General Data Protection Regulations have far fetching impact for the website owners who ask for the data of individuals based in Europe. It starts very early on, from the time when a person comes to our website looking for information about a particular term on your website. You have to make sure that your website is compliant—taking care of simple things like cookies, or the small files placed on the computer from the browser session. In certain countries, we have to seek permission to put those files . Also if we are using any analytics, like Google Analytics, we have to make the individual aware that we are doing so, and allow the to not accept it.
We have to have a privacy notice which declares what we are doing with the personal data, which includes who is responsible for processing it—how long that data is retained, to whom it may be passed on, which countries are involved and how to make a complaint.
The rights of the individual are also outlined. Individuals may demand the data from the website owners and if the data is not protected they can complain. There are more than 59000 complaints registered in the first year of GDPR application. It is necessary that website owners take the highest standard as our base line. Currently that standard is GDPR.
As the website owner you need to keep yourself updated with the requirements of GDPR in the software. Everytime it may not be possible for the website owners to cope up with the pace of changes demanded by GDPR provisions. Hence the content management systems like wordpress have embeded GDPR provisions in the new set of plugins, if you are using the wordpress content management system you should make sure that you are using the GDPR plugins of wordpress.
