On May 25, 2018 the European Union is enacting the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). All website owners are obliged to follow this regulation to protect the privacy of their visitors. The following document explains what ZOO, Joomla and 3rd party services mean for your visitors' privacy, what data is collected and what necessary steps you should take to make your websites GDPR compliant.
Disclaimer: This information is not a legal advice and is for informational purposes only. Learn more about the GDPR from the European Commission’s Data Protection page.
Below is a list of external webservices used by ZOO and its elements.
IntenseDebate is a third-party web service that allows you to add a comment management system to your website.
The IntenseDebate element in ZOO lets you add the IntenseDebate system to any of your items.
Akismet is a third-party web service that allows you to filter your users' comments for spam.
If you are using ZOO's comment system and with the "Akismet" option enabled, your users comments will be sent to Akismet to filter out any spam messages.
Using Google Maps on your website will create a NID cookie on the client device. The cookie is used to remember your preferences and for advertising. More information about the different types of cookies used by Google is available in the Google Policies - Types of cookies.
This is a legacy feature, which will not be developed any further. We recommend using a 3rd party extension which offers more privacy settings instead.
ZOO offers options to add social bookmarks to share your ZOO items on third-party web services.
The above list is work in progress and does not yet cover all external services used by ZOO.