Watch How GDPR Bot Works
GDPR simply means General Data Protection Regulation, which is the latest regulation in the European Union. The aim of this regulation is to unify data protection of EU users across the world. The regulation came into effect on May 25th, 2018 and has a series of steps that all websites need to adhere to.
The GDPR regulation is applicable to all businesses websites that cater to European citizens across the world. Regardless of the geographical location of the individual browsing a website, it is imperative for websites to comply with the GDPR rules.
No, GDPR regulation is not just limited to EU-based companies. It is also applicable to any and every business that process personal data of EU users. Which means it applies to organizations that may be based outside the EU, but provide goods and services to EU citizens all around the world.
Defaulters of GDPR Regulations would be imposed heavy penalties of up to €20 million or 2% to 4% of annual turnover of the organization, whatever is more. Multiple breaches could even lead to a whopping €40 million in penalties on the organization in question.
The GDPR Bot works by simply copy/past a JavaScript code snippet into your website footer.
Complying with the new GDPR law starts with a proper cookie audit and ongoing monitoring.
Identifying every single cookie used by your website may sound cumbersome, because it is. But that’s exactly what you need to do to conduct a successful cookie audit.
You have to go through all the pages on your site one by one.
Why? Because different pages on your site may have different plugins, widgets and third party code that uses its own cookies.
You can pull the cookie information directly from the browser or us a real Cookie Audit Tool. That’s how you get a list of cookies (from different domains) currently being used on your site.
Want to automate the whole ‘cookie audit’ process?
Enter: GDPR Bot.
Have your website automatically crawled, with each page being individually scanned for cookies. The GDPR Bot will identify cookies set by your own domain AND by any third party websites.
We also send you a monthly cookie audit report via email. Which becomes available for review on the cookie policy page of your website and in the privacy preference popup.
What sets the GDPR Bot apart is that it intelligently...
1.Identifies similar pages on your website
2.Groups them together
3.And scans a few random samples
This prevents the crawler from overloading your website during scan. Yes, the GDPR Bot not only saves you time, but also does a more efficient job.
Setting up a cookie consent box / popup on your website is a crucial step. It helps you acquire user consent on the use of cookies on a website. Also, it’s the first thing your first time visitors see when visiting your site.
GDPR Bot provides a customizable GDPR consent popup for your website. You are free to choose from four different styles and match the popup to your brand’s theme color.
All it takes is a few clicks to add a consent box to your website. Not only that, the popup also lets the user choose their privacy preferences, and be aware about the cookies being used by the website.
Roll up your sleeves and design the consent box yourself if you know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. Or if you have the budget, hire a freelancer to take care of it.
The law requires you to have a Privacy Policy that ensures your collection and use of data is transparent. This includes detailing your data collection practices, cookie usage, and data privacy rules regarding if and when user data may be shared. Make sure it includes information about data that is collected by any plugins.
You will have to deal with a ton of legal jargon to create your own Privacy Policy. Or pay a hefty fee to hire a lawyer to write your policy document.
The GDPR Bot incorporates a simple Privacy Policy wizard that helps you create your privacy policy in no time. Minus the legal jargon, it allows you to easily choose the right options for your privacy policy.
Fork from LegalMatic
The GDPR Bot uses a fork of the Legalmattic Open Source Privacy Policy & Cookie Policy document as a template. The Legalmattic Privacy policy is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike International license. The folks at Automattic (The company behind WordPress) has done a solid job at building rock solid and transparent legal documents. The best part? They have made it open for everyone to use.
GDPR also requires you to have a Cookie Policy in place. The cookie policy needs to clearly state the different cookies used on your website form, your own domain and all the third party domains (with their age & purpose).
You always need to update the cookie policy page every single time you install a new plugin or third-party code that adds its own cookies to your site.
Each time your website gets updated with a new plugin or an integration which starts using cookies, The GDPR Bot automatically detects it in the next monthly scan. After which it updates your cookie policy with the latest cookie report.
If you want to comply with the ePPR regulation, you need to block all cookies on your website until the user chooses his privacy preferences. And only allow those cookies to be downloaded which the user has accepted.
You can do this yourself with the help of a Cookie Consent Plugin, Google Tag Manager along with some custom coding in JavaScript.
Using our GDPR Bot, you can let your visitors take complete control over cookie usage on your website. This is made possible due to our powerful Cookie Control API.
The API provides an easy to use interface with Google Tag Manager to help you manage your cookies with a few easy clicks. Not only that, we also offer a one-time installation service to setup preemptive cookie blocking on your website using GDPR Bot and GTM.
The law empowers the user with rights to his/her own data. The rights include: The right to access their data, The right to be forgotten, The right to data portability.
The GDPR Bot includes the User Rights Forms, which come as a part of the plugin. This allows the user to access the form right from the privacy preference popup before raising a request. It saves time and gets better results.
In order to allow the user to exercise his rights, you need to create a separate GDPR user rights form on your website. Which will help the user in making a request.
The GDPR Bot supports 100+ languages with pre-defined language text. And it also offers an intuitive editor to customize the language text.
The GDPR Bot automatically detect the language used by your site visitor and change the cookie consent popup language.
In today’s times remaining perfectly compliant to the GDPR laws is a necessity. Which means you’ll have to manually update your website whenever you make any changes to it. Even adding another third party widget or a simple, new form, would require you to keep up with the changes. And then make them available for your users to see. This quickly turns into a repetitive and mundane task that eats into your productive time. Which you could have easily invested into important things, such as growing your business.
The GDPR Bot is designed to give you a completely hands-free and stress-free experience. We run automated scans on your website month after month to update/apply the latest changes to the cookies on your site. What’s more, our plugin takes care of adding form consent to any new forms you create on your website. Even your cookie policy and the privacy policy are automatically updated with the latest changes without you having to lift a finger.
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Yes, each subdomain is treated as a separate domain. But we treat yourdomain.com www.yourdomin.com as one.
GDPR Bot automatically scans your website once every month and sends you a cookie audit report. However, if you have made changes to any specific page or sections on your website, you have an option to re-crawl specific page(s) from the GDPR Bot backend.
No, you don't need to use the Google Tag Manager (GTM). We include a simple and intuitive script manager that helps you manage all your third-party scripts within the GDPR Bot to enable preemptive cookie blocking.
We offer a 7-day free trial during which you can try out all the features of the GDPR Bot service. At the end of the trial, PayPal will charge you the subscription fee. Or, you can choose to cancel the subscription at any time during the trial period.
Yes, we understand that your requirements may change over time, you can reach out to us at support@plugmatter.com anytime during your subscription period and ask for an upgrade. We will help you upgrade by charging you the difference amount.
We have a 30 day no questions asked refund policy. You can reach out to us at support@plugmatter.com any time within 30 days of your transactions and request a refund.
Sure, we can help you set up the GDPR Bot on your website. Please contact us on support@plugmatter.com and we'll be happy to help.
Yes, we have a free WordPress plugin that helps you set up the GDPR Bot on your website. Please search for the "Plugmatter GDPR Bot Integration" plugin in the WordPress Plugins Directory and install it. Or, click here to download it.