Create a GDPR-compliant privacy policy for your website or app in minutes. This generator covers all required elements under EU data protection law: data categories, legal bases, retention periods, user rights, and controller details.
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3 MIN READ·GuideJan 2026
Do You Need a Privacy Policy on Your Website? (EU Law Explained)
A Belgian startup was fined €50,000 in 2022 for having no privacy policy on its website. Not for a data breach. Not for selling data. Just for not having a policy page. If your website has Google Analytics, a contact form, or even a cookie — you almost certainly need a privacy policy under EU law.
Read guide →3 MIN READ·How-toMar 2026
GDPR Compliance Checklist for Websites (2026)
The three largest GDPR fines in history — Meta's €1.2 billion, Amazon's €746 million, and Google's €90 million — were all issued to companies with legal teams. If the world's most-resourced compliance departments can fail GDPR audits, every smaller website owner needs a clear, systematic checklist to work through. This is it.
Read guide →3 MIN READ·GuideApr 2026
GDPR Data Processing Agreement (DPA): When You Need One (2026)
Under GDPR Article 28, any time a third-party vendor processes personal data on your behalf — whether that's Mailchimp sending your newsletters or AWS hosting your database — you are legally required to have a signed Data Processing Agreement in place. Most small businesses are running without them. A missing DPA is not a technicality: it means every data transfer to that vendor has been unlawful since GDPR came into force.
Read guide →4 MIN READ·GuideApr 2026
GDPR Data Subject Rights: What Businesses Must Do (2026)
GDPR gives individuals eight enforceable rights over their personal data. Businesses have specific obligations for each: time limits, formats, and exemptions that must be correctly applied. The most consequential in practice is the Subject Access Request — you have 30 days to respond, and the UK ICO alone has issued fines and enforcement notices against hundreds of organisations for ignoring them. This guide covers what each right requires and how to build a workflow that keeps you compliant.
Read guide →2 MIN READ·GuideJan 2026
GDPR Fines: Real Examples and How to Avoid Them (2026)
In 2023, Meta received the largest GDPR fine in history: €1.2 billion for transferring EU user data to US servers without adequate safeguards. That same year, a small Hungarian real estate agency was fined €2,000 for emailing a client without consent. The scale is different. The mechanism is identical.
Read guide →3 MIN READ·GuideMar 2026
GDPR and Google Analytics: Are You Actually Compliant?
In 2022, data protection authorities in Austria, France, Italy, and Denmark all issued formal rulings that Google Analytics was illegal under GDPR — and directed website operators to stop using it. Three years later, many website owners are still running Google Analytics without knowing whether those rulings still apply to them, or whether anything has actually changed.
Read guide →4 MIN READ·GuideApr 2026
GDPR Legitimate Interest: When to Use It (and When Not To)
Legitimate interest is the most flexible of GDPR's six lawful bases — and the most frequently abused. Businesses often treat it as a consent workaround: a way to process personal data without asking. Regulators have consistently rejected this interpretation. Meta was fined €1.2 billion in part because it relied on an invalid legal basis rather than obtaining proper consent. Before citing legitimate interest in your privacy policy, you need to pass a three-part test — and document that you did.
Read guide →4 MIN READ·GuideApr 2026
GDPR Privacy Policy for E-Commerce Websites 2026: Full Checklist
A standard blog privacy policy covers contact forms and analytics cookies. An e-commerce privacy policy must cover billing addresses, payment data, order history, abandoned cart tracking, loyalty programmes, retargeting pixels, return and refund records, and product reviews — each with its own legal basis, retention period, and processor. Getting this wrong does not just expose you to GDPR fines: it can trigger a PCI DSS audit, a consumer protection complaint, or an enforcement notice from a national DPA.
Read guide →3 MIN READ·GuideFeb 2026
GDPR Privacy Policy Requirements for Websites (2026)
Under GDPR, virtually every website that processes personal data from EU visitors must publish a privacy policy that meets specific legal requirements. An incomplete or copied policy is not a minor oversight — it is itself a GDPR violation. This guide covers exactly what Article 13 requires, provides template language you can use directly, and gives you a 10-point checklist to audit your existing policy.
Read guide →3 MIN READ·GuideFeb 2026
What Is GDPR? A Plain Guide for Small Business Owners
GDPR fines are not reserved for Facebook and Google. In 2023, a small Portuguese medical clinic was fined €150,000 for letting unauthorised staff access patient records. A Danish taxi company was fined €160,000 for retaining customer data longer than permitted. GDPR applies to every business that processes data from EU residents — including yours. This guide explains what it actually requires, in plain English, without the legal boilerplate.
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