Over the past 4 months we’ve been working very hard to understand the requirements set forth by the new EU regulation for GDPR, and to comply with all the standards to the best of our ability.
To explain a little bit, GDPR marks a big change in data protection laws in Europe. The GDPR aims to strengthen the security and protection of personal data in the EU.
The good news is we’ll be compliant by the May 25th deadline. The extra good news is all the technical work we’ve put into being compliant has and will benefit our entire community, not just those folks in the EU.
Before the deadline, we will send out an email with all the updates we’ve done, as many are still in progress, including our updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
We’re working to become part of the Privacy Shield program, putting more encryption into play, adding extra security features to our app (like 2FA), and adding in more internal controls.
We are also ensuring that the 3rd party partners we use to help deliver our service (through monitoring tools, email tools, etc) have also taken the necessary steps to become GDPR compliant.
It’s been a heck of a 4 months leading up to this new EU law. As with most regulations, it can be cumbersome to implement the policies and understand the language, but it also helps improve the quality of service for our users.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask! All this information will be emailed out in mid May and also will be updated in our security page.