If you start a business website and you are collecting other people's information of any kind, you need to pay attention to the way you collect, store, and use other people's information. This is a GDPR Summary – and a public announcement – you should look into GDPR no matter where you live!
I stumbled upon Are You GDPR Ready? What Marketers Need to Know where Kim Garst goes through the main points and gives action steps to make changes to your privacy policy and email policy – both written and in practice!
I don't live in the UK – and this is a UK policy, right? No. Really. This applies to everyone!
If you have even ONE European resident as a customer or email subscriber, GDPR most certainly applies to you…and failing to comply could cost you BIG TIME! 💶💲 https://t.co/1uyoIHnU91 via @kimgarst
— Heather Plude (@heather_plude) May 13, 2018
Here is the link to the actual policy. Information Commissioner's Office But it might as well be written in another language. I just was not grasping what to do.
Kim Garst tells you what to do about GDPR in plain English. I suggest you go read what Kim wrote on this subject. She makes it easy to see what needs to be done and why.
I made a few changes to my Privacy Policy page on this blog – and I am definitely keeping Kim's page on GDPR as a reference so I can make sure my other Privacy Policies on other sites comply.
No joke. Look into GDPR. We need to do everything we can to safeguard our visitor & customer information – there are common sense steps you can take to make your business compliant to GDPR.
At one point in Kim's blog she suggests you switch your blog from http to https – and this is a good suggestion – but ever since I switched I have taking a hit in my blog's Trust Flow.
I saw where she says, “make sure Google knows you’ve made this switch” and links to the Google “change of address tool” I was all excited because I thought I might be able to fix the fact that both URLs are showing up in the search results when only https should be ranking at all.
Unfortunately, the Google change of address tool says on their site:
Note: The tool does not currently support the following kinds of site moves: subdomain name changes, protocol changes (from HTTP to HTTPS), or path-only changes.
How do you change http to https in Google Analytics
Main points of the GDPR
You have to be super careful with the way you collect, store and use people's personal information – you need to be transparent about your privacy policy and show how you are safeguarding the information you do collect – and this includes any tracking and analytics you have on your site.
I'm not going to go into detail because as I already stated – the best places to go for the info are:
- Kim Garst's blog – Are You GDPR Ready?
- Information Commissioner's Office
- Your own personal lawyer or legal council
Here is a link to my privacy policy after I made a few tweaks!
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Thank you for the reminder. Some really essential information here. Its never easy for me to get my head around these new regs but your information has helped.
Thanks – glad I could help. I agree- it’s not easy to understand!
I wasn’t aware of this so thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Constant changes are brought in all the time and something we just have to adapt to.
I have bookmarked the Kim Garst link and will give it a good read.
Thanks
These changes to comply with GDPR did not take too long – reading the article takes longer than the actual changes. But it’s important to know why you need to make changes!
Wola! I never had the thought that GDPR would strike this much severity. But after reading your article, my hairs had arisen for fear of not being GDPR compliant.
Now I must read about it between the lines as shown by Kim Garst’s blog.
Thank you so much for sharing this useful information which is a mandatory process for every marketer and website owner.
Additionally, kindly keep updating such useful information in the near future.
Wishing you all the best in your online journey.
Thanks so much! I am glad you got something out of it – even if it is just that there is something to get!
Hi! Thanks this has highlighted something that I have heard about, but not fully understood. I think it’s great that you are providing a site for people looking to work from home. As a mum, this is my goal too! I am learning about so many interesting things, very different to my previous employment, so thank you for your contribution to this. 😉
That’s awesome! I had heard about it – but not understood it too. As a mum myself, working from home is the reason I have been able to be there for my children. I’m sure you will learn everything you need to be successful. You are in the right place!