GDPR Compliance and Squarespace

Squarespace’s Irish entity to service non-US users.

As General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect, Squarespace announced their initiative to button everything up. 

The company told its users last week that after May 14, EU site managers would be serviced by Squarespace Ireland Limited.

The company said the move is “in recognition of the global nature of our user base.” Non-US users will hold a Terms of Service agreement with Squarespace Ireland and US users with the New York-based Squarespace, Inc.

Site managers were told that Squarespace would be updating its terms of service and privacy policy “to keep pace with our growing international user base and expanded product offerings, and to ensure that we continue to be transparent about our practices.” The changes were also posted on the company’s blog.

Squarespace also said it will restructure its privacy policy to be clearer about how it handles personal information, as well as clarify how to handle the rights of visitors to your site. It will post a Data Processing Addendum (DPA) explaining how the service will handle the data of site owners and visitors. It also said it would update its cookie, copyright and acceptable use policies and developer terms to make sure they are clear and consistent with these changes.