Your web site’s privacy policy – you know, the link in the footer full of legal gobbledygook that you copied off someone else – is about to become one of the most important pages on your site. Under the upcoming EU-wide data protection overhaul, your privacy notice must become an open and accountable dialogue with your users about what data you collect, why you collect it, and what rights they have over it.
I will walk you through the steps you will need to take to bring your privacy notices kicking and screaming into the 21st century in time for May’s enforcement deadline. We’ll cover what the regulation requires, how your notices should be formatted, and how WordPress can pose some interesting challenges for the process.
And far from being a boring legal compliance exercise, I’ll show you why the process of drafting your privacy notices might just be the healthiest thing you can do for your business this year.