Don’t save the IP address of the subscriber

Hi,

Under GDPR, you need to keep a record of how you obtained the consent of the user. Therefore, subscriber data is stored by our plugin such as the date/time, IP address, etc.

If you do not use the optional checkbox in your download forms and do not request consent (for marketing purposes for example), the storage of the IP address may be not necessary from this point of view, but as long as this is clearly stated in your privacy policy you still comply with the GDPR.

We are considering building in a filter for the IP address retrieval function. In this way it would be possible to return an empty value, so that no IP addresses are stored. We will look into this with the next update.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.

Kind regards,
Team Download After Email

Hi,
thanks for hearing your point of view.
Here in germany it is always necessary to have a double-opt-in for E-Mail marketing. In our case here, we have to check if the user has really used the download link to get the consent for further newsletter E-Mails.
For that we do not need to store the date/time or IP-address. Not storing it is even easier, because it is then not relevant for the privacy policy or possible deletion periods.
Therefore: Thanks for thinking about a method to disable the storing of the IP address or even the date/time. Really appreciated!
Kind regards
Greendroid

Hi,

You’re welcome ??

Thanks for your reply. If you need an immediate solution to disable the storage of IP addresses, please contact us via our website. We are happy to help you.

Kind regards,
Team Download After Email

Hi,
the quick in-code solution worked perfectly fine.
Today I have seen, that there is an official update of the plugin, which I think enabled the features without necessary code changes.
Unfortunately I cannot find a checkbox or similar to deactivate the storage of the IP adresses in the Options menue.
What do I have to do to further not save the IP adresses of the subscribers without performing the code changes after every update?
Thanks and kind regards
Greendroid

Hi,

Since the update to version 2.1.3, the filter ‘dae_ip_address’ has been added. To disable the storing of IP addresses you can use the following code in your functions.php (child theme) or in a custom plugin:

add_filter( 'dae_ip_address', 'disable_dae_ip_address' );
function disable_dae_ip_address() {
    return 'disabled';
}

@greendroid That’s nice to hear! Only a filter has been added. An option on the settings page may be added in the future. As long as the above code still exists, you don’t need to take any actions.

Kind regards,
Team Download After Email

Great, thanks. The above code was already part of my function.php because of the quick fix from you.
Kind regards
Greendroid