all of our products EU GDPR compliant.
Best regards!
Zlatko
This is wonderful news! Thanks for all your hard work.
Hi there,
thanks for your compliments!
Have a nice day!
Zlatko
It is time for you to implement the possibility of adding google recaptcha to the comment form, as you use it.
Hello Pablo,
thanks for asking. We are sorry, we have no plan to create new plugin, we used to use the current one provided by a 3rd party developer.
Thanks for understanding.
Kind!
Zlatko
Great you’re working on such tools, we need them ASAP :). Do you plan anything for cookie consent, that would automatically turn off cookie part of HTML, in case of disagreement?
Hello Peter,
thanks for asking. Currently we have no plan to implement it, anyhow we’ll consider it and make decision whether to create such a plugin and release it for the market.
Thanks for understanding.
Kind!
Zlatko
Title …please visit the web-sites we comply with, such as this a single, as it represents our picks from the web…
Hi there,
thanks a lot for your feedback. We highly appreciate it.
Kind!
Zlatko
Where are those plugins?
Hi there,
thanks for asking. As stated above, we are going to release them within coming hours/days. Please stay tuned 😉
Have a nice day!
Zlatko
Thank you so much, everybody! xoxo
Hello,
for our privacy policy (GDPR) in Germany (DSGVO), we need a contract data processing agreement wiht your company….? Where we could get it?
Hello Claudia,
thanks for asking. Please check out detailed info posted at: https://www.ait-themes.club/complete-list-of-updates-for-gdpr-blog/
Should you have further questions please contact us back.
Best regards!
Zlatko
AIT team