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Be POPIA Compliant (PTY) Ltd

@bepopiacompliant South Africa joined Nov 2021

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    Be POPIA Compliant caters specifically for the South African landscape, and assist website owners that wish to trade in South Africa to Be POPIA Compliant. However, it is related to the European GDPR, it has many additional functions and therefore a simple Cookie banner will not suffice.

    For the most part following the European GDPR is good practice, but in addition, you have to provide some extra links from your website in order to be POPIA Compliant. There is also the question of how admissible a tickbox is as proof in court since when updating a privacy policy will overwrite the actual original agreement.

    When you use the Be POPIA Compliant Free Plugin, you are able to follow the checklist and ensure everything is in place by ticking the tasks you completed. Once you fully completed all tasks, and you have your SSL certificate active, all the relevant links will be displayed in the footer of your website.

    The easy way to Be POPIA Compliant in South Africa!

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    With all the buzz of POPIA, it is very difficult to determine what is true and what is rumoured, unless you set apart the time to read up on the actual law, particularly the Protection of Personal Information Act, Act 4 of 2013. As if reading and understanding 80 pages of law lingo is not enough of a deterrent, you need to also consider several other Acts of South African Law.

    Since we have already dealt with this with previous clients whom we have built custom systems for, and already consulted with 6 lawers in order to cover our tracks, we decided to make this information available for the masses, being the micro-enterprise owners of South Africa, which mainly rely on WordPress due to its flexibility and ease of use, not to mention the cost-saving as apposed to custom development.

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    March 2022
    Mar 30 Wed · 10:43
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    Posted a reply to Api and Domain fields Do not display after upgrading to pro, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you for reaching out. We found a mismatch in the database where your domain…
    February 2022
    Feb 28 Mon · 15:26
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    Posted a reply to Banner Doesnt Disappear, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Good day. Sorry for only answering now. We notice that you have removed our plugin.…
    January 2022
    Jan 19 Wed · 12:04
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    Posted a reply to Can’t activate plugin: Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    We uploaded version 1.0.11 which should take care of "Can’t activate plugin: Fatal Error". If…
    Jan 19 Wed · 08:50
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    Posted a reply to Can’t activate plugin: Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you for reporting this problem. our team is currently working on it trying to…
    Jan 17 Mon · 12:11
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    Posted a reply to Be Popia Compliant API Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Good day, Wilhelm. Thank you for reaching out to us, and thank you for taking…
    December 2021
    Dec 09 Thu · 06:47
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    Posted a reply to Does not allow Cookie to be read, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Out of the 1 million + Install plugins, WP Fastest Cache is the only one…
    Dec 08 Wed · 10:29
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    Created a topic, Does not allow Cookie to be read, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Good day, Emre. We have written a plugin for POPIA Co…

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