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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new legal framework in the EU. It was enacted by the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission, with the intention to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). It will apply starting on May 25, 2018.

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How do I resolve the "IAB TC string" warning in AdSense for EU users?

I recently saw a warning in my Adsense dashboard: We've detected an issue on your IAB TC string on one or more of your sites or apps. These errors may affect your ability to serve ads to European ...
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How does the GDPR apply to processing event bookings?

I am trying to work out if it our business is considered contractual, legitimate interest, or consent under the GDPR. We are processing event bookings. The information being collected and processed ...
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Google Analytics Opt-out option for users to be GDPR compliance

We have GA installed on almost every website and with GDPR implementation we have to give user option to Opt-Out from google analytics. I didnt fine any such option in GA which we can use rather ...
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Does AdSense out-of-the-box GDPR message work with GA4?

AdSense offers a simple solution for GDPR-compliant messages for personalized ads (https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/10961068). If I enable this popup, do I need an additional popup ...
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Ads receiving clicks, but not actual traffic (phantom clicks from multiple ad platforms)

I am not receiving ad traffic from Facebook ads, Google Search ads, or Reddit ads to my website any more, despite receiving clicks on my ads across all these platforms. This is according to multiple ...
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Was youtube-nocookie.com always serving cookies or did it start recently? Is it a scam?

I've been using Youtube embeds in enhanced privacy mode by chang[ing] the domain for the embed URL in your HTML from https://www.youtube.com to https://www.youtube-nocookie.com I remember checking ...
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How long can anonymised log files be stored in the EU?

It seems to be standard industry practice to anonymise IP addresses etc. in web server log files after seven days. If this has happened, how long am I allowed to keep the log files? My reason for ...
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Do I need a cookies notice?

I've read that if you are storing identifying information like the user's name or email address in cookies then you have to ask for consent. I just want to store the user's country code, like US, CA, ...
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Small web service, gdpr, privacy policy etc

I have created a simple API based service for developers. And I am stacked for a few days with gdpr and legal stuff. I am using firebase auth, to track users and API usage. I want to show an ads from ...
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For GDPR consent, should resellers/intermediaries be included in verdorlist.json?

When EU users enter a GDPR supported website, such users get presented with a "are you sure we can follow you?" question. If those users click "yes" than it stores a cookie with a Base64 consent ...
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Possible to legally display ads without consent from EU users?

The EU cookie law, I believe, requires the consent of EU user to place cookies. The ads that I know of on the website uses cookies. Is possible to legally display ads on website without consent from ...
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GDPR compliance for B2B Scenario

We are working on a website that will be an authentication only site, i.e. only users who are invited and accept the invitation by logging into our site will have access to it. We will also have a few ...
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Delete Google Analytics cookie in AMP version

I'm developing a new AMP site. It's very simple and I just want to know visits/pageviews in Google Analytics. Because of the European GDPR law, instead of notifying the users about the cookie, I ...
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Show personalized ads outside Europe and non-personalized ads in Europe using Google Adsense?

Since my website has only a cookie acceptance message, I can not show personalized ads in the European Economic Area (EEA). Is it possible to show non-personalized Ads only in EEA?
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Google Analytics cookies _ga and _gid still appearing in Chrome after installing a GDPR consent plugin in WordPress

Trying to get my Wordpress blog into GDPR compliance. I've got most of my cookies under control with a consent plugin (Cookie Notice) but I'm concerned about Google Analytics cookies _ga and _gid, ...
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Can I let customers send invite emails under GDPR?

I have a system in which organizations are usually the main account holders. Usually they will add sub accounts for employees or other people who need to use the system by entering their email address,...
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Would a "this site uses cookies" notice be sufficient under the GDPR for cookies from other domains

I'm using a third-party analytics tool that sets a cookie to track the user for analytics purposes (for tracking conversions) as soon as the user hits the page. The analytics service does not store ...
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How do I set up my GDPR if I have more than one advertiser platform on a single domain?

I work with ezoic ads and Google Adsense, so what should I do to set up my GDPR consent? Should I ask both platforms to disable the consent and hire an authorized vendor to take care of the consent ...
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