GDPR
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Hello,
As you already know, GDPR is coming. I would like to know if I can use the plugin in line with the new regulation. I need to add extra checkboxes in order to obtain user consent for having their email-address and names. Please let me know if you have any information.
Thanks
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Frankly, I do not have any plans to modify the plugin as my understanding is it isn’t needed.
The action of consent is given by the action of entering the name and e-mail address into a form specifically for the purpose of a mailing list. Any required text can already be added in the widget text. A checkbox to say “yes, I’m giving you my e-mail address and name” when all the form is doing is asking for your e-mail address and name for a subscription isn’t in line with my understanding of the GDPR.
A checkbox opt-in is required on, say, an account registration form or some other time you’re collecting personal information where it isn’t clear that you’re going to that information for the purpose of e-mail marketing.
If your compliance office would like to have a checkbox, you can add within the “Hidden Fields” box a
<input type="checkbox" id="subscribecheckbox" name="subscribe" value="newsletter" required="required"><label for="subscribecheckbox">Subscribe to newsletter?</label>
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