Author Topic: The Privacy Policy change all sites are doing  (Read 21483 times)

Offline Chris Bergin

Obviously nothing is held here at NSF HQ, like e-mail addresses used to sign up to the forum, etc. Our web stuff is a mix of Wordpress, SMF...and Paypal for subscriptions for example.

Noticed SMF (for the forum) thankfully didn't take the route most sites have been taking with that annoying "policy" e-mail and instead it simply flashes up with a "agree, don't agree" page, a bit like the one when you first signed up to the forum. Happened for me when I was going between threads, so it looks automatic.

-- Edit. That was thanks to Mark, I've just noticed :)

Looks very simple, but covers the bases. For example, I'm pretty sure the "DOB" is because some SMF forums require that. We don't. So yeah, I think you'll all see that today. Can't remember if it's worldwide or just European. If the latter it might just happen for people on European IPs.
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Re: The Privacy Policy change all sites are doing
« Reply #1 on: 05/26/2018 01:12 pm »
Heh, some sites have been snoozing over this!

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Re: The Privacy Policy change all sites are doing
« Reply #2 on: 05/26/2018 01:59 pm »
Heh, some sites have been snoozing over this!
Newspaper sites that are blocking access to readers in the EU include: The Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune.  There are several others doing the same.

This may get messy very quickly:

https://www.fastcompany.com/40577794/google-and-facebook-are-already-accused-of-breaking-gdpr-laws
« Last Edit: 05/26/2018 02:05 pm by Eric Hedman »

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Re: The Privacy Policy change all sites are doing
« Reply #3 on: 08/09/2024 03:05 pm »
I have a complaint regarding the forum's privacy notice popup.  It is one of the more annoying features of the website, because it appears to require reaffirmation once a week.  I don't know of any other sites that pester you that frequently. Is that one-week expiration written into the GDPR laws or could that possibly be relaxed?  I'd have thought you could save this flag somewhere in the user account settings, but even just once a month would be less annoying.
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Offline Chris Bergin

Re: The Privacy Policy change all sites are doing
« Reply #4 on: 08/09/2024 10:25 pm »
I have a complaint regarding the forum's privacy notice popup.  It is one of the more annoying features of the website, because it appears to require reaffirmation once a week.  I don't know of any other sites that pester you that frequently. Is that one-week expiration written into the GDPR laws or could that possibly be relaxed?  I'd have thought you could save this flag somewhere in the user account settings, but even just once a month would be less annoying.

Yeah, I get that too. Weird. I bet it's some wacky software issue where it forgets people, or an IP change. Should be on a cookie. I'll ask.
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Re: The Privacy Policy change all sites are doing
« Reply #5 on: 10/31/2024 05:13 am »
I have a complaint regarding the forum's privacy notice popup.  It is one of the more annoying features of the website, because it appears to require reaffirmation once a week.

The privacy notice hasn't appeared weekly for me (or any frequency high enough for me to remember).

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