I‘m setting up a Discourse instance for a community in Germany. Going through the documents the default installation generated, I find the privacy policy, but at least the german version says: Dieses Dokument ist als CC-BY-SA lizenziert. Es wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 31. Mai 2013. Which trans…

We have written an extensive document about the GDPR with respect to Discourse forums. It’s more about what you are doing with Discourse. https://www.communiteq.com/kb/your-discourse-forum-and-the-gdpr/

Our privacy policy at Privacy policy | Discourse - Civilized Discussion takes into account GDPR.

@michaeld Thank you, the GDPR document is really helpful! @HAWK I can see that this privacy policy takes into account GDPR. Does that mean the German translation was just simply never updated?

[image] joa: Does that mean the German translation was just simply never updated? I suspect that is the case, yes.

The stock privacy policy that comes with Discourse hasn’t been updated since 2013 even in English. I don’t know how it would need updating, if it even really does.

Is the default privacy policy updated for the GDPR and can I leave it as is?

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HAWK (Hawk) August 28, 2019, 10:50pm 5

I suspect that is the case, yes.

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Is the default privacy policy updated for the GDPR and can I leave it as is?

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