The GDPR is a complex piece of legislation that requires those doing business in the European Union to abide be a standardized set of online privacy practices.
If you’re subject to GDPR and use Cognito Forms to collect data, you’ll want to:
- Obtain explicit consent before collecting personal or sensitive data.
- Enable data encryption to encrypt all personal or sensitive data when viewing entries, which. could cause data to be stored in a local database within your browser. (All data is encrypted when at rest.)
- Link your privacy policy to ours.
- Collect a minimal amount of data and delete when it is no longer required.
- Allow data subjects to have their information erased or corrected.
To learn more, read 5 Guidelines for Creating GDPR Forms.