Website Owners Can Be Sued For Millions

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - May 19, 2018 - PRLog -- With the deadline of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
upon us. Businesses are scrambling to get their websites compliant. The GDPR is a regulation in the European Union (EU) law on data protection and privacy of individuals. This law becomes enforceable May 25, 2018.

If you are a business owner with a website and you are not GDPR compliant by the deadline. You may be faced with a hefty fine that could be in the millions of dollars. What can businesses do to get their website compliant? Here are a few things you can do. First make sure your "Privacy Notice" and "Terms and Conditions" reference GDPR terminology. This simply means what you will do with information from individuals once you receive it and how long you will retain this information. Second, concerning online payments you will need to modify web processes to remove any personal information after a reasonable period. Thirdly, check you opt-in forms to make sure they default to "no" or be blank.

The above are a few things you can do to make your website compliant. There are many more things your business must do. Eric Patton owner of ericthedreammaker website has a video that goes over what is really needed to get your website compliant by the deadline of May 25, 2018. He says that businesses should not have to scramble to get compliant when it can be done in a matter of 5 to 10 minutes.

If you'd like more information, go to this website: http://ericthedreammaker.com/gdpr-compliance/