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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon thornomad

GDPR compliance

Open sk-t3ch opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

Hi, I really like this django add on. However, I've noticed that it has a feature of max hits per IP address, which makes me think that the app tracks hits by IP (i'm yet to go through the source code).

Without asking for permission to track a user by their IP address, this goes against GDPR.

Would it be possible to do with the Session ID cookie instead / is this what it already uses?

Thanks in advance

sk-t3ch avatar Dec 22 '18 16:12 sk-t3ch

You can disable the MAX_HITS_PER_IP address but, as written, the code does store the user's IP address. You would need to make modifications to the source code. I am no longer actively developing new features for this.

thornomad avatar Dec 22 '18 23:12 thornomad

Thank you very much for confirming

sk-t3ch avatar Dec 26 '18 00:12 sk-t3ch