How to adopt your website to the new data protection law

Maybe you have an ecommerce or you have a form on your website to subscribe to your newsletter, you allow users to leave comments on your blog or users to leave their information so that you can contact them, in any of these cases, you have to pay attention because your website may not be complying with the new Data Protection Law.

It doesn’t matter if your website is a commercial website or not, if you collect data from your customers you must comply with the RGPD. If you are lost and do not know how to adapt your website to this new regulation, here are the steps to follow to have your website in order. Take note!

Steps to follow to comply with the new Data Protection Law

  1. Have a mandatory box where the user consents to the collection of their personal data.
  2. Collect and store consent.
  3. It provides users with a summary with information on who will be responsible for their data, for what purpose they will be used and inform them of their right to access, rectify, oppose and cancel their data, as well as the right to be forgotten and data portability. This information must be included in all web forms.
  4. Add in a separate URL or window all the information related to the Privacy Policy, the Cookies Policy and the Legal Notice.

You have everything ready!

What do I do with my old subscribers?

In case you have collected data before this law, what you must do to be able to use it is to send them an email informing them of the new Data Protection Law and include a button for them to give their explicit consent.

If you need help to adapt your website or carry out a consent renewal campaign, contact us and find out without obligation.

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