GDPR Roundup — Getting Your WiFi In Shape
You know the score, GDPR’s happening this week. We’re also sick of the emails! Here’s a summary of things you need to read:
- Common questions we’ve been asked — blog > here.
- The six things you must do — another blog > here.
- Ensure you’ve enabled the consent form on your splash pages — doc here.
- Read about the new GDPR tools we’ve implemented — blog here.
- Read our terms — they’re actually quite interesting — here.
We’d also recommend reading through the recent CT blogs, in particular this one. There’s been a load of updates recently.
If you’re using our splash pages and don’t use any white-label features, you’re all set.
If you’re using our splash pages and are on the reseller plan or have white-labeled the service, you must ensure your terms are up to date.
Other Things To Do
Non WiFi related, we recommend you do the following (and more)!
Reconfirm Consent
If you send marketing emails, you probably have a list of emails. You’re going to need to email everyone and ask them whether they want to receive your messages moving forwards.
- MailChimp have instructions on how to do this here.
- Campaign Monitor explain how to do this here.
- SendGrid cannot do this so we built a tool and open-sourced it here.
Enable HTTPS On Your Site
If you have a form or capture customer data on your site, you need to enable HTTPS. There’s a gazillion ways to do this — if in doubt, contact your IT person.
Update Your Newsletter Sign-Up Form
If you’re capturing emails — you need to ensure you’ve asked for the user’s consent correctly. MailChimp provide some decent tools for this.
If in doubt, the best things to do are:
- Make sure there’s an opt-in checkbox that lets them choose to sign-up
- Enable double-opt-in — this way they get a confirmation email from you before you go about sending them spam
Clarifications
Marketing emails do not equal transactional emails. This means companies cannot send you marketing messages without your confirmation. However, they can send you transactional messages. A transactional message might be a password reset or update about your service’s security settings.
