Wordfence GDPR Update 2: On Target For May 25th

Preparations to get Wordfence and our organization ready for GDPR continue at Defiant and we are on schedule. Last week we sent out an update that said we are applying for the Privacy Shield certification program for both EU-US and Swiss-US and will soon have available a Data Processing Agreement for our EU customers who need one.

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We have now completed our application for the Privacy Shield certification programs mentioned above. As of this morning, May 16th, our Privacy Shield application has not been processed yet. We expect it to be completed by this coming Monday, the 21st of May.

Once the Privacy Shield application is processed, on Monday, we plan to roll out plugin updates, website updates, policy updates, new ‘Help’ content and a further blog post explaining the updates. Most of this work is already completed, we just need to complete the application process and the rollout.

If for some reason our Privacy Shield application is not processed by early next week, we have a contingency plan in place that would meet the deadline. It will create more work for us, but would ensure that we can continue to serve our European customers and keep ourselves and them GDPR compliant. The contingency plan does not require any changes to our software, only changes to our policies. Hopefully our Privacy Shield application will be processed in a timely fashion and we’ll remain on track. But as they say, hope for the best, plan for the worst.

The bottom line is that by the end of next week, we will have completed our rollout to become fully GDPR compliant. Wordfence remains committed to serving our European customers, along with our US and world-wide customers, and the Defiant team is working hard to ensure that you will remain secure and compliant.

As always, you are welcome to post in the comments below. Just a reminder, I am not a lawyer and, while we have a spectacular legal team of our own (Thank you Charlie, Mark, Corey and K&L Gates!), I can not give you general GDPR advice. I can only advise you on our own progress with regards to GDPR compliance.

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