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  Public Ticket #3110005
DSGVO / GDPR issue with Google Fonts
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  • webdesignetc started the conversation

    Hello there,

    your theme ANIMA is subject to a Compliance issue that we are facing here in Austria as part of the EU. An austrian lawyer is sending out legal warnings right now facing the clients to pay 190,- EUR and to stop pulling Google Fonts from the fonts.googleapis.com Servers without taking an agree from the User to do so.

    This means that every request towards fonts.googleapis.com without a permisson is a legal issue under the DSGVO law.

    Unfortunately your theme ANIMA is pulling Google Fonts by itself - see screenshot. I found at least three code lines where your theme pulls fonts from the Google Fonts Servers.

    Please provide a fix or an update ASAP. It could mean that you either provide a locally saved Google fonts file instead or that the user is able to deactivate alle Google Fonts requests INCLUDING the standard calls from the theme.

    Please take not that many clients in Austria already are facing this Compliance issue which will spread to other contries in the EU too because it is an EU restriction.
    Thank you for your help!!

    Attached files:  google-apis-calls.jpg

  •  854
    Neuron replied

    Hi,

    We really apologize for this.

    I'm preparing a child theme to send to you to remove the google fonts, so then we can upload them manually, and this will solve the issue.

    I'm sorry if this takes a bit of time as I'm making multiple tests for the child theme.

    Feel free to ask for anything you need.

    Kind Regards


  •   Neuron replied privately
  • Webdesign etc. replied

    Thank you. That Child Theme solved the problem.

  •  854
    Neuron replied

    You are welcome anytime, feel free to ask for anything you need

    If you like our theme, please leave us a rate of 5 stars at ThemeForest, that would help us a lot.

    Kind Regards,
    NeuronThemes