At least in Poland - according to local law - in order to legally transfer personal data to other EU country (and also to any third party in Poland) we should:
1. Have a formal document of registration personal database in the relevant office of protection of personal data from the owner of piwiki instalation and be ready to show it our Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data if demanded 2. Have a policy of privacy published and got the agreement of any person we want to use their data (ie. pop-up window or flash banner asking for agreement)
Bear in mind also, that vast majority of people will visit our page attracted by centralnotice banner from Wikimedia projects, so we should also follow WMF privacy regulations...
Of course you can take a risk - and do it illegaly...
2013/8/25 Platonides platonides@gmail.com:
On 24/08/13 14:06, Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
Well.. I don't know if central piwiki system for external wikis is legal in all jurisdicitons, especially in EU as it means transfering personal data to third party abroad. At least - pages using such external piwiki instalation should warn their user that their IP, date of access to webesite and browers user-strng is about to be recorded by third party... It also apply to the website which decided to use google analytics or any other such a system not installed on local server.
The piwik server is hosted inside EU and payed by an european chapter.
Your local legislation may vary, but in my humble non-lawyer opinion, transfering to another EU country is fine. I expect that all local laws came from the same european law being “roughly” equivalent, in Spain the relevant law (LO 15/1999) says:
33.1 No transfer of personal data may be performed with destination to countries not providing a protection level equivalent to the one provided by this law unless (...)
34 Exceptions: (...) k) When the destination of the transfer is a state member of the EU or a state about which the Commission of the European Communities has stated that guarantees an appropiate protection level.
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