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Originally Posted by DraX
This is a law coming in effect in EU 25th of May - General Data Protection Regulation
From what I understand this is big news, apart from the obvious points I wonder about WHOIS records and domains.
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This is a e-mail from NameSilo so I think all companies will do same.
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Hello Biggus Dickus,
We have updated our Privacy Policy to make it easier for you to understand what information we collect and why we collect it. Furthermore, we have taken steps to improve our default privacy settings to help customers better protect their personal information. We're making these changes as new data protection laws come into effect in the EU/EEA, and we're taking the opportunity to make improvements for NameSilo customers around the world.
So what's changing?
All existing customer accounts will be updated to utilize our Free WHOIS Privacy by default for all new domain registrations and transfers. This change will not affect existing domains in your account. This change only affects the default WHOIS privacy setting for new domains that you register/transfer in the future.
All new customer accounts will default to utilizing WHOIS privacy for new domains
Any domains added to your cart before you are logged in will default to using WHOIS privacy
We will alert you during the checkout process if domains in your cart are not utilizing WHOIS privacy
We've improved the way we describe our practices and how we explain the options you have to update, manage, and delete your data
Any domain contacts which specify a country in the EU/EEA will need to opt-in to disabling WHOIS privacy via an email sent to each contact which explains their options and asks for their consent to have their information published in public WHOIS
Is there anything you need to do?
If you do not want new domains in your account to utilize WHOIS privacy by default, simply login, click "Account Maintenance", and set "Default Privacy" to "No".
If any of your domain contacts specify a country in the the EU/EEA and you do not want WHOIS privacy used, please click here to opt-in to our privacy policy. If you have any domain contacts in the EU/EEA listed on that page which have not opted-in, any associated domains will be automatically set to use WHOIS Privacy on Thursday, May 24, 2018.
We'd like to thank you for your continued patronage, and please always feel free to let us know with any questions, concerns or ideas for improvement.
Thanks,
The NameSilo Team
[email protected]