General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) becomes effective May 25, 2018

SFI is international, does General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) which become effective May 25, 2018, change how we advertise our gateways? 
What about advertising on blogs? 
SFI is currently updating all our privacy policies and putting in place mechanisms for the other requirements of GDPR.  that it impacts your marketing as an affiliate of SFI.

This Regulation lays down rules relating to the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and rules relating to the free movement of personal data.

This Regulation protects fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons and in particular their right to the protection of personal data.

The free movement of personal data within the Union shall be neither restricted nor prohibited for reasons connected with the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data.

NO SPAMMING

Spamming continues to be a serious problem on the Web. SFI rigorously opposes the practice of spamming and is committed to doing our part to eliminate spam.Check out the SFI Affiliate Agreement for a detailed list of what SFI considers SPAM. You might also want to read about SPAM in this Wikipedia entry.

NO CROSS-SOLICITING

Soliciting SFI affiliates for other business opportunities is strictly prohibited.If you wish to be involved with other network marketing companies or business opportunities, that's fine; we have no problem with that at all. Just don't use any SFI communication program or tool (including, but not limited to, PSA and CSA group mailers, a2a, TeamMail, etc.) to promote to other SFI Affiliates about these outside businesses or for-profit endeavors.

When you cross-solicit other SFI Affiliates, you are are betraying EVERYONE in your entire group who is focused on the SFI system! It's unprofessional and it's unethical. If you are caught cross-soliciting your SFI upline or downline affiliates, your SFI account will be terminated, and you will lose all your SFI benefits, 

NO CROSS-LINING

Soliciting SFI affiliates from other organizations to rejoin under you is strictly prohibited.

SFI is a very large, global organization, with over a million affiliates located in virtually every country in the world. Hence, you may encounter fellow affiliates all over the Internet and even interact with them on social media sites, like Facebook, Twitter, etc. Interaction, sharing ideas, etc., is allowed and even encouraged. However, under no circumstances may you request or encourage an SFI Affiliate from another affiliate's organization to register as an SFI Affiliate under you.

NO AUTORESPONDERS

The SFI system is built around an extensive e-mail communication system. Therefore, you may not use an e-mail address that uses an autoresponse (automatic reply) message. Thousands of our affiliates receive dozens of e-mail messages and notifications from us each week. If autoresponders are on, that means we GET BACK THOUSANDS of useless messages that we then must wade through one by one so that we don't miss the legitimate messages with your important questions, suggestions, etc. It's also a huge waste of bandwidth.

So, if you have an autoresponder on your e-mail, you must either SHUT IT OFF or provide us with a different, separate e-mail address that you'll use for SFI communiques. If this is not done, your SFI affiliateship will be canceled.

UNAUTHORIZED REGISTRATIONS/UPGRADES

Registering new affiliates or upgrading your affiliates' ranks without their consent is strictly forbidden and is grounds for suspension or termination of your account. See the SFI Affiliate Agreement for more details.

ADVERTISING

You must use SFI-approved ads for sponsoring new Affiliates and referring new TripleClicks customers. Note that you can use the text ads, or you can use wording from any of the banners.

If you are a Team Leader, you may submit your own ads for our approval. They must be approved, however, before you can publish them.

If you're writing a new ad, here are a couple of tips:

* Avoid ANYTHING that sounds like a guarantee of income.

* Yes, the SFI system takes a huge amount of the "grunt work" out of building a sales organization, but please don't suggest that "we do all the work." In SFI's opinion, this kind of offer attracts lazy, unmotivated people—exactly the opposite of what you want. Often, ads that say "no work involved, they do everything," are dismissed without so much as a two-second look; most really good business-builders probably react the same way. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and intelligent people know that.

OTHER

Domain names may not be used as the name on your SFI account. This is to prevent cross-solicitation via the SFI Scoreboard, Forum, and other published lists.

Hope this will help and will enlighten us.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

When people click on your gateways they opt into you sending them emails and if they want they can easily opt out of SFI so there are no problems with you advertising your gateways.

As SFI do work with people who are from Europe that is why they will be updating their privacy policy and it also covers us as affiliates.

Continue to advertise and grow your business and good luck to you all.

Yes, if you have a WordPress site, they JUST as of 4.6.9, offered ways you can download the data, and ways you can now delete the requested data as well. However, even with this in place, when I ran one of my sites through the cookiebot.com, it still said I was not GDPR compliant. I think they want a way for the user themselves to manually opt in or out of accepting cookies as well. I still need to look into plugins for this. Cookiebot's system has a trial available for theirs, but I need something free. Hopefully, I have this solved for my sites before Friday. The main points, as I understand them, is that if you collect information on your visitors/customers, you have to be transparent about it, have a published and easily accessible privacy policy...and you have to provide an easy way for your visitor/customer to have his/her information deleted from your servers upon request.

 it’s a new type of privacy policy that us as advertisers must comply when with handling data from users within the EU. No matter where your business is located, if you have traffic coming from the EU, you fall under this regulation. 

"So... What does this mean for me and my business?"
cookie consent 
If a user in the EU visits your website, you will need to ask for consent to use a cookie (aka, your Facebook Pixel).


This can be done in a different way such as displaying a prominent message on a header banner when a page loads for the first time (usually called a "Cookie Banner") and informing users what action to take to consent (i.e. "I Agree" or "I Disagree").

Here is a free GDPR plugin for you:
wordpress.org/plugins/gdpr/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/gdpr/#what%20is%20gdpr%3F

https://wordpress.org/plugins/gdpr/#how%20do%20businesses%20benefit%20from%20gdpr%3F

https://wordpress.org/plugins/gdpr/#who%20does%20the%20gdpr%20affect%3F