Understand and make your website compliant simply
Today, almost every website collects personal data: name, email address, IP address, cookies, browsing history, orders or contact requests. GDPR sets rules to protect users and make organizations responsible for how they handle this information.
1. What is GDPR?
GDPR is a European regulation that has applied since 25 May 2018. It aims to protect personal data, ensure transparency, give users control and make companies accountable.
Personal data means any information that can identify a person directly or indirectly: name, email, phone number, IP address, customer ID, cookie or location data.
2. Who is concerned?
GDPR is not only for large companies. Showcase websites, blogs, ecommerce stores, freelancers, associations and any structure using forms, newsletters, analytics or customer areas may be concerned.
3. The main GDPR principles
- Purpose: data must be collected for a clear and legitimate reason.
- Minimization: collect only what is truly necessary.
- Transparency: users must know what is collected and why.
- Consent: when required, it must be free, informed and explicit.
- Security: data must be protected from unauthorized access, loss or theft.
4. What obligations for a website?
A compliant website should provide legal notice, a clear privacy policy, cookie information, contact details for the data controller and, when necessary, a proper consent management system.
Forms must be secure, their purpose must be clear, and consent boxes should be used when required. Analytics and marketing cookies should not be loaded before consent if consent is legally required.
5. How to move forward
Start by listing the data collected by your website, checking forms and cookies, updating legal pages and securing the site technically. GDPR compliance is not only legal text: it is also a practical way to build trust.
Proxy Web Service can help you audit your website, update the required pages and implement a clearer compliance workflow.