Good question. Yes, I'd like to comply with the EU GDPR requirements of consent for placing cookies and data collection. I have a podcast and actually have a fair number of EU listeners. My only use would be to read the cookie (if available) to determine if they have seen the landing page already and present the 'regular' site to them. I am thinking that I will email them a confirmation and then harvest the email from my email account. I don't have a service yet, for any regular marketing. That will be in the future.

@timhief

Hi

Can you clarify what the landing page content will be, what it and/or the viewer has to do on first visit, and its role in connection with 'harvesting' of email addresses?

John EB

It will be something a kin to requesting the email from the first time visitor for a future newsletter and programming alerts, possibly offering a free download that would not otherwise be available also. It's a work in progress.

@timhief

Hi

. . . .  requesting the email from the first time visitor . . . .

There are two ways to do this without the need for a landing page.

1. The easiest way is to have a Sign up box as part of the home page where the visitor enters their email address in to a text and confirms with a Submit button - the problem then is how you get the email address - see below.
    
2. Using popup similar to the GDPR consent popups, rather than a landing page, with a text box for the visitor to enter their email address, there would also have to be a submit button and a skip/do not show again button. The popup is do-able, Web Designer uses jQuery, as the 'engine' of the web site it generates, which has some functions for setting and reading cookies. However as in 1 getting the email address is a problem.

Getting the email address.

How this could be done depends on the services your hosting company provides.

If they support PHP/MySQL and you are familiar with PHP/MySQL, you could create a database and PHP scripting to insert the email address into the database - reading the information also has several options. There are many examples scripts for doing this on the Internet.

If they do not support PHP/MySQL then the Submit button would have use a mailto:email address link, which opens the visitors email program from which they send an email to you. This adds a step which could put off the viewer from signing up.

There are other ways of getting the email address, however they are 'inelegant', tend to require complicated programming, and can be difficult to manage.

. . . . I'd like to comply with the EU GDPR requirements of consent for placing cookies and data collection. . . .

The guidelines here are a good starting point, although intended for small to medium businesses, as you are collecting personal data, they would apply to - you see the FAQ second item.

You may need to take legal advise on the Privacy Policy statement required.

HTH

John EB