Could you be fined $24 Million or more by the EU? The European Union has set new rules, effective May 25, 2018, for the handling of website user and customer information. This new set of rules is called the GDPR or General Data Protection Regulation. Among other very important and detailed requirements, your users must agree to all capturing and storing of their data and activities on your site. They must explicitly opt in and consent to all agreements usage of their data. If you do not reorganize your sites’ policies and procedures to accommodate these new rules you could be held liable for some hefty fines by the EU or more than $24 million.

Get on the path to GDPR compliance now. If you do business with or sell products or services to customers in EU countries you need to get on it quickly since the deadline has already passed! The US is set to increasingly compel companies to abide by these rules so the sooner your business starts gathering and using your customer data properly according to the rules set up by the EU the safer you will be. If you don’t get compliant soon, it could cost your business…