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Does the extension support European Union GDPR laws?
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/marketing/
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2017/05/businesses-warned-to-prepare-with-one-year-until-data-protection-law-change/
Hi @seansan, is their additional support you would require? We currently support an opt-in process as well as give users the ability choose how they add subscribers to their list.
This is more serious than that and more than simple opt in
Fyi: MailChimp has a special team on it taking it very serious
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 at 16:21, Stephen Martin [email protected] wrote:
Hi @seansan https://github.com/seansan, is their additional support you would require? We currently support an opt-in process as well as give users the ability choose how they add subscribers to their list.
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GDPR is very very serious and a EUROPEAN WIDE LAW
https://kb.mailchimp.com/accounts/management/about-the-general-data-protection-regulation
https://blog.mailchimp.com/getting-ready-for-the-gdpr/
https://blog.mailchimp.com/gdpr-tools-from-mailchimp/
Please work closely with MC to understand. Then solve and support GDPR.
Mailchimp updated its terms, defining new processes
https://mailchimp.com/legal/additional-terms/
What about the cookie from this extension "mailchimp_landing_page"? In my circumstances in preparation for this law, I have disabled eCommerce data for the time being and stripped all order info from mailchimp so I am only using the newsletter functionality (synchronisation of first name, last name and email). I have already implemented the zero1-gdpr solution so all non-essential tracking/remarketing cookies are in google tag manager and highly recommend that in any magento stores road to compliance, but mailchimp is not as simple. I'm still left with this ""mailchimp_landing_page" cookie. I enquired via the mailchimp4magento support concerning this cookie (https://ebizmarts.com/forums/topics/view/27894) and understand it retains data if the visitor came from a newsletter and this data may be passed to mailchimp if the customer order is placed. Given that I have disabled eCommerce data I don't believe this info is being passed on, but I would feel happier if the cookie was not placed on the website visitors website browser in the first place so it does not become a redundant cookie in my extensive transparent cookie policy re-write!! Would it not be best practice for this extension that either there is an option to disable this cookie generation (if ecommerce data is disabled), or that it is automatically disabled if ecommerce data is disabled? Also, is there anything we can do to disable the generation of this cookie?
Melisa helped me out on the support forum, comment out the following lines to disable the cookie from loading https://github.com/mailchimp/mc-magento/blob/develop/app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/ebizmarts/mailchimp.xml#L7-L9
I think the rest of my message is still valid though as GDPR compliance may effect this extension and not just mailchimp. If ecommerce is disabled, this cookie ("mailchimp_landing_page") should be disabled too or there should be an additional setting to disable it. Helpful to achieve a transparent accurate cookie usage and policy!
Hello @jaimiedijstra ,
I just created an issue to only add that javascript if the ecommerce data sending is enabled. Thanks for your feedback!
Regards.
