This morning I’ve spent over two hours (that I would have preferred to spend writing) making sure that Diary of a Word Nerd is compliant with GDPR requirements. I’ve added a privacy policy and updated some features so that you know that this site uses cookies and you give permission for this site to use and store your personal information. Since I’m not selling anything (yet! Hopefully books someday), the only thing I keep is your name and email, and I use those to contact you about new posts if you subscribe. I may also use your email to respond to a comment you leave. That’s it!
If you have a blog or website too and are curious about GDPR requirements, I highly recommend two things:
- Do your research. I found the following articles very helpful. And yes, even if you don’t sell anything, if you collect emails or use cookies to save information to make commenting easier, you collect personal information and you need to take GDPR seriously.
- Look around on your blog settings and tools Since GDPR was enacted, the platform I use, Word Press, and the theme I use, Graphy, have added several features to make it easier to comply with GDPR, including a comment privacy checkbox and a widget with a cookie notification. I spent a lot of time looking at plug ins before I realized some features were already built into my blog and I just needed to activate them! Do yourself a favor and poke around.
Also, I did some general housekeeping, deleted bag plug ins, etc, on the blog, and as a result, you may have lost your subscription. Please use the subscription box in the right sidebar to make sure you will always be notified when I post something new.
If you have other suggestions for updating blogs and websites to be GDPR compliant, please share them below! I am not a coder or a software developer, so plain English is appreciated.
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