Unlocking GDPR Secrets Every Author Must Know Before Publishing
But don’t be so sure you’re not collecting any private data at all. Websites are complicated beasts with a lot of moving parts under the hood. Here are some ways you may be collecting private data on your website or blog that you may not have thought of:
- Do you have a contact form that lets people email you?
- Do you have an email newsletter list?
- Do you allow people to post comments on your blog or your website?
- Are you an affiliate of Amazon or Apple iBooks or any other online store?
- Do you have Facebook Like buttons? Or Twitter Tweet buttons? Or any other social media buttons?
- Do you track visitors to your site with Google Analytics or some other tracking tool?
- Do you have any sort of cookies on your site?
- Do you have a Facebook “pixel” on your site?
- Do you use Feedburner for your blog?
- Do you use a spam protection service, such as Akismet?
And there are hundreds of other ways your blog or website might conceivably be collecting personal information.
