Unlocking GDPR Secrets: What Every Author Must Know Now Before It’s Too Late
There are more things to do for GDPR-compliance if you have a more complicated website. But I think I’ve covered most of the basics that apply to most authors. So this may be my last blog post on GDPR—I’m still thinking about if there’s anything left to say.
One final note: I discussed Contact forms last week, but now I have an update. If you have a Contact form on a WordPress blog and you’re using Gravity Forms (a popular plugin to create Contact forms), you should be aware that everytime somebody sends you an e-mail from your site, a copy of their message is stored in your WordPress database. That copy will contain the sender’s name and e-mail address, which is personal information. You probably don’t need that in your database, as long as those e-mails are actually being delivered to you. If you decide you don’t want all that personal information in your WordPress database, it’s possible to delete it by going to the Entries page for Gravity Forms in WordPress and trashing all the entries. (This is a little tedious.)
