Did you know that ProPhoto 7 has built in features to help you get your site compatible with GDPR?
Over the last few months ProPhoto has released several new features to help Europeans stay up to date with GDPR using ProPhoto 7. We’ve curated a few ways to make your website completely GPDR friendly with your ProPhoto site.
Below, you’ll find some of the things ProPhoto has added in the recent months.
ProPhoto version 7.3.2 or higher is required to fully use all the features, so make sure you’ve updated to the latest version!
The first step to making your site GDPR friendly is to purchase or create a Privacy Policy. We’ve personally purchased, used and love the Easy GDPR course from the Contract Shop. You can take a look here or by clicking the image below.
The course will help you understand what GDPR is, how it can effect you, what you need to implement it in your business, and of course all the documents needed to get you started, including the Privacy Policy and Terms of Agreement. It also comes with support from the Contract Shop if you have questions or need specific help with adjusting your Privacy Policy to your needs.
This course has all 3 things in it that you need + training and support. That includes cookie consent, privacy policy, and terms of agreement.
Once you have your Privacy Policy, you can follow the steps below to create a new Privacy Policy page in ProPhoto 7.
*If you purchased a design from us, some of them already include a Privacy Policy layout ready for you. The only thing you have to do is assign the layout to your page and voila! You’re done!
Now that you’ve assigned your layout to the page, visit the page in your browser and click customize. Typically it would be something like: www.yoursitename.com/privacy-policy
You can of course always go to WordPress > Pages in WordPress to view any page, without typing it into your browser, or if you’re already in the customizer, just click the pages dropdown at the top and select it from the list to view and customize it.
Since your privacy policy content is added via the WordPress page and not ProPhoto, you’ll need to add a ProPhoto 7 WordPress module to the design for it to show up on the layout. To do that, simply go to elements in P7, and drag and drop the WordPress module into the design. If you already previously created a WordPress block in P7 then you can also use that instead.
Here is what our basic Privacy Policy page looks like in our Wander design. We’ve created the layout, assigned it, added the logo, menu and footer blocks, as well as the WordPress content block so the wordpress page content shows up in the layout.
The consent portion of GDPR basically says that if someone submits a form with any type of personal information in it or you collect any type of information through your website that might contain personable, identifiable data, then that user must consent to your privacy policy and or terms of agreement in the E.U.
The last step is adding a consent checkbox to your ProPhoto contact form.
Once it adds it, you’ll want to change the type to “checkbox”
Next, you’ll want to add your link to your page in the label field. To do that, you can easily just copy and paste the code we have below, changing the url out for your own link and then just paste it into the label field.
Do you agree to our <a href=”https://yoursitename.com/privacy-policy”>Privacy Policy?</a>
You can see our exact settings below.
After saving, you’ll have something that looks similar to this.
To turn on ProPhoto 7’s cookie consent for WordPress comments, navigate to ProPhoto > Settings > Comments.
There, you’ll have an option to choose to show an opt in to cookie storage which you can enable. *This option only shows for non logged in users to your website.
A cookie notice allows you to show a bar on your website that tells you that the site uses cookies. While ProPhoto 7 doesn’t have any built in option for a cookie notice, you can always download a plugin and use that instead. There are many different ones out there to choose from, but our own site uses this one from Catapult Themes.
There are probably 50 ways to add the privacy policy url to your design, but we wanted to point out one way by adding it to your copyright footer bar.
First, in ProPhoto 7, go to Settings > Copyright Area > Copyright
There, you can add your own copyright footer text. I’ve made it simple so you can just copy and paste the one below.
© YourBusinessName | <a href=”https://yoursitename.com/privacy-policy”>Privacy Policy</a>
This is just the beginning of new and exciting features being added to 7 to better help you run your business smoothly and efficiently. If you’d like for ProPhoto to add more features in the future, feel free to get in touch with them for suggestions.