Strings Attached: what your website’s free extras really cost

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Someone on the committee adds an Instagram feed to the home page. It looks lively, it took ten minutes, and it cost nothing. From that moment, every visitor to your site is also announced to Meta, usually as soon as the page loads, and whether or not they have an Instagram account. Your group has…

Website & Data Protection: Self-Check for Community Groups

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How to use this You and your group, not your web developer or host, is responsible for how you handle personal data. This checklist helps you work out what you actually do, so you can write an honest privacy notice and spot the risky habits. This is a prompt for thinking, not legal advice, we’re…

Do you consent?

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This article ought to be titled do you consent to being monetised, but the editor thought that was too many words …