GDPR

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  carrisamarie · Member · May 24, 2018 at 7:38 pm

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  Hello, I have a simple website on WordPress.com, but am curious if I need to do anything to comply with GDPR if my website allows comments or allows people to follow or follow via email?

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  timethief · Member · May 24, 2018 at 7:47 pm

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  See the sticky post at the top of these forums please: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/about-the-gdpr/

  This thread is also tagged for a Staff follow-up.

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  supernovia · Staff · May 24, 2018 at 11:47 pm

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  @carrisamarie this section on site owners may help:
  https://automattic.com/automattic-and-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/

  This too:
  http://ec.europa.eu/justice/smedataprotect/index_en.htm

  We’re giving you tools to show consent banners and comply with data removal requests.

  I hope this helps. Please refer to the rest of the resources in that sticky post — there’s a lot of information but it’s worth reading!