Every subscription to be immediately terminated from stephenmaybury.co.uk

Posted On: May 25th, 2018 at 09:38

Dear everyone,
Yes, it’s another email about GDPR, and we are all sick of them by now. Unfortunately everyone needs to comply by these laws and update their privacy policy by today, 25 May 2018.
Due to coming changes to the website, it is logical for me to unsubscribe everyone and shut the subscription part of the website down until it is rebuilt.
As you know my website was created in 2011 and now a new website will be designed as the current one is very old and in need of an overhaul.
I have never looked at the subscription part of the website in the sense of being concerned with how it functions, etc, because I already know everyone’s data is highly secure and I trust my web developer (for some strange reason!). However, the current law changes have naturally made me take a closer look at that function. To subscribe you type your email address into any page on my website, but to unsubscribe you have to do the same; this will then generate an email that you then click to confirm. This is rather clumsy but it is a part of a seven-year-old system. It was also a bit of a shock to realise that there is no unsubscribe function within the email alerts that are generated. This is a large part of the new laws – that data and ease-of-use, (e.g. opting out clauses) are easy to find and use. Clearly that is not the case with my email alerts.
Since a new website is now being created it seems much easier for my web developer to incorporate these updated functions into the new site rather than messing around making adjustments to the old ones that would then be shut down in due course anyway, so for that reason, and to comply with the new laws, I have to unsubscribe everyone immediately.
I will still continue to upload posts on my website but no one will receive an email alert about them.
So all of this means from this point on there will be no communication between us and I cannot legally contact you about this situation in the future due to privacy, even if you are my friend!
So, if you wish to be informed of the new website when it is up and running please send me a quick email on the contact form of my website and I will make sure you are the first to be informed of the new site.
On that note the new site is going to be awesome with many new functions, including an archaeology photo section, follower interaction / comments / discussion and much more, so watch this space!
Also, the new website will have a completely new name – “stephenmaybury” will no longer be in use although this website may still be active until September 2019. Or at least will be used as a direct link to the new site.
So, that’s it!
Thank you for all the fun over the last 7 years.
Adios!