As many of you will know, May 25 sees the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - a new law covering data protection and privacy. As with any company that works with data, we’ve done some work to ensure that we’re fully compliant with GDPR. If you’d like to know more about what we’ve done, read on.
We have reviewed and updated our Privacy Policy and provided a page of Frequently Asked Questions. We’ve made it easier to edit or delete the information you give us when you join Gransnet - your registration data. This might be no more than a username and an email address; you can have a functioning Gransnet account with just those two things. However if you also told us your name, age, sex, how many grandchildren you have, and/or your postcode, it’s now easier to see how to edit or delete that information in your ‘My Gransnet’ page.
The ‘My Gransnet’ page is is also where you can delete your Gransnet account (although we would prefer you not to, obviously). Deleting your account will not delete your posts on Gransnet but it will delete all the registration data associated with your account.
By popular request, we will not be deleting Private Message archives as originally planned.
If you receive any Gransnet newsletters, you can unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of the email. If you have a Gransnet account you can also subscribe and unsubscribe to any or all of them here
As you use Gransnet you might see a new notice that tells you when cookies are being used. You can find details about how we use cookies in our Privacy Policy and
FAQs.
But in a nutshell, we use cookies to:
- improve your experience by, for example, remembering that you have logged in and that you like reading threads top-to-bottom;
- show you more relevant content and ads; and
- gather aggregate information about how many people visit Gransnet, how often, and what they look at while on the site (aka analytics).
Long-standing Gransnet users may remember the Profile Page functionality that we rolled out to users many years ago. For now we have decided to default all existing Public Profiles to ‘private’, so that GN users who have put personal information on their profiles have a chance to review and delete it if they want to. You can check whether you have a Public Profile, and edit or delete it, by going into My Gransnet.
If you’re looking for the My Photos page: we’ve suspended this for now - it wasn’t working well and needs a complete revamp. Any photos you had previously uploaded have been deleted from our systems.
In terms of GNHQ’s internal processes, we have put further restrictions in place around which staff members have access to Gransnet users’ personal information.
We are emailing all our members to let them know about these changes. As ever, we really welcome your feedback. Do add comments below or email [email protected] if you have any thoughts, questions or concerns.
