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Nexcess has urged customers not to ignore new European Union (EU) privacy regulations. Nexcess, which has global headquarters in Southfield, Michigan, United States and data centers in the United States, Europe and Australia, specializes in performance-optimized ecommerce and CMS hosting. Listed in the Inc. 5000 for eight years in a row, the company’s services extend to “Craft CMS hosting services” and alongside WordPress and Magento, include ExpressionEngine offerings. Known as the ‘General Data Protection Regulation’ (GDPR), the new regulation takes effect May 25, 2018.
The new regulation will “impact all hosting clients that collect or process the data of EU citizens” and will impact “all organizations that do business in the EU”. This includes businesses such as “ecommerce merchants with EU customers, publishers with an EU-based audience, and application and service providers with EU users”. GDPR gives EU citizens additional control over who collects and processes their personal data. A key element of the regulation is that EU citizens must agree to have their data collected. Failure to meet its requirements can lead to fines of up to €20 million ($25 million) or “4% of worldwide annual revenue”.
“We provide hosting for websites and ecommerce stores in the US and Europe, and we are concerned that some hosting clients may not realize that the GDPR affects them and how best to prepare for May 25th,” explained Nexcess’ President and CEO, Chris Wells. "We would urge all online businesses that collect, even incidentally, personal data associated with users in the EU to familiarize themselves with the GDPR and what it requires of them.”
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