Does your business continuous traffic from European countries? If your answer is yes then you should be fully aware of Europe’s new data privacy law – GDPR. It will definitely affect you if you don’t know it.
In this article, we are going to discuss everything about what GDPR is, how it is going to affect your approaches of data collection and how to make your site GDPR compliant.
What Is GDPR?
GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. It’s basically a data privacy and protection regulation which started rolling out from May 25, 2018.
GDPR is specifically designed with the sole objective of providing better protection of personal data or Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to the people living in European countries. In order to implement the regulation in a perfect manner, specific obligations on personal data enforcing major files if businesses fail to comply it.
When the data privacy is concerned, GDPR is a massive step towards the elimination of personal data breaches and establishing the need to have consent from a user before collecting and using the data.
The Major Effects Of GDPR
More Rights Are Given To The European Individuals:
The EU residents have the right to ask for a copy of their stored personal data. They can also make a request to businesses to delete their personal data.
Compliance Obligations and Increased Enforcement:
Any organization that collects personal data to implement required policies or security protocols, need to take consent of the users in every scenario where the personal data collection is required. This regulations stated by GDPR are being strictly enforced. If a company fails to comply with these regulations, it may end up paying a fine of up to 20 million pounds €20 million or 4% of the yearly revenue.
Notifications For Data Breaches:
If an organization experiences any kind of data breaches, they must report it to the data protection authority.
Well, it’s time to know about the changes that you will need to implement in order to make your website GDPR friendly –
- Form: Active Opt-Ins
Forms that invite users to subscribe for getting newsletters or asking for the contact information must have the default No setting or should be kept blank. It allows users to opt-out without facing any sort of difficulties.
The Readers Digest has adopted this approach as an inevitable part of their checkout process. The popup comes with a Yes/No options for the readers so that it can provide the evidence of validating this GDPR rule.
- Analyze Your Organization’s Current Use Of Data:
Ask some vital questions to yourself because the answers will help you determine whether you will have to or not have to worry about GDPR implementations-
- Do you collect the data of the users?
- What’s your reason behind collection data?
- How do you use the data?
- Are you following a secured data collection approach?
- Do you share your user’s data with anyone?
- Request Consent From Your Users:
You need to make it sure that whenever your website is asking for the personal data from the users, it should clearly ask for the consents from the users.
If you are collecting the users’ data without having any idea of how the data will be used, it’s high time you need to rectify the situation. You should allow your users to opt-in and select how the data will be used.
If you are using an opt-in form to collect the data of the users, you should let your users know how the data will be used. Furthermore, you should allow people with the options to unsubscribe.
- Give Rights To The People Whose Data You Are Collecting:
Based on GDPR’s regulations, you are supposed to give full right to the people whose data you are using. Your users have the full right to ask you for their data elimination or they can ask you for the copy of their personal data.
- Have A Nice Plan Ready Ahead Of The Data Breaches:
GDPR gives organizations 72 hours of time to report the incident of data breaches. Make you sure you have a nice plan for doing this in the unwanted case of the data breach.
- Determine If You Are A Data Controller Or Data Processor:
GDPR comes with different regulations depending on whether an entity can be defined as a data controller or data processor. Now, you might be wondering to know what a data controller and data processor are. Well, a data controller is an entity that determines what type of information is collected and how it will be used. The job of a data processor is to process the data given by the data controller.
If you are planning to start with web development services or app development services for your business, you need to make sure that your website or App is fully GDPR compliant. Just follow these regulations mentioned above and have a smooth business operation going on with the users from EU territory.
Author: Anoop Nain is a Content Consultant at Enuke Software, a pioneering Blockchain and iPhone App Development Company in the USA.
Anoop Nain is a guest blogger, all opinions are their own.
