After Facebook’s data breach made worldwide headlines, it’s no surprise that sweeping policy changes coming. They require website owners to disclose privacy and security guidelines to visitors. By May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) required new standards for data collection and sharing across the EU. Many content creators took steps to alert subscribers by sending out a data collection guideline message via email. But new visitors also need to be aware of how their information is shared or stored after they visit your site. They can opt-out of sharing their information or opt-in to stay on your site. We found three privacy policy plugins to help make your blog GDPR compliant. None of these plugins promise to handle the required tasks 100%, but they walk you through many of the requirements.
Need a Blog Privacy Policy?
First, consider the privacy policy rules from your preferred ad network. Even Google Adsense requires a privacy policy to participate. Many ad networks alerted content creators about the new guidelines. Contact them to follow-up and gain clarity.
Second, write a policy that matches your beliefs and follow through. If you need additional guidance, two websites can help you generate the wording for a privacy policy: FreePrivacyPolicy.com and TrustGuard.com.
Finally, let visitors and subscribers know of the new policies on your blog. Newsletter services, like Mailchimp, will walk you through alerting subscribers that you may use their information for marketing etc. For new visitors, these privacy policy plugins can help.
3 Privacy Policy Plugins to
Help Make Your Blog GDPR Compliant
1. GDPR Cookie Consent
Our plugin will help you to become GDPR compliant with following features.
- Plugin will show a notice with Accept and Reject options. By default the cookie value will be set to ‘null’. If the user clicks ‘Accept’ button the value with be changed to ‘yes’. IF the user clicks on ‘Reject’ the value will be set to ‘no’. Your developer can check this value to set a cookie
- Admin can add cookie details from the backend. The list of cookies can be displayed in your cookie policy page by using a short code.
You can customize fonts and colors on the footer or the header to alert visitors of the new policies.
2. GDPR Framework
This privacy plugin puts more control in the hands of your website visitors.
Allow both users and visitors without an account to automatically view, export and delete their personal data;
☑ Configure the plugin to delete or anonymize personal data automatically or send a notification and allow admins to do it manually;
☑ Track, manage and withdraw consent;
☑ Generate a GDPR-compatible Privacy Policy template for your site;
☑ Comes with a helpful installation wizard to get you started quickly;
☑ Fully documented;
☑ Developer-friendly. Everything can be extended, every feature and template can be overridden
3. GDPR Cookie Compliance
- Once installed, the plugin gives you a template that you can customize; you can modify all text and colors to suit your needs.
- You can also allow users to enable and disable cookies on your site, however, this will require bespoke development work as every site is unique and uses different cookies.
Comment below: Which of these privacy policy plugins are you considering? Did you find the new privacy policy rules confusing?
If the thought of handling the privacy policy tasks yourself makes you cringe, consider hiring a virtual assistant to do them for you.
