Unlocking GDPR Secrets: What Every Author Must Know Before It’s Too Late
While this might seem pretty innocuous, it is personal data. And therefore GDPR covers it. GDPR says that this personal data can’t be collected without consent.
So our next step is to get the website visitor to give consent before the Contact form collects that personal data.
As I understand it, the website visitor must voluntarily give informed consent. That means you need to tell them what you’re doing, and then they need to freely take some positive action to consent to it, and then you need to keep evidence that they gave consent. And they must have the option later on to revoke consent.
