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Why is it important to use an EU-based cookie consent solution?
The European Union is the world leader in data privacy law, empowering over 447 million EU residents with strong protection of user data based on prior consent. The EU’s General Data Protection …
Selina Setari
What laws require websites to have a cookie consent banner?
You see it on almost every website – the cookie consent banner that asks you to agree to cookies being placed on your device. While some websites give you an actual choice …
Donata Stroink-Skillrud
Utah Consumer Privacy Act Compliance Guide
On March 25, 2022 Utah became the sixth state to enact a comprehensive privacy law, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act. This law provides new consumer privacy rights to residents of Utah and …
Donata Stroink-Skillrud
Usage of Google Fonts violates GDPR
A court in Munich, Germany has recently found that websites that have embedded Google Fonts violate the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Since over 50 million websites use Google Fonts, this decision …
Donata Stroink-Skillrud
Austrian DPA rules that Google Analytics is not GDPR compliant
A recent decision made by the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DPA) ruled that websites that use Google Analytics are not compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This seminal decision impacts …
Donata Stroink-Skillrud
Privacy rights request email
Termageddon customers, Update on December 23, 2021: The email noted above seems to have come from the Princeton-Radbound Study on Privacy Law Implementation. The Principal Investigator of the study admitted to sending …
Donata Stroink-Skillrud
Quebec passes a new privacy law – Quebec Law 25
After much debate regarding whether Canada’s federal privacy bill, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), offers sufficient privacy protections for consumers, Quebec passed a new privacy law, Quebec Law …
Donata Stroink-Skillrud
Is the Shopify Privacy Policy generator any good?
If you have a website built on Shopify, you may have seen its Privacy Policy generator and asked yourself – is Shopify’s Privacy Policy generator any good? The generator itself is free …
Donata Stroink-Skillrud
What you need to know about the California Association of Realtors’ CCPA Advisory Form
Note: Since the writing of this blog, the CCPA has been replaced by the CPRA. If you are a realtor in California and have received or provided your clients with the California …
Donata Stroink-Skillrud
Terms of Service for an eCommerce website
A Terms of Service (also referred to as a Terms and Conditions, Terms of Use, TOS or T&C) is a statement that details the rules of using your website. Virtually any website …
Donata Stroink-Skillrud
How to handle Privacy Policy updates
Unfortunately, the days of putting a Privacy Policy on your website and never looking at it again are long gone. The truth is that Privacy Policies are changing at an increasingly fast …
Donata Stroink-Skillrud
Where should a Privacy Policy be on a website?
If your website collects Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as names, emails, phone numbers or IP addresses through features such as contact forms, email newsletter sign up forms or analytics, you may …
Donata Stroink-Skillrud