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Aviation24.be is preparing for GDPR

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Aviation24.be is preparing for GDPR, I am studying everything right now to be GDPR-compliant.

GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation and it is a new data protection law in the EU, which comes into force in May 2018.

The aim of the GDPR is to give citizens of the EU control over their personal data, and change the approach of organizations across the world towards data privacy.

The GDPR provides much stronger rules than existing laws and is much more restrictive than the “EU cookie law.”

For instance, users must confirm that their data can be collected, there must a clear privacy policy showing what data is going to be stored, how it is going to be used, and provide the user a right to withdraw the consent to the use of personal data (consequently deleting the data), if required.

The GDPR law applies to data collected about EU citizens from anywhere in the world. As a consequence, a website with any EU visitors or customers must comply with the GDPR, which means that virtually all websites and businesses must comply.
  • personal data pertains to “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person” – like name, email, address or even an IP address,
  • whereas processing of personal data refers to “any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data”. Therefore, a simple operation of storing an IP address on your web server logs constitutes processing of personal data of a user.

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I am currently looking whether our terms of use are GDPR compliant:

By accessing “Aviation24.be” (hereinafter “we”, “us”, “our”, “Aviation24.be”, “https://www.aviation24.be/forums”), you agree to be legally bound by the following terms. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all of the following terms then please do not access and/or use “Aviation24.be”. We may change these at any time and we’ll do our utmost in informing you, though it would be prudent to review this regularly yourself as your continued usage of “Aviation24.be” after changes mean you agree to be legally bound by these terms as they are updated and/or amended.

Our forums are powered by phpBB (hereinafter “they”, “them”, “their”, “phpBB software”, “www.phpbb.com”, “phpBB Limited”, “phpBB Teams”) which is a bulletin board solution released under the “GNU General Public License v2” (hereinafter “GPL”) and can be downloaded from www.phpbb.com. The phpBB software only facilitates internet based discussions; phpBB Limited is not responsible for what we allow and/or disallow as permissible content and/or conduct. For further information about phpBB, please see: https://www.phpbb.com/.

You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated or any other material that may violate any laws be it of your country, the country where “Aviation24.be” is hosted or International Law. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned, with notification of your Internet Service Provider if deemed required by us. The IP address of all posts are recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that “Aviation24.be” have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should we see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered to being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, neither “Aviation24.be” nor phpBB shall be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

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And our privacy policy:

This policy explains in detail how “Aviation24.be” along with its affiliated companies (hereinafter “we”, “us”, “our”, “Aviation24.be”, “https://www.aviation24.be/forums”) and phpBB (hereinafter “they”, “them”, “their”, “phpBB software”, “www.phpbb.com”, “phpBB Limited”, “phpBB Teams”) use any information collected during any session of usage by you (hereinafter “your information”).

Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing “Aviation24.be” will cause the phpBB software to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer’s web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter “user-id”) and an anonymous session identifier (hereinafter “session-id”), automatically assigned to you by the phpBB software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within “Aviation24.be” and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your user experience.

We may also create cookies external to the phpBB software whilst browsing “Aviation24.be”, though these are outside the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by the phpBB software. The second way in which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an anonymous user (hereinafter “anonymous posts”), registering on “Aviation24.be” (hereinafter “your account”) and posts submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter “your posts”).

Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter “your user name”), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter “your password”) and a personal, valid email address (hereinafter “your email”). Your information for your account at “Aviation24.be” is protected by data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us. Any information beyond your user name, your password, and your email address required by “Aviation24.be” during the registration process is either mandatory or optional, at the discretion of “Aviation24.be”. In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated emails from the phpBB software.

Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at “Aviation24.be”, so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with “Aviation24.be”, phpBB or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the “I forgot my password” feature provided by the phpBB software. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your email, then the phpBB software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.

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Thanks for all your efforts. What I would much value is the option to accept cookies or not. But perhaps that is not easy to implement, very few websites offer this option.

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jan_olieslagers wrote: 21 Apr 2018, 12:17 Thanks for all your efforts. What I would much value is the option to accept cookies or not. But perhaps that is not easy to implement, very few websites offer this option.
When logging in you have the option stay logged in, or to log in every time you visit. I think that when you opt in a cookie will be placed on your pc.

On the contrary, isn't it much easier to stay logged in all the time ?

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Easy? EASY you say? We have had some excellent opportunities to learn about the dangers of things being EASY, recently. Not for me, thanks.

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jan_olieslagers wrote: 21 Apr 2018, 14:46 Easy? EASY you say? We have had some excellent opportunities to learn about the dangers of things being EASY, recently. Not for me, thanks.
We are doing all we can to keep your privacy Jan_Olieslagers!

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