@Luke-Parkes-Haskell said in is Notepad++ compliant with GDPR:
@PeterJones They’re not factual errors, unless you’re being maliciously pedantic.
That I need an account to access the forums isn’t the issue, this is expected, it’s ‘necessary’ for it to be the case. The software however explicitly asks to process and store your details for use in a mailing list - it doesn’t matter if there is no such list, nor does it matter that the e-mail feature is disabled. The existence of that checkbox, which is mandatory to access these forums, is not GDPR compliant.
That this isn’t an ‘official support forum’ is also totally irrelevant; it’s the ‘official’ community attached directly to the main project’s website, and is where you’re directed if you’re looking for support through the main website.
As far as I can tell, that summary post is completely unrelated to the complaint brought up here.
Here is a screenshot of the signup page where you create an account for these forums:
So yes,you’re completely right.
This page says that you are registering and/or creating an account. It uses both terms.
It explicitly requires you to opt into emails as part of signing up. It informs you that it will default to sending you weekly emails, and on the settings page it appears to show the same setting by default:
So one or more things should probably change. For those who are concerned about sharing your email, I was too because all the OAuth providers used to sign up use my private email which I did not want to be shared. However when choosing GitHub, even though it says that it will share all your private emails, the forum software defaults to using your [username]@users.noreply.github.com email account. This I’m happy with, and then I changed my username after the fact.
