Hello Liviu,

Thanks for your comment.

If you only use the theme from MyThemeShop – you don’t need any GDPR plugin. However, you should use it if you use other plugins to collect certain personal information about your users from Europe.

Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Hello Chris,

Glad you liked the article and found this helpful.

Thank you for leaving a comment.

Hello Sid,

Thanks a lot for your comment.

We appreciate you taking the time to write an extensive reply.

We are not lawyers so we are not in a position to agree or disagree with your points.

We would recommend that the website owners should consult a lawyer in these scenarios.

Thank you.

YOU are not liable for anything under GDPR.

The USA is a sovereign Nation State, not subject to the edicts, laws or regulations of either the UN, the EU or any other half-baked alliance of Kings, Queens or Parliamentary Associations. If anything, their laws and regulatory efforts must be compliant with Our Edict, Laws and Regulatory Requirements.

By signing the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement, you admit subservience to the GDPR Authority, thereby becoming a “vassal” of the EU’s regulatory machinery. If you or your business refuse to sign or comply with the agreement, the EU may, under its own laws, prevent its citizens or businesses from accessing or utilizing your online presence, ( of course, they won’t ) but they have no legal presence or authority that compels your compliance if you reside ( or if your web presence originates ) outside the EU.

The standard, common sense, privacy statement utilized by every E-commerce enabled website is already sufficiently compliant without becoming vassals of UN or EU globalist expansion efforts by signature or fait accompli. The same theory applies equally to voluntary Email or Membership subscriptions by EU citizens wherein they supply routine contact information.

IF the Global purveyors of Merchant account and payment gateway services wish to sign and comply with such an agreement, it has no effect on our website businesses since payment processing Data comprises a “Pass Through Transaction” wherein the credit card processor is the only entity maintaining an archival record of the customers data. YOU don’t archive the information so YOU are either exempt or already compliant.

We need to take this very seriously simply because the next step will be to put restrictions on what products are “acceptable” for sale to EU customers. That will be followed by mandated license requirements, product approval requirements, specification submission requirements, licensing fees and Tax mandates. Soon … as in probably THIS YEAR … you will certainly be required to post your Democratic Socialist Affiliation Sticker on your landing page … or be excluded from the EU markets.

Hello Mike,

Glad you liked the article and found it helpful.

Thank you for leaving a comment. Keep visiting.

Hello Ronnie,

Thanks for leaving a comment.

You will need to update both. If you are using our themes, we have already updated them to be compliant. If you are using any other theme, please get in touch with your developer and see if they have already updated your theme for GDPR.

Regards,
Ronnie