Transfer of personal data to & from Wordfence (and subprocessors)

  • Resolved ognid

    (@ognid)


    6 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    I have a couple of questions regarding the transfer of personal data to & from Wordfence (and subprocessors) by the plugin:

    1. Is it possible to specify what data & personal data the Wordfence plugin is sending to Wordfence (the company’s server)?

    2. And what data & personal data is the Wordfence plugin receiving from Wordfence (the company’s server)?

    3. Is sending and/or receiving personal data to/from Wordfence optional?
    4. How to disable sending data to Wordfence? And receiving data?

    Thanks!
    Vincent

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  • Hi Vincent,

    We have listed the data collected in our data processing agreement found here: https://www.wordfence.com/help/general-data-protection-regulation/#data-processing-agreement Scroll down to the Categories of data section. The third bullet item applies to the Wordfence plugin.

    Wordfence needs to receive personal data in order to secure the website such as being able to apply the IP blacklist. You can sign the data processing agreement to lawfully send the data to Wordfence.

    Your site running Wordfence will also be collecting personal data and using it locally (such as the rate limiting) so if GDPR applies to your site, you will want to let your customers know that.

    -Kerry

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