GDPR Compliance Guide

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the EU's landmark privacy regulation. If your website has visitors from the EU/EEA, GDPR applies to you regardless of where your business is located.

GDPR Principles

• Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency
• Purpose limitation — collect data only for specified purposes
• Data minimization — collect only what's necessary
• Accuracy — keep data accurate and up to date
• Storage limitation — don't keep data longer than needed
• Integrity and confidentiality — ensure security
• Accountability — demonstrate compliance

Consent Requirements

GDPR requires freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous consent. This means: no pre-checked boxes, clear and plain language, separate consent for different purposes, easy withdrawal at any time, and no consent bundling with terms of service.

Data Subject Rights

• Right of access (Article 15)
• Right to rectification (Article 16)
• Right to erasure / right to be forgotten (Article 17)
• Right to restriction of processing (Article 18)
• Right to data portability (Article 20)
• Right to object (Article 21)
• Right not to be subject to automated decision-making (Article 22)

Compliance Checklist