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Privacy requirements can be overwhelming, especially for small businesses. Sometimes, it’s hard to know where to even start evaluating whether your small business website is compliant with the requirements that privacy laws can impose. However, evaluating your website for privacy pitfalls is important as privacy laws can and do apply to small businesses and non-compliance fines can be high (starting at $2,500 per website visitor). In this article, we will discuss how to check your website for the most common Continue reading the post...

This month, not only are we celebrating 12 years of MainWP, but we’re also celebrating yet another partnership. This time, it’s Patchstack. You may already be familiar with Patchstack, but if not, they focus on vulnerability mitigation for WordPress websites. They are the largest WordPress vulnerability discloser and work with over 1,100 plugins as security partners. What that means in practical terms is simple. Patchstack helps protect your sites by mitigating vulnerabilities before they’re actively exploited. The Webinar Last week, Continue reading the post...

If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say “my business is too small for privacy laws to apply to me”, I’d be rich. In fact, many small businesses assume that privacy laws do not apply to them because their business is too small, they collect too little personal information, they don’t have many (or any) employees, they make too little revenue, or because people input their personal information into website forms voluntarily. However, all of these Continue reading the post...

The fact is that most companies know by now that they need to have a Privacy Policy. Most modern websites collect personal information such as names, emails, phone numbers and IP addresses through features such as contact forms, email newsletter subscription forms, account creation forms, eCommerce, analytics or advertising, thereby subjecting the business to privacy laws, which require them to have a Privacy Policy. When it comes to Privacy Policies, there are a few basic standards that need to be Continue reading the post...

Your management dashboard is infrastructure. Treat it that way. It sits between you and every client site. It touches your updates, your backups, your monitoring, your reports. If you don’t control it, you’re exposed to someone else’s pricing changes, acquisition exits, and roadmap pivots. Agencies are finally asking the question they should have asked years ago: do we own this, or are we renting it? This Is the Operating Reality for Agencies  According to SparkToro’s 2025 State of Digital Agencies Continue reading the post...

As many of you know, California leads the nation when it comes to data protection, whether it be the California Online Privacy and Protection Act (CalOPPA), the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), or the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the State has always been at the forefront of providing privacy protections to consumers. The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) recently enhanced protections for individuals and requirements for businesses by releasing Regulations requiring certain companies to undertake cybersecurity audits. In Continue reading the post...

You have your privacy obligations down pat – you know which privacy laws apply to you, your Privacy Policy is up to date with the latest laws, you don’t track website visitors without consent, and you have a process for replying to privacy rights requests. But have you ensured that your vendors are in compliance too? When you share your customer data with a vendor, you are also responsible for making sure that the vendor processes that data in accordance Continue reading the post...

Today Cloudflare had an outage that affected, what seemed like most of the internet. Starting at about 8:30 AM Eastern and lasting for several hours, countless services simply stopped responding. Social platforms, AI tools, dashboards, and website monitoring services all went dark at once. My first thought was that maybe the internet was rebooting and hinting that maybe we should step outside and see that there’s a whole world out there beyond technology. Possibly true, but doubtful. The truth is, Continue reading the post...

On September 30, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced a $1.35 million settlement with the Tractor Supply Company for allegedly violating the privacy rights of residents of California. The CPPA claimed that Tractor Supply violated California privacy requirements by failing to provide an effective mechanism to opt out of the selling or sharing of personal information, failing to have the required disclosures in its Privacy Policy, and failing to have the appropriate contractual protections when disclosing personal information Continue reading the post...

As a privacy attorney, I wish that I had a dollar for every time someone told me that they are fully compliant with all privacy laws because they have a GDPR compliant Privacy Policy, they provide GDPR privacy rights to everyone, or they ensure that their employees follow the GDPR rules for processing personal data. Since GDPR is one of the strictest privacy laws out there, many business owners assume that if they are compliant with GDPR, they will automatically Continue reading the post...