Help Articles
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How to Comply with the GDPR on a WordPress Site
WordPress has made some important changes in relation to the GDPR. The changes are part of WordPress’s effort to make it easier for their users to be GDPR compliant, however simply utilizing these tools in and of themselves do not guarantee GDPR compliance. Below we’ll go through the important GDPR features, how they can benefit…
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Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution for Shopify: how to display a cookie banner and collect cookie consent
If you’re here, you’ve probably set up your Shopify shop and need to manage cookies. Or are you considering setting up your Shopify shop but are wondering how to display your cookie notice? Let’s see how to do it 👉 Once you’ve integrated the Privacy Policy on your Shopify website (which also includes the cookie…
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Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution – Jimdo Integration Guide
Once you’ve integrated the privacy policy on Jimdo (which of course also includes the cookie policy if you’ve activated it) you can complete the configuration by embedding the Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution to manage the banner visuals, the registering of consent and the preemptive blocking of script. Note The Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution…
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Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution – Magento Extension Installation Guide
This extension drastically reduces the need for direct interventions in the code of the site by integrating with our Privacy Controls and Cookie Solution. It provides a fully customizable cookie banner, dynamically generates a cookie policy to match the services in use on your site, store proofs of users’ preferences and, fully manages cookie-related consent –…
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How to Make Your Site Compliant (for Bloggers and Web Publishers)
As the owner of a blog or similarly simple website, you may be wondering if the same rules of commercial sites and apps apply to you. To answer that question, here are a couple of things you need to consider: If you answered yes to any of these, then many of the same privacy rules…
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Data Protection Impact Assessment (GDPR DPIA Template)
No GDPR overview is complete without the DPIA. However, when it comes to the data protection impact assessment, the good news is that it is not strictly required in most cases. This is what the English ICO has to say about it: “Although publishing a DPIA is not a requirement of GDPR, you should actively…
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What is meant by the identifying details of the Data Controller
The term ”data controller” has been defined in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR, at its most basic, specifies how personal data should be lawfully processed and sets a number of legal requirements that fall on data controllers. What is a data controller? The data controller means any person or legal entity involved in determining…
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Impressum: What is it and when do you need one (example)
We often get asked the question, ‘what is an Impressum?’, that’s why we’d like to answer the most common questions here: What is an Impressum / disambiguation to privacy policy Is it legally required The Privacy Policy and the Impressum What information should be included in Impressum Where it should be placed Impressum for Facebook Pages…
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Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality Obligation for Employees (GDPR Template)
Under GDPR, it is advisable to inform staff members about the duty of secrecy and to have them sign a binding obligation in order to meet the conditions set by some GDPR provisions. You can read more about the reasoning in our GDPR Offline Compliance Duties article. Since we want to help our users on…
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EU Representative Appointment (GDPR Template)
If you are a controller based outside of the EU, but you are offering goods or services (even for free) to EU-based users or you are monitoring their behavior as far as it’s taking place within the EU, you have to appoint an EU-representative established in one of the EU countries your Users are based…