My personal blog in WordPress.com and GDPR

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  cesa2018 · Member · May 20, 2018 at 6:28 am

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  Hi all,

  I don’t know if a “simple” personal blog published with WordPress.com is subject to compliance with GDPR.

  I will appreciate if someone can answer to this question.
  Thanks in advance for your replies.

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

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  staartmees · Member · May 20, 2018 at 6:35 am

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  You’ll find answers to your questions in the Sticky thread at the top of this forum, https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/about-the-gdpr/

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  cesa2018 · Member · May 20, 2018 at 6:53 am

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  Thanks for your reply.

  I don’t see in the post you indicate answers to my question.

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 20, 2018 at 7:37 am

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  Hi there,

  > I don’t know if a “simple” personal blog published with WordPress.com is subject to compliance with GDPR.

  Any website or online business that collects personal information from visitors to the EU are subject to this law. However, how exactly you’re subject to it depends on many factors, including the type of site you have, the type of information you collect, and how you store and use that information.

  We cannot give any advice to how the GDPR affects individual sites, but we can provide you with the information to be more transparent to your site visitors about what information is collected, and with tools to provide or delete that information if requested. The sticky post @staartmees linked to contains links to all the information available in that regard.

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  cesa2018 · Member · May 20, 2018 at 12:05 pm

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  @kokkieh

  Thanks for your reply. Sorry for my question, but I am not too technical about Web sites. And sorry in advance for my approximative english.

  Could you please simply tell me what I have to do (to be GDPR compliant) as a simple free user who has built a blog, without buying any options proposed by WordPress.com .

  So, it’s a blog with free options by default, indexed by Google, and for which I don’t ask for personal data to people, to authorize them to interact with me on the blog.

  The only personal data I can see is their IP address that WordPress.com displays on my dashboard. I don’t process this information, so you can keep it if you want.

  In this case, is there anything WordPress.com is working about, so I can install it simply ?

  Looking forward to your response, I have unfortunately unpublished my articles and comments. I have also post this message on the home page :
  “Awaiting verification of compliance of this blog with the new European regulation “General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)” applicable to May 25, 2018″

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 20, 2018 at 3:18 pm

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  Could you please simply tell me what I have to do (to be GDPR compliant) as a simple free user who has built a blog, without buying any options proposed by WordPress.com .

  No, I cannot, as that would be giving you legal advice and I am not your lawyer. No matter what upgrade you own on WordPress.com, we cannot give you that type of advice.

  So, it’s a blog with free options by default, indexed by Google, and for which I don’t ask for personal data to people, to authorize them to interact with me on the blog.

  The only personal data I can see is their IP address that WordPress.com displays on my dashboard. I don’t process this information, so you can keep it if you want.

  Please see the links mentioned in the forums sticky post and the en.blog post. They explain exactly what data we collect about users to your site, and they also say that we will be providing you with the tools you’d need to remove that data from your site if a site visitor requests it.

  In this case, is there anything WordPress.com is working about, so I can install it simply ?

  All tools we are developing to help site owners to comply with the GDPR will be available to all sites on WordPress.com. You do not need to install anything.