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GDPR Episode 2: A New Privacy Policy

Headquarters of the EU, home of the GDRP

What does it take to write a GDPR compliant privacy policy? It was easier than we realized! This is a continuation of our series on ensuring StatusGator complies with the terms of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. To read the other parts of the series: GDPR Compliance Step 1: Data Erasure and Portability The GDPR has very specific requirements for privacy policies. ...

GDPR Compliance Step 1: Data Erasure and Portability

Headquarters of the EU, home of the GDRP

Recently, a StatusGator user on our 14-day free trial contacted us to inquire if StatusGator was GDPR compliant. The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is the European Union’s regulation that grants rights and requirements over personal data. Although we’ve been following the GDPR and its rollout for some time now, we haven’t taken active steps to comply with its requirements. We are...

Under The Hood: Inside a Status Page Aggregator

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StatusGator is a status page aggregator. We monitor the world’s status pages and provide an all-in-one status page that tracks the status pages each user cares about. But how do we collect and normalize all this data? To get started with StatusGator, you choose the services you already use from our list. For each service, you select the specific components from their status pages that you depend...