You set up a status page. Your colleagues have already subscribed to it and are getting all the required notifications. Now internally everybody is aware of the status page service. But now there is the next challenge - make people outside of the company aware of it and use it.

What does it take to write a GDPR compliant privacy policy? It was easier than we realized! This is a continuation of our series on ensuring StatusGator complies with the terms of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. The GDPR has very specific requirements for privacy policies. Companies must provide clear and accessible information about the personal data they collect and what they do with it.

StatusCast helps corporations keep their employees happy by providing unified IT status notifications, which gives them the ability to communicate IT status updates with their employees from a single location. Having to check both a corporate IT status page and a separate one for the organization’s cloud provider to determine the extent of IT issues, lowers employee productivity and job satisfaction.

StatusCast helps corporations keep their employees happy by providing unified IT status pages and notifications, which gives them the ability to communicate IT status updates with their employees from a single location.

Recently, a StatusGator user on our 30 day free trial contacted us to inquire if StatusGator was GDPR compliant. The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is the European Union’s regulation that grants rights and requirements over personal data. Although we’ve been following the GDPR and its rollout for some time now, we haven’t taken active steps to comply with its requirements. We are based in the United States and don’t actively target European customers.

Keeping your customers informed of the status of your website, application, or service is essential nowadays. If you don’t have a status page to communicate this, you’re missing an opportunity to improve transparency and reduce customer support burden. This is especially true if you are running an online business and your website is your main source of income, a status page is crucial not only for your business but for your customers as well.

When an outage hits your service, everybody starts talking. Your engineers are talking about what caused the problem, and how to fix it; your management is asking about when it’ll be fixed; and your customers are telling the world that they’re not happy. But there’s an even more important conversation you should be having: communicating with your users about the issue.

Check out the latest StatusHub updates and features, including "Scheduled maintenance notifications", "Recurring maintenance events", maintenance calendar view for the status page and more for the last two months.