GDPR Data Retention & Storage Limits

Most WooCommerce stores are not violating GDPR because of how they collect data. They’re violating it because of how long they keep it. GDPR Article 5(1)(e) — the storage limitation principle — requires data to be held no longer than necessary for its stated purpose. Meta retains your customers’ behavioral pixel data for up to … Read more

There is a settings panel in your WooCommerce store you have probably never opened. It is called Personal Data Retention, it lives under WooCommerce → Settings → Accounts & Privacy, and every field in it ships blank by default. Blank means indefinite. Indefinite means you are keeping customer data with no defined end — and … Read more