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  • December 3, 2017 at 12:55 pm #884323
    Hokuspokus

    Dear Kriesi,

    a new German court decision is there; Please make a revision – urgent – to protect your German users.
    OLG Köln (Az.: 6 U 121/15)
    All contact forms must have an unfilled checkbox, which must activated before send with a law text and a link to the privacy policy.
    Otherwise, users which use your standard contact form are at risk to get a penalty of several hundred euro with additional own legal cost or risk or a legal process.

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    Ich habe die Datenschutzerklärung zur Kenntnis genommen. Ich stimme zu, dass meine Angaben und Daten zur Beantwortung meiner Anfrage elektronisch erhoben und gespeichert werden.

    Hinweis: Sie können Ihre Einwilligung jederzeit für die Zukunft per E-Mail an E-Mail-A (Email address hidden if logged out) widerrufen.

    PS: Why you not add a patcher for such cases?

    Cheers

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by Hokuspokus.
    December 3, 2017 at 1:36 pm #884330
    Guenni007

    Many thanks for that info!

    Danke vielmals – !

    By the way – those who uses such Autoresponder E-Mails for some advertisements colide with german law too:

    https://kirmse.eu/auto-responder-als-e-mail-spam/

    Keinerlei Werbung also in die E-Mails mit hineinpacken. !

    December 6, 2017 at 7:36 am #885400
    Ismael

    Hi,

    Thank you for the info. We’ll forward this to Kriesi.

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    December 12, 2017 at 12:28 am #887614
    Guenni007

    But – i read that decision now – the concerning site doesn’t have any data protection note. So the court said that on the place where those datas are collected – there must be a note.
    As i understand it now – if you got an extra page vor data protection note – this will be not necessary.

    December 12, 2017 at 5:22 am #887704
    Ismael

    Hi,

    Thank you for the info. I hope the note is sufficient for now. We’ll forward this again to Kriesi.

    UPDATE: You can add a checkbox in the contact form element. Can you use that?

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    December 12, 2017 at 9:54 am #887799
    Hokuspokus

    Dear Günni & Kriesi,

    we all know: In court does not win the one who is right.
    And different lawyers and courts can make different judgments. (In Berlin, the court decide in another way)
    But every letter and warning from a lawyer will take money from your pocket.

    I got a Newsletter from e-recht24.de. The lawyer recommended to insert in Contact form this checkbox. Other laywers have not the same opinion.
    And yes, this will pertub the design of webpages. And some people should make internet driving licence, for understanding, that a filled and sended contact form result in datas, which are saved on a server.

    Cheers

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by Hokuspokus.
    December 13, 2017 at 1:35 pm #888328
    Ismael

    Hi,

    Thank you for the update. In the contact form, add a new checkbox element then you can place the “law text” and “privacy policy” link in the “Form Element Label” field. Make sure that the “Form Element Validation” is set to “Is not empty”.

    Best regards,
    Ismael

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