Unlocking GDPR Secrets: What Every Author Must Know Before It’s Too Late
But the problem was that spammers could send out bots looking at Contact pages to read those mailto links. Then the spammers had the email address of the website owner, and they sent him tons of spam.
That’s why most websites these days have a Contact form instead of a bare mailto link. It’s protection for website owners from the spammers.
But here’s the problem for GDPR compliance: A Contact form usually puts the website visitor’s name and email address into the website database. There are good, sensible reasons for this. But now the website is storing personal information of any site visitor who uses the Contact form. And GDPR is all about letting website visitors control their personal data.
