Membership Pro and the new GDPR regulations

Yes, I saw that, actually, I watch Joomla development very closely. Still need to finish few things here and then starting next week, I will look at GPDR requirement. Yes, I am in favor of having the extension works with the core, however, I am afraid of it might be too late (I don't think the core can come up with a solution before 25th this month), so I will look at other options as well

Someone mentioned that this third party extension storejextensions.org/extensions/gdpr.html is compatible with GPDR and support Membership Pro, too

Tuan

From what I've seen quite widely, a single checkbox to accept the privacy policy (which needs to be GDPR compliant, of course) should cover most things. As mentioned, the GDPR extension now incorporates Membership Pro and solves this (I also use this excellent extension). I haven't checked it's ability to delete account info though.

However, as there is MailChimp integration in Membership Pro, there needs to be a checkbox to agree to subscription to that. Also, there DEFINITELY needs to be a setting for double opt-in (where a confirmation email is sent by MailChimp with a verification link for the subscriber to confirm). This currently doesn't happen and breaks the *existing* EU data protection requirement, let alone GDPR. Without this, MailChimp integration is useless to your EU customers.

Hi Christinan

1. For a single checkbox to accept the privacy policy option, could you please attach a screenshot of how it should work so that I can understand the requirement better? Seem like the terms and conditions checkbox? Mean just need another checkbox?

2. For Mailchimp, I am going to look at it and get it improved to have it compatible with new rule

Regards,

Tuan

The GDPR extension adds this checkbox and won't allow form processing until it is checked. The text links to the privacy policy. Ideally, the checkbox needs to be with the T&Cs checkbox, but extension limitation won't allow it here.



As you can see, I have added additional text for MailChimp. This currently isn't correct, as MSP bypasses double opt-in. A checkbox is also needed and MailChimp subscription should only be sent if it's checked.

The new GDPR is not very friendly to companies that like to opt people into things they didn't specifically say they wanted. And that's why we have the GDPR... :dry: