The General Regulations on Data Protection (RGPD) are already here and one of the new requirements is to adapt our data collection forms. The following are essential For this:
- Include a consent box.
- Include a link to the privacy policy, yes that one that nobody reads and that seems to be made for that, so that nobody reads it 🙂
- And this is the main novelty of the GDPR. Include a first layer of legal information about who is responsible and what the information collected in the form will be used for.
The first two demands were already in the old LOPD, the third is new. Obviously say that the text that accompanies the consent must be in positive and that the box can not be marked in advance because that was already included in the LOPD, law that complements and expands the "new" RGPD (OK, I said).
Adapting your Gravity forms to RGPD
A few days ago, in Cudacu someone commented in a forum that it was a pain to implement the information layer in Gravity Forms. Well, the truth is that it's not so bad. I leave you the following tutorial so you can see how easy it is.
Extra for lazy
Come on, if for some reason you are too lazy to create the form from scratch, I leave you below a template of contact form adapted to the RGPD so that you can import it to your Gravity Forms, although you will have to adapt the data of the first layer of legal information to your website. So that you know how to import this file, I leave the video below with one more tip that I recommend, activate the honeypot to prevent spam from sneaking through your forms.
Conclusion
As you can see the changes are simple, just include the acceptance box and the first layer of information as HTML field. And if, like me, you get paranoid, thank you madrillano ;), you can make the submit button not appear until the user clicks on the acceptance checkbox and, in super paranoid mode, you can include a date field that saves the date of submission of the form in the database and, even more paranoid, you can save the text of the first layer in a paragraph field, in these two cases as administrative fields, i.e. fields that are saved but not shown to the user.
Nothing more, just invite you to leave me your impressions and / or doubts on the contact formI will be happy to answer you by email and to write in this blog. I will be happy to answer you by email and write in this blog.
