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| GDPR: more protection for your personal data |
As you may know, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will enter into force tomorrow, 25 May 2018. This is a European Union regulation which will constitute the reference text for the protection of your personal data. As Forumotion is a worldwide service, the protections offered to our European users will also apply to all other users. Our privacy policy has been updated in accordance with this new regulation, and various measures come with it on your forums.  Privacy policyForumotion makes it a point of honour to respect its users privacy, that is why we only collect the data which are necessary for the services proper functioning. This privacy policy explains the purposes of the processing and how to exercise your rights. Please note that the Terms of Use have also been rewritten, so you should reread them.Situation of new usersThis privacy policy, as the Terms of Use will have to be read and accepted by all users who create or register on a forum.
Situation of old usersUsers who created or registered in a Forumotion forum before the arrival of this new regulation of course will have the same protection. For this reason, any user logging into a forum will have to read and accept the privacy policy, and the Terms of Use he can proceed.
This window will also prompt the user to confirm his choices about newsletters (see next point). This window will appear only once (if the acceptance is given), but on each forum where you have an user account. Exclusive user choicesThe main objective of this new regulation is to put the user back at the heart of his personal data processing, by giving him the choice. For this reason, we want to be sure that all users of Forumotion forums have made their choices: what emails will they receive? from whom? what data is used? how? All these questions are answered in the privacy policy, and take different forms in the administration panel:Receiving forum newslettersFor all new users, receiving the newsletters will need the acceptance of these emails by the user, upon registration. Only the users having deliberately chosen to receive the newsletters of the forum will receive these (this choice concerns indifferently the newsletter sent by the administrator of the forum and the "popular contents" newsletter).
More specifically regarding "popular content" newsletters, any user already has the choice, in his profile preferences, to receive or not the "popular content" newsletters:  To be sure, in the future, to send these mails only to users who so wish, the next "popular content" newsletters sent will contain, at the top of the mail, a request for confirmation of this choice.
Impossibility for the administrator to modify these choicesSince the options for receiving mail are closely related to the users' choices, the administrators of a forum can no longer modify these choices in the users' profile. These are no longer editable: We thank you for your trust and loyalty. Forumotion team  |
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Last edited by Shadow on May 28th 2018, 11:45 am; edited 2 times in total
when a solution is found.
I didn't read that you're from Estonia.
