GDPR

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  sunews · Member · May 25, 2018 at 10:46 pm

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  Hi all,
  I am worried about WordPress.com’s GDPR compliance although my website is not a business. How could I make it GDPR comliant? I cannot find any widget (like cookie consent widget earlier). Your advice would be much appreciated.
  Many thanks, Asitha

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  justjennifer · Member · May 26, 2018 at 8:10 am

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  Hi there, all free sites on WordPress.com now have the Cookies & Consent widget enabled automatically on their sites. You need not add it yourself. https://en.support.wordpress.com/cookie-widget/

  Please read the sticky post at the top of this forum for more information and resources about WordPress.com and the GDPR https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/about-the-gdpr/ Come back to us here if you have any questions after reading that info.

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  justjennifer · Member · May 26, 2018 at 8:26 am

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  Also mentioning that if you had the earlier EU Cookies widget enabled, it should have updated to the new Cookies & Consent banner.

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  sunews · Member · May 26, 2018 at 1:01 pm

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  Hi Justjennifer,
  Many thanks for the reply. Cookies widget button itself doesn’t mention GDPR so that’s why I was worried. However, I believe this link it takes the user to (i.e. https://automattic.com/cookies/) has been made up-to-date to include GDPR. Is it that what you mean, please?
  Anyway, I removed all followers of the blog and planning to remove Clustr Map widget, Twitter widget, etc, which are additional features that I do not necssarily need. Trying to be as minimal as possible…
  By the way, mine is not a business. It’s just communications/ education tool on sustainability.
  Many thanks again.

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  justjennifer · Member · May 26, 2018 at 1:20 pm

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  However, I believe this link it takes the user to (i.e. https://automattic.com/cookies/) has been made up-to-date to include GDPR. Is it that what you mean, please?

  Yes, that is what I meant, but adding the widget in itself does not necessarily make your site compliant with GDPR.

  Here are links to a couple of Staff replies which might help clarify:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gdpr-15/#post-3114316
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gdpr-updating-current-user-list-for-my-blog/#post-3114360