GDPR applies to all businesses, large and small, all over the world. If your site has visitors from European Union countries, this law applies to you. Although GDPR has the potential to escalate to the high level of fines, it will begin with a warning, a rebuke, a suspension of data processing, and if you continue to violate the law, high fines will be incurred.

The goal of GDPR is to protect the user’s personally identifiable information (PII) and keep businesses at a higher standard when it comes to how to collect, store and use such data.

Personal data includes name, e-mail, physical address, IP address, health information, income, etc. Now you’re probably wondering what you need to do to make sure your WordPress site is GDPR compliant. Well, by default, WordPress 4.9.6 now comes with the following GDPR enhancement tools …

Privacy policy generator

WordPress now comes with a built-in privacy policy generator. It offers a prefabricated privacy policy template and offers guidance on what to add, so you can be more transparent with users in terms of what data you store and how you manage your data.

Export data and delete resource

WordPress gives site owners the ability to meet GDPR’s data processing requirements and honor the user’s request to export personal data as well as the removal of personal data from the user.

GDPR compliant plugins

As a site owner, you may be using various WordPress plug-ins that store or process data such as contact forms, reviews, email marketing, online store, membership sites, etc. Depending on which WordPress plugins you are using on your site, you will need to take action to ensure that your site is GDPR compliant. In addition, plugins developers are creating GDPR plugin for WordPress.

Google analytics

Like most website owners, you’re probably using Google Analytics to get website statistics. This means that you may be collecting or tracking personal data such as IP addresses, user IDs, cookies, and other data for the behavior profile.

Contact form

If you are using a contact form in WordPress, you may need to add extra transparency measures, especially if you are storing the form entries or using the data for marketing purposes.

Email marketing opt-in forms

Similar to contact forms, if you have email marketing application forms such as pop-ups, floating bars, in-line forms, and others, be sure to collect the explicit consent of users before adding them to the your list.

Comments consent

By default, WordPress used to store the commenters’ name, email, and website as a cookie on the user’s browser. This made it easy for users to leave comments on their favorite blogs because those fields were pre-filled. Due to the GDPR consent requirement, WordPress has added the comment consent checkbox. The user can leave a comment without checking this box. All this would mean that they would have to manually enter their name, email and website every time they left a comment.

WooCommerce / eCommerce

If you are using WooCommerce, the   most popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress, then you need to make sure that your site complies with GDPR. The WooCommerce team has prepared a comprehensive guide for store owners to help them be compatible with GDPR.

Retargeting ads

If your website is running redirect pixels or retargeting ads, you’ll need to get the user’s consent. You can do this by using a plug-in such as Cookie Warning.

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VoIP is the telephony of the future; in fact, many companies, big and small, have already switched. Its virtues include cheaper long-distance calls, integration with CRM and voice recognition software, out-of-the-box call filtering and routing, and greater mobility – you can move your phones to a different country and still plug and go.

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For large companies, wholesale VoIP termination rates provide substantial savings over separate lines and internal exchanges.

Key weakness

VoIP has one major weakness compared with traditional telephone lines: it is completely dependent on your internet connection, and therefore your electricity supply. If either goes down for any reason – HGVs reversing into junction boxes, diggers hitting cables, heavy storms, bill disputes, hackers, router problems etc – you could lose all contact with your engineers, your customers, and with the help centres of your service provider!

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Analogue and ISDN phone lines have always been remarkably reliable. When occasionally a repair is necessary, your one-stop telephony company responds swiftly and fault tracking is usually straightforward. As your phones are separate to your internet, you can fall back on email if you lose the phone; if you lose your network, you can fall back on the phone.

It is similar with electricity supplies: telephones are powered independently, so are rarely taken out when a storm, accident or power cut causes a blackout. In emergency situations, people have even been known to power a light or radio from their telephone socket.

Survivability

Companies need an emergency plan for these exigencies. Mobile phones are an obvious fall-back solution, but only if vital numbers and account details are accessible offline to all who need them! Remember that storing this information must abide by modern privacy regulations; however, provided at least one designated person has access to emergency numbers, you can call your provider for help.

Some VoIP companies offer line monitoring guarantees. If you lose your connections, their system alerts them to respond without waiting for your call. Ask a specialist such as https://www.idtexpress.com/ for details of these services.

Fortunately, one of the most useful guarantees is already built into your VoIP: it is simple to set up diverts so that calls not being answered in one office are automatically re-routed to another, or at least to a messaging service. Just remember to set these up before you need them!