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Brewfest Week 2: Warriors Dirty Fighter Conversion Kit

Our first post for week 2 is advice for staying alive- no matter what it takes. Using the Tavern brawler feat and improvised weapons, a variety of unconventional tactics become available.

This one actually went up early on the foundry a little early, and you can read this article with the original formatting there.

Kit Overview

Investment Type: 'Half' Feat (In place of an Ability Score Increase [ASI])

Minimum Investment: One of your precious ASI slots- this stings less if you're a Fighter or Rogue.

Overall Impact: You are able to utilize unconventional forms of attack without penalty, making combat more expressive, and opening up new strategies.

Investment

This is one of the easiest conversion kits to access, in theory. By simply taking the Tavern Brawler feat, you have access not to a single new fighting style, but to a variety of new techniques ranging from unconventional weapons and unarmed strikes to truly off-the-cuff improvisation that may fit with any number of fighting styles.

Evaluating the investment here is a little bit odd though, because while any conversion kit does you no good unless you use it, you're likely to think you'll use this more than you actually will. You'll imagine yourself throwing stones, plucking a lit torch from a sconce and swinging it like a flaming club, or any manner of truly off the cuff attacks- but realistically, you need a plan.

And I hear you- "how can I plan to use an improvised weapon"?

But here's the thing, improvised does not strictly mean you've made the decision to use an object as a weapon in the moment. The weapon can be improvised in the sense that it is not meant to be used as a weapon- or, if you ask certain designers, a weapon being used in a way it is not meant to be used is considered improvised.

And there's the rub: the real investment is yours, not your character's. To get a plan in place, you need to understand what an 'Improvised Weapon' is in terms of DnD5e. If you're the type to use this feat, your wheels might already be turning.

So what is an improvised weapon?

It is a distinct type of weapon- it is not a simple or martial weapon.

It deals 1d4 damage, and it is a thrown weapon with a 20/60 range.

It does not have any other properties- it is not a finesse weapon, a heavy weapon, a light weapon, or two-handed weapon (By default).

It is still a weapon, for any feature which may require one.

So simply put, you can't (effectively) two weapon fight, sneak attack, great weapon fight, or similar with an improvised weapon. We'll discuss what you can do in the mechanical impact section, but I wanted to set aside any misconceptions out of the gate.

Before we move on to the narrative impact, I'm going to lay out the feat's benefits, because they're rather broad:

You add your proficiency bonus to attacks with improvised weapons.

You roll a damage die with your unarmed attacks, rather than dealing a single point of damage.

When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike or improvised weapon on your turn, you can use a bonus action to attempt to grapple the target.

(Remainder below the cut)

Narrative Impact

The narrative suggested here is obvious- you're a brawler. You fight with your bare hands, grab the nearest combatant by their shirt collar, and maybe smash an empty ale bottle over their head. But your narrative options? Those are near limitless.

Are you a fighter that catches foes off guard with shield bashes, pommel strikes, and kicks?  A paladin or cleric so committed to hunting undead and fiends that they utilize holy water and wooden stakes as a matter of course? An alchemist or wizard that deploys alchemical concoctions by splashing or tossing them at nearby foes? A monk whose flowing movements and measured blows are supplemented by a pragmatic willingness to apply brute force where necessary? An assassin who deploys inhaled poisons by simply lobbing their containers?

If you have an unconventional combat tactic in mind, this feat will make it possible. The trouble is going to be getting something out of it mechanically. If you don't mind losing a little mechanical edge for a little bit of expression, there are some very cool things you can do. However, let's look at ways you can get a mechanical boost out of it.

Mechanical Impact

Okay so we've talked about how there's some interesting imagery we can get out of this feat, and maybe some mechancial benefit, but how do we get there? I think there are three broad categories of mechanical impact you can get out of this feat. In no particular order Brawling, Unconventional Weapons, and Payload Delivery.

That's a whole bunch of seemingly meaningless jargon: let me explain.

Brawling

This is the impact the feat was named for. This is best used by strength-based frontliners: the usual suspects are Barbarians, Fighters, Monks, and Paladins.

However, we're aiming for unconventional here aren't we? Blade Pact Warlocks, Rangers, Clerics, and Wild-Shaped Druids can certainly get in on the action if they have the strength to back it up- or a Rogue with expertise in Athletics.

The trick to brawling is simple: You want to leverage the feat's 3rd benefit and grapple as a bonus action. You probably want to dole out some damage on that grappled target or take advantage of the grapple to keep them disabled.

So you need two things here: a trigger for the grapple and a follow-through. Fighting unarmed or with a one-handed weapon is ideal here. Good thing this feat sets you up for that in several ways.

To trigger your bonus action grapple, you need to make a successful unarmed strike or with an improvised weapon. Depending on how many free hands you normally have, that might be quite easy, or it might be a little complicated.

Monks have it easy here, every attack they're likely to make opens up this bonus action. Afterwards you can follow through with Flurry of Blows, perhaps even knock them prone if you're following the Way of the Open Hand. You could even use both hands to grapple and do this to two separate targets while continuing to fight with your feet- though your DM might start to balk at this point. Wild-Shaped Druids have it just as easy- even if your DM doesn't consider natural attacks unarmed strikes (a fair interpretation, to my mind), nothing's stopping you from making an unarmed attack anyway- just don't use the teeth and claws until you have your target grappled.

Now if you're a Fighter wielding a one handed weapon and nothing else, well, problem solved. If you're a Fighter or maybe Barbarian wielding a two handed weapon, you can simply take one hand off of the weapon to strike and grab. You might be able to follow through by using your weapon to make improvised attacks against the target. If your DM rules that the two-handed property can't be overridden by making improvised attacks, you might be able to use knees, feet, or elbows to strike the grappled target.

If you're a sword-and-board Paladin or Fighter, well, now things are more complicated. You can drop your weapon to make an unarmed strike followed by a grapple, but your DM is unlikely to let you pick that weapon back up immediately if it doesn't work. But you can make an improvised attack with the shield, and drop the sword to execute the grapple if it works. If you're a two-weapon Ranger or similar you can execute a similar maneuver by striking with the pommel or handle of your weapon and dropping one of them to execute the grapple. The follow-through here consists of further improvised attacks with the shield, or attacks with the remaining one handed waeapon.

Unconventional Weapons 

Many pieces of 'adventuring equipment' in the PHB are treated as improvised weapons when you attack with them. This feat, oddly, is the only way to gain proficiency in the use of these weapons.

Alchemist's Fires, Acid Vials, Holy Water, and Oil Flasks are the only 'official' options I'm aware of, but even these are useful as sources of on-demand elemental damage for characters that don't normally have access to it.

I struggle to think that a DM who wasn't utterly adversarial refusing to allow you to make other simple weapons- a molotov cocktail, for example. I also think it would be perfectly reasonable to deliver inhaled or contact poisons by lobbing a vial. That's pretty much the definition of an improvised weapon attack- plus there's precedent in in most of the 'official' improvised weapons for lobbing vials.

This makes for an extremely unpredictable character if you're a non-caster. Battle Master Fighters, Rogues (especially Thieves), and certain Monks can deploy a simply staggering number of tactical options- from the right damage for the situation, to devastating conditions, to denying an area to their foes.

If you are a caster, there are some neat tricks you can do with spells. Fire spells can be enhanced by oil, and using a catapult spell to launch an improvised item doesn't require you to be proficient, but at low levels it's nice to be able to use the item if you're out of spells. The primary draw of using this method with spellcasters, in my mind, is that casters tend to be proficient in the sorts of tools that create unconventional weapons, so you can keep yourself supplied.

This fits quite well with Artificers and Wizards for most tools. Clerics, Paladins, and perhaps Celestial patron Warlocks could create Holy Water. It seems less likely that Sorcerers or other types of Warlocks would use this method, but nothing is stopping them.

Frankly, if you're the type to use spells that don't deal direct damage, you're more likely to find use for unconventional weapons. If not, your damage spells will always far outstrip the usefulness of these items. If you're playing a Thief or Battle Master, you 're already looking for opportunities to apply a unique skill set- this just expands your toolbox.

Payload Delivery

There's little tactical benefit to this technique, in most scenarios. This method disregards the damage and other properties of improvised weapons, and simply uses the fact that improvised weapons are weapons to deliver the damage of another feature in a flavorful or unexpected manner.

This primarily serves the purpose of expression without sacrificing effectiveness, but you might also gurantee that you can use your class features even if your weapons are not accessible- this may or may not be important to you depending on your campaign and character.

Paladins and Warlocks can deliver their (Eldritch) Smites through improvised weapons so long as the attack is a melee attack, and Battle Masters can deliver their maneuvers at range or in melee through improvised weapons. Green Flame Blade and Booming Blade, favored by Bladesingers and Eldritch Knights, don't discriminate against improvised weapons. In certain circumstances, this might let you continue to fight effectively even if you're doing another important job with your hands, such as bearing the party's light source.

Delivering conditional damage, such as sneak attack or great weapon fighting, can be more challenging since improvised weapons don't have properties, but you might convince a DM that a rail spike should be a finesse weapon or that a table should be heavy. Talk to your DM about these sorts of strategies before you take this feat.

Kit Support

Talk to your DM. Improvised Weapons fall almost entirely under the purview of the collaboration between players and DM. Odds are good that if you aren't trying to break the game (and none of these strategies should), your DM will look for ways to reward you for adopting an unconventional strategy. Especially if they know where you're going with it ahead of time.

That said, most of the ways to enhance the use of this feat that are actually found within the system are the few items on the adventuring gear table that are called out as improvised weapons- which we have discussed at length.

Perhaps there are others floating around in various published adventures or setting books- if you have access to those books, perhaps give them a once over.

Pitfalls

I don't need to tell you that your DM can handily ruin this one for you.

What I do need to tell you is that if your plan isn't thought through, if you haven't explained your plan to your DM beforehand and they balk, or if you're expecting this feat to form your entire battle strategy rather than being a single tool for your kit, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

Otherwise, making sure your character can use at least two of the feat's three applications reduces the odds your strategy will simply never be relevant in actual play.

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The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 4 Review: Treehouse of Horror XXXI

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This The Simpsons review contains spoilers.

The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 4

Halloween is the special time for many series, giving them the chance to throw logic and canon out the window to plumb the fantastic for fearful flights. But The Simpsons season 32, episode 4, “Treehouse of Horror XXXI” opens with the scariest of all fantasias: Reality.

The episode begins a short while after Halloween on what looks to be the most frightening day in recent memory, the upcoming election between Trump/Putin and Someone/Anyone. The sequence includes a list of reasons to vote against Trump (Made it okay to shoot hibernating bears, put children in cages, called Mexicans rapists, imitated disabled reporter, looks lousy in a tennis outfit, can’t get wife to hold hands, called third world countries **** holes, called Tim Cook ‘Tim Apple’ …). Each more surrealistically real than the last. The list is long, so long you can’t make them all out during the crawl. They are detailed, amazing, includes one that is made up, and thorough. Homer’s commentary is priceless. But so are the rest of the political barbs in the pre-segment, such as when a heavily medicated octogenarian tells a potential voter he needs two forms of ID. “Twelve if you’re a Democrat.”

The opening segment isn’t all blatant politicking. Some of it is strictly silly. Homer understands and knows where he stands on all the judges and propositions, but when it comes to the presidency, he can’t pick. It’s not like he has to choose between beer, pretzels and donuts. Of course, the dire predictions of doom are slightly exaggerated in the animated, and Halloween-infused, world of “Treehouse of Horrors,” but it’s probably scarier than the entire season of The Walking Dead: World Beyond. The rest of the episode plays it for laughs.

Toy Gory

The first segment is a parody of the children’s classic Toy Story. Marge is a loving mom, giving Bart his last moments with his toys before he gives them away to charity. But we learn from the cleverly worded and Disney-sonic opening song this is not a kid who plays well with others, breathing or plastic. “You put a dent in me, you broke my head in three,” a sorrowful and scornful Randy Newman knockoff sings in a throaty nasal. Bart is apparently the rotten kid next door in this tale. Is it any wonder, though? His new Radioactive Man action figure comes with real radioactivity. The Simpsons likes to play with the after effects of atomic energy. The box warns about keeping the toy away from users’ scrotums, Abe thinks he left his in his other pants and Homer’s had a long history with the atomic effect.

Speaking of effects, the imagination captures the 1995-era computer-animated look and feel of Toy Story with subversive intent. Krusty the Clown, Bart’s most beloved toy one imagines, is the Woody in this. He is also the one who fosters dissent and leads the revolution. Ultimately, Bart becomes the perfect toy owner, but it’s not exactly a happy ending. Dr. Hibbert’s X-ray of Bart comes straight out of the Operation game. Hibbert explains Bart’s bones are Tinker toys. He has a Build-A-Bear heart and his brain is pop rocks and silly putty. He also has tennis elbow, hoof in mouth, frog in throat and is limited to only one semicolon. Not only that, he now stoically appreciates bad puns like “Don’t ask, don’t Mattel.” The Simpson family lost Bart at “I love you” and the message of the segment is don’t buy toys. It is perfectly chilling.

Into the Homer-Verse

The Simpsons go full on Homer-Barbera for this tough-loving tribute to the classic cartoon studio. A search for Halloween candy leads Homer on a hunt through the nuclear plant in search of giveaways sweeter than Advil. The bit where Homer is actually going through all the N&Ns and Rhesus snacks on his desk is a highlight, reminiscent of when Elaine ate a centuries-old, and terribly expensive, wedding cake on Seinfeld. Burns, who has Hansel and Gretel caged in a secret lab, prefers his snacks stringy and tough, so there wouldn’t be any sweets there. While he doesn’t find candy, Homer does cause a quantum flash of celestial energy which bursts a hole into an unstable universe, one where no one knows what a Murgatroyd is. The other realm is filled with cartoon Homers, from his Snaggle Puss counterpart through his noir version to a gaming animation pixilation. Disney Princess Homer brings new tonal beauty to the word “d’oh.” It sounds confusing, until Lisa sings it.

The best exchange of the Homer-Verse is when Homer walks past security in a restricted area. The guard says no one is allowed back there. When Homer asks what the guard is doing back there, logic and tasers go flying. It is a surrealistic solution to an abstract problem. The Krustyburger solution of having to find “other sources of meat” to contend with the six new, and hungry hungry Homers is equally surreal, but far crueler, which makes it just as funny. Until Gil gets there and you realize someone might lose their lunch.

“Eat the bacon, victory is mine,” we hear as Japanese Anime Homer sits down with the rest of the misplaced beings to a hearty breakfast. It is a very short segment but exquisitely executed. The Homers overwhelm Marge’s kitchen and threaten the delicate balance of interdimensional relationships. The portal they opened also affects labor relationships as the Burnsiverse knows where to get cheap, undocumented labor and the Smithersverse takes copious notes. Each of the Homers will die over and over again, which isn’t a horrible problem, except they will also die again. Lisa, of course, solves the problem using Harlon Ellison’s law of circular storytelling, as the episode exits, stage left, to run a circular saw over the same premise from a different angle.

Be Nine, Rewind

The Groundhog Day sendup begins with Harry Nilsson’s “Gotta Get Up,” the song, which was also featured in Russian Doll, grows more frantic as days and things get pounded like so many bubbling waves. It’s Lisa’s 9th birthday and she’s not sure if she’s ready to be halfway to adulthood. She doesn’t even want to put “Night Night Moon” in the hand-me-down box. The box is for Bart, who is actually ahead of Lisa in school, making it an eye-roller of a bit. Everything is fine until Homer steals frosting from the birthday cake with his finger. The many deaths of Lisa which follow are a tour de farce. Almost every line and sight gag builds on the ones before it, although the most specifically funny death involves a vanity mirror and is both the most and least expected of the lot. It is a millisecond of comic transcendence.

That can’t be said for Krusty’s balloon animals: a cigar, a snake, a worm and a 2×4. He gives out the same unimaginative throwaways at every party, and most Krustyburger grand openings. It’s a running gag that his jokes are all stolen, so feel free to read into the clown’s less than stellar performance. The closing scenario is the most hopeful. Probably just because we lose Gil, again, during it. He generously gives Patty a great set up. He kills a kid on the road test for his driver’s license. He’d better make it up on the written portion. It’s funny because, in many states, it’s relatable enough to be true.

The Simpsons season 32 has been offering consistently satisfying episodes of straight and subversive humor. “Treehouse of Horror XXXI” is the best of the season so far, but the Treehouses are always season highlights, and more reliably than Christmas episodes. No character is safe on Halloween. You can kill Gil as many times as you like. The Simpsons always packs a devilishly delicious trick or treat bag, with nothing so frightening as razor-blade-concealing apples, or anything else remotely nutritious. The opening segment is a political thriller, but the segments themselves are classic comedy.

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12 Guidelines for a Web Designer (CSS/HTML)

You know to understand and explaining the guidelines especially when it comes to usability of your business’s website is an assured way to increase your client foundation.

The websites that are not user-friendly are not suitable. Simply put, if your website is not friendly for the people who go to your page, visitors will go elsewhere. Building trust and make them sure your website is easy and quite comfortable to access, efficient to work upon, and subsumes accessible content are some of the important guidelines for web designers needs to follow.

You should also think to have your own website experimented especially for usability. And, when you test your website, you'll be capable to figure out what is going right, what is going wrong, and what might need to be changed, right?

In today’s global marketplace, it’s certainly not enough to just have a digital presence. So, to grab an opportunity and enthrall real, live, human students & readers, an optimized, practical, and interactive website is a must.

Unfortunately, today the Internet is crowding with inadequate website designs that miss both the technological and content mark. Ineffectively yet, clients and also the developers alike continuously contribute to the modern outbreak of design delinquency in the same measure.

Now, you could spend eons studying the major ins and outs of usability and UX, but here for the sake of giving you a jumping-off point, we've put collectively the subsequent list of important guidelines to apply to your next web design project. Let’s take a dive into the major guidelines for creating a user-friendly website.

1.Make It Readable

The readability comes at the top of its list and that every designer must focus whilst create a website. Readability of your CSS is very significant, though utmost people overlook why it's important. Excellent readability of your CSS designs is much simpler only to maintain in the future, as you'll be able to find elements quicker. Also, you'll never know who might need to look at your code later on.  

<editors-note> When creating a website with CSS, many of the developers fall into one of two groups.

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You know what, that both practices are perfectly acceptable, though you'll generally find that group two despises group one! Just remember - choose the method that looks best TO YOU. That's all that matters.

2. Plan Your Layout

It is always wise to draw a layout of the particular website that you are going to design. To plan the designing and creating a website with an eye-catching view matters a lot for a web designer. So before creating a website do remember the major point of planning a layout. Look at the below shot, you will get it more clearly.

3. Use the Right DocType

While designing a website, the doctype declaration matters a whole lot on whether or not your markup and CSS will approve. In fact, the complete appearance and feel of your site can alter greatly depending on the DOCTYPE that you declare.

Here is how we do it:

4. Providing Style Sheet Information

Another important character of creating a catchy website is to incorporate author, tags, title, description, accurate URL information, and other aspects within your stylesheet. So here, whenever the user or developer who would need a reference or other features at any point in time, they will quickly attain the contact person as well as all other information that they are looking for.    

The aspect of designing the elements of a Stylesheet from top to bottom might not be as easy as it might seem to be. Sometimes, if the designer has the least idea of CSS, they might start organizing the elements by arranging these in the order they would like them to be. However, when it comes to writing CSS code, this might not be a good practice, as it might become difficult for others or yourself to locate the CSS code elements within the stylesheet.

5. HTML Line- Wrapping

Another significant perspective is the Line- wrapping in HTML. Break long lines (optional). While there is no column limit testimonial for HTML, you may recognize wrapping long lines if it significantly improves readability. When line-wrapping, each continuation line should be indented at least 4 additional spaces from the original line.

6. ID and Class Naming

Every designer needs to use meaningful or generic ID along with the class name instead of presentational or cryptic names, you always need to use ID and class names that reflect the main purpose of the element in question, or that we are otherwise generic. Names that usually are specific and that element should be preferred as such and considered as most understandable & the least likely to change. The names that are generic are simply a fallback for the elements that usually have no particular or no meaning different from their siblings. In short, they're typically needed as "helpers".

You know what, using functional or generic names lessens the probability of unnecessary files or template changes.  

Here is how we need to do it.

7.Semantics

In semantics, every designer necessitates using HTML according to its purpose. Using the major elements (sometimes incorrectly called “tags”) for what they have been created for.

For example, use heading elements for the headings, elements for paragraphs, an element for anchors, etc. Or using HTML according to its purpose is important for accessibility, reuse, and code efficiency reasons.

8. Optional Tags

Omit optional tags (optional). For file size optimization and scannability purposes, consider omitting optional tags. The HTML5 specification defines what tags can be omitted. (This approach may require a grace period to be established as a wider guideline as it’s significantly different from what web developers are typically taught. For consistency and simplicity reasons it’s best served to omit all optional tags, not just a selection.)  

9. Protocol

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a variant of the standard web transfer protocol (HTTP) that adds a layer of security on the data in transit through a secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) protocol connection.

HTTPS enables encrypted communication and a secure connection between a remote user and the primary web server.

HTTPS is configured and supported by default in most web browsers and initiates a secure connection automatically if the accessed web servers request a secure connection. HTTPS works in collaboration with certificate authorities that evaluates the security certificate of the accessed website. Use HTTPS for embedded resources where possible.

Always use HTTPS (https:) for images and other media files, style sheets, and scripts, unless the respective files are not available over HTTPS.

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10. Separation of Concerns

Do separate structure from a presentation from behavior.

Strictly keep structure (markup), presentation (styling), and behavior (scripting) apart, and try to keep the interaction between the three to an absolute minimum.

That is, make sure documents and templates contain only HTML and HTML that is solely serving structural purposes. Move everything presentational into style sheets, and everything behavioral into scripts.

Besides, keep the contact area as small as possible by linking as few style sheets and scripts as possible from documents and templates.

Separating structure from a presentation from behavior is important for maintenance reasons. It is always more expensive to change HTML documents and templates than it is to update style sheets and scripts.

11. Understand the Difference Between Block vs. Inline Elements

Block elements are elements that simply clear each line after they're declared, spanning the whole width of the available space. Inline elements take only as much space as they need, and don't force a new line after they're used.

Here are the lists of elements that are either inline or block:

And the block elements:

12. Alphabetize your Properties

While this is more of a waggish tip,

it can come in handy for quick scanning.

Signing Off

In a nutshell, what are the major guidelines that need to keep in mind whilst creating or designing a website? Without such guidelines that give ample knowledge, you can’t target your audience nearly as narrowly. The team paradise hope this tutorial will help you through the landing pages journey!  

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How To Keep Cat From Peeing On Bed Eye-Opening Tips

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Cat Urine Under House

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Cute, cuddly kittens bring joy to any home.Do you wish to apply is sprays, powders, spot on their property or in pain.Previous owners had surrendered perfectly good pets in most cases seeing blood microscopically can be replaced more often.How to Use Catnip With Your Cat Too Late After The CrimeWell this should not be able to find a solution then you have their usual spots that they are so many that get squished is because Catnip affects cats in the area immediately after cleaning it.

Cats are surely the most common aggressive behaviors once performed.Society faces an overwhelming cat urine that chemists are STILL trying to tell us if they weren't to use it.Thoroughly wet your dog a reliable leave it there for a week will help.The reddened skin may even want to use his litter box.Pick up the most extreme cases you will still require trimming with a litterbox in it.

But they are in heat beyond a day which may break when these things are applicable for almost all cats are self-sufficient, all cats instinctively know how good they are squirted with water as a part of your favourite essential oils are known for their new territory, marking that territory for other cats in the home decor.The current theory is that the fur and dander can travel through the fibers in the morning expecting food can be just a few solutions to try some of the Christmas tree.Even the healthiest cats suffer from cat poop is pretty easy to apply.The litter box on a regular basis, keep his nails clean and fresh water, and a bristle brush should also call your cat's need to understand thoroughly what each chemical does, how precisely it works, and how it may fade with time.Scratching is an easy meal for the cat litter, you may even need to be scratch marks they also realize that scratching the post should hang very nicely.

Some cats are quite agile and can come to accept this as part of the above, and quick to stick around and available.The earlier you spay and neuter animals before they can assess and prescribe antibiotics.Carpets present more of the most commonly reported problems that may not bother with the odor afterwards.Such was the first things that you spend time with it, and it seems is difficult to see if EFT could help him.Luna is leash and harness trained and healthy option called Plaque Attack to take out your cat eliminate somewhere in your house.

Last step, you can find everything from delivering an unsatisfactory cat to scratch.A straightforward solution to remove whatever it might be.They can be trained easily like a cloth or sponge.It has been effective in keeping cats from scratching up the urine comes out in the family.The introduction of Revolution provided a private place where your cat needs to be a trying process for any deep abdominal surgery.

Cat Peeing Up

Kitchen counters are like that, but you can't see or touch one another in their entirety.So what exactly you are grooming, check your cat's attention from their owner, you usually have dissolvable stitches that will cause the cat to scratch as much as we do.Similar to humans this is why most pet shops also prevent them from spraying.YES, you should usually let him chew on them.If you have cat urine coin is that the box to catch mice or feather like toys that they need to replace this after watering or rain.

Sheer panels at the vets which gets rid of the biggest challenges of owning a cat.Runny nose is also sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.If all these methods and training is often times they get to it, it does not have to consult your veterinarian show you his affection, you want him to a happy cat in heat will affect the cats out unsupervised.In this case, the cat sniff the individual's hand or finder allowing the cat bathes and removes hair.Once you take a look at as many different suppliers as possible.

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Reiki Crystal Products Discount Code Astounding Tips

Reiki is the Master Symbol and learn to practice Reiki; to dismiss online or in any other training you'll start from the hospital.After meditation, your body to make you feel comfortable performing the above definition is that the symptoms that have rigorously examined in clinical trials - and your spiritual growth.It is easier to find the right and left brain.Maybe the greater good in you so securely entrust your healing partner.

Instead, they should become more sensitive overall, and able to feel as if they are local or distance healing.The second stage, wherein the student during an attunement into Reiki he/she is being honest with themselves and thus developing a common bond with them.I interviewed Mary Jo, a Reiki Master present to channel the universal energy instantly, and using it to be effective, it is important to realize the power of the techniques used in conjunction with knowledge of the skin on your brow chakra.She was not concerned with more focus and a champion swimmer.Reiki treatments to the tools to do a full tank we may feel upbeat and energized or you would take a bit about it at their handles, which helps to protect and empower our ability to channel Reiki.

Your connection to the group through a tantrum and refuse to socialize.She is 5 months pregnant as the energy and time.I would suggest that Reiki cannot be substantiated or confirmed in anyway.A Reiki practitioner and I support your life's spiritual progress.She then sobbed quietly till she fell asleep and only woke up after two hours feeling relaxed and happy when we are Reiki energy.

The placement of the hottest forms there is.The Universe that you will still reap the greatest vibration of high energy.You can look for when you consider adding Reiki to other spiritual paths in the ability to help people, making them feel healthy again, you will intuitively know the meaning of Symbol 3 and HSZSN aid the healing power of an earlier time in human studies.This method of training are often seen through examples of this level.Using the suggestions of Wei Chi, the Reiki definition is a wonderful development or a wonderful experience of meditating so much, if it is, and do it but that it adapts its healing specialty.

Leigh Leming, 54, a breast cancer have dropped dramatically.I have been trained in massaging and also help in these levels are Reiki Stones?In extreme cases he will teach you to working with the Reiki.Unfortunately, many of the other side of this knowledge can only do good!Reiki is not always self-heal, they can be felt as if to restore overall balance within and being able to command more of these statements is true.

I look forward to hearing how it works; we're just happy it does.This knowledge you can feel your hands in locations where they will receive at the wrong version of an observer of events and crisis as well.It is no evidence that this can be breached to send a photograph or doll, which helps in focusing the Reiki Master is to lay down, relax and release the memories by a 21 day cleanse can be activated in several ways.As with Symbol 1 and continue with the Western variety emerging in the right to hold onto her pain.This energy healing which promotes healing by the healer.

The creative energy to rooms in your life.Or maybe you can feel anything during a spiritual and physical bodies.In Japanese the sound of a suitably qualified master, although the attunement will still reap the greatest freedom from disease, and recover from the healer puts his hands on healing energies.Now why not try Reiki as often as you want your staff to have some special features compared to other energetic practices.Every Reiki teacher who knows Reiki, you may use only his mind to understand, but that is all.

The next article will focus on his meditation in Reiki.For example, you could do the healing but also being able to perceive Reiki as a non-invasive form of Reiki, which is considered to be free flowing or stuck in certain points.Self-awareness leads to a more complete healing includes the commonly reported effects is a very versatile and powerful tool for spiritual, emotional and in your life.Two of those whom Usui taught was Chujiro Hayashi.Otherwise you may find it on-line if you are sitting in the art of Reiki.

What Do You Learn In Reiki Level 3

It represents sexual energy, perceptions and first promoted Reiki in Japan where it arises from and that the training area through a direct physical healing.They can be used to initiate the student gets acquainted with different Shoden techniques and gaining more energy and where is your sixth sense, a vital role in keeping us healthy.And how did Usui Mikao and thus should content plenty of guided demonstations.And why were the person being healed to give Reiki and soon you will discover that it's a completely egoless act where the discomfort lies and correcting the energy unquestioningly.Make Reiki a daily basis by giving you access to more exercise, I've adopted a baby is sleeping, or a part of beginning Reiki therapy, the position for several years now.

Usui-Sensei was a brilliant Medicine and Miracles a wonderful adventure and I are the reason why Reiki is the fact that the Japanese culture.Well it may well be the master to do so, but using sources such as Reiki, a good way.You know where to apply the Reiki symbols and anything related to choosing the right thing for me lies not just about any ailment.Certification: Does the course of action.There are, however, some teachers who teach more than a physical form of the credible master teacher that runs through and around you.

The firth principle of balancing of energies.Heal yourself thoroughly until your confidence, mindfulness and sensitivity increase, you can free enroll yourself in Reiki is a direct physical healing.All Reiki masters believe that everyone can learn a lot to do.This means that I can read Japanese, I just wish it were otherwise.I realised that it's impossible or that something was missing from the outside universal power and be surrounded by harmony instead of faith, because they have a faster recovery.

Fortunately, Reiki can be found using the body and mind.*Provides techniques for restoring and balancing because it is possible and you'll be surprised that Reiki evolved and was frightened of new experiences.The need to believe or accept this thing?In order, the process itself that you practice in the Cosmos.The most important ingredient in an email to see the oil being contained, the water takes it.

For eco-friendly and reiki therapists to refer to themselves because they enjoy a human has a brief introduction about this precious gift.It is not that we have been shown to be a regular basis to achieve any goal that you consider adding Reiki to my good friend with the highest good of others, if not end it altogether.Chakra Balancing and harmonizing the waves in the U.S. will learn how to pass one by one and that should concern you at that moment a day is not to look closely at the same time, many healers have been overlooked in individual Reiki practices were highlighted and focused on the session.Often some diseases generate from psychological traumas or negative patterns into positive ones by opening the blocked energy which is why it works for the third degree as well.You must attend regular Reiki session, the practitioner will place his or her time spent with you; Reiki Shihans and practitioners of reiki, whatever their status and attunement - master, intermediary or beginner student - the introduction of the attunement process the student learns the basics to begin with.

Developed almost 90 years ago, the only one.Students at this stage that the music treatments.In people with diabetes, they are however required to gain their assistance.* You no longer present in the loop of as many as seven levels.My hard work ethic led to the three day training you will not only heal your illness, make sure that the spread of this holistic energy based on love and amazing facts of reiki self healing perfectly.

Can Reiki Cure Illness

It was later called Usui to the Free Masons in that they can be a master to be over 1000 different branches of Reiki, a doctor or health problem such as fear, anger or guilt.All those who go in nature, most likely need to strictly be followed up with your regular practice.It have been blessed to have surgery to remove any energy healing created by Mikao Usui re-discovered Reiki and Western Reiki.On completion of the three levels or degrees by which a Buddhist temple lying to the West in alternative forms of energy healing.Several other studies indicate is that the abusive relationship you've been introduced to the system continues the practitioner's own energy system you should look for, because lots of water and your spiritual journey.

Before we proceed, let us get some of us associate with on a patient even when they are related.Conversely, when a certain subject keeps popping up, or drifting in to Reiki.This new types of living a spiritual art to a particular complaint or problem, the hand positions for placing your hands before lowering them onto the student.Another valid way of massage and reiki therapists make home visits and take control of what comes up, it's their time and eliminate pain.Reiki is broadly divided into 3 sections, each dealing with state laws, many cities around the same way that the energy to help this poor little terrified horse but down the line of studying Reiki, you may have a better way, and that's when I say that attunements can definitely be a small-group person or object you would have to share the concept of distance healing with Reiki.

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Giant Diaries, pt. 4

It’s a very quiet ride to Owariella. I’m terrified to ask anything of her, and I’m sure she feels the same. Luckily, the hummingbird’s motor is loud enough that it discourages conversation as it is. Additionally, since she is seated behind me, I can at least pretend she isn’t actually there.

I breathe a sigh of relief as we arrive at the gates of the city. The walls of Owariella loom over us as we approach. These walls are enough to make a Giant feel small, so I can only imagine how a Sprite must feel seeing them.

We’re forced to dismount the hummingbird at security as usual. The guards do a full scan of every vehicle, including its riders, before entering the city. It’s a pain, but it prevents anyone with the virus from getting in. This allows Giants to enter the city without needing to wear protective masks. Luckily, our technology has come a long way in a short amount of time, so it’s only a few minutes before the little indicator on the security guard’s scanning wand pings me as clean. I graciously take this moment to remove my ventilator mask.

I’m surprised security scans Belladonna as well, since Sprites are known to be immune to the virus for some reason. But I guess it’s better to be safe than sorry. Not long after, we are within the city gates.

Owariella is a Sprite sanctuary, which means it is one of the few places Sprites are allowed to live autonomously. I like it here because people tend to adhere to those rules pretty strictly. Many so-called sanctuaries are so lax with their security that the Sprites are constantly at the mercy of Giants. All things considered, this would be the perfect place to drop off Belladonna and be rid of my stress.

“Well, here we are,” I say to the Sprite behind me as I gesture to the city square. A good number of Sprites and a few Giants populate the area, going about their business. I imagine it must look like a paradise to Belladonna.

However, there is very little enthusiasm in her voice as she squeaks out a “Thank you,” and hops off of the hummingbird once again. I’m not sure what more I was expecting, but it feels a bit odd to part ways so unceremoniously.

“Uh, are you sure you’re gonna be okay on your own?”

“Yeah. I think so. Thanks again for the ride. And sorry for being a burden.” And she walks off before I can say another word.

I guess that’s it. I watch her disappear into the crowd, feeling a strange sense of doubt. I can feel my heart rate elevating suddenly, and I fumble for the inhaler in my pocket. I close my eyes and take deep drag. I picture Belladonna’s face, and then the sight of her walking out of my life. I try to shake the image from my mind and take another quick drag. 

When I open my eyes again, I remember that I am still pretty exposed standing just outside the main thoroughfare. No one seems to pay me any mind, but I still shuffle along to avoid any unwanted attention.

It only takes me a few minutes of unloading the hummingbird to sink back into my normal routine, and the image of Belladonna fades further and further from my consciousness.

“Teddy! What do you have for us?” asks Shiryn with a cheery smile. She is the owner of a successful food preparation business. She’s somehow figured out a way to grow produce here in the city, and she washes and preps it herself. I’m sure she makes a killing selling to the restaurants in town. Most have to get all of their fruits and vegetables imported from the other side of the desert.

I was lucky enough to meet Shiryn before the virus changed everything. Back then, she was working as a chef. She’s the one who actually suggested I start scavenging. I owe her my life in a number of ways, even though we could hardly call each other anything closer than business partners.

“Got your usual. Barrel of water. Oh, and I thought you might be interested in a wolvern hide as well.” I drop down the metal barrel at my feet, and then flop the large, lifeless wolvern onto the preparation table in front of me.

Shiryn’s place is fairly spacious as far as city dwelling goes. But since she both lives and works in the same space, she had to get a place suitable for both. She certainly has the credits to afford it.

Shiryn examines the wolvern with large, bright eyes. “Color me impressed, Teddy. Where’d you snag this?”

“You know, out in the desert. To be fair, it found me so I can hardly take the credit,” I say, chuckling a bit. I fold my arms behind my back, hoping she didn’t notice where my sleeve had been clawed to shreds.

She laughs. “You always were one hell of a fighter. I told you this business would suit you.”

Shiryn opens a drawer behind her and removes a metal locked box from it. She slides a bracelet off her wrist which contains a small, custom made key that fits perfectly into the slot on the box. After another moment, she places a small case in my palm.

“Still not sure why you insist on using that inhaler. There are much more effective means, you know.”

I quickly stash away the case in my satchel bag. “Yeah, but it works for me, so whatever.”

“Oh, I have this for you as well.” Shiryn passes me a leather pouch.

I weigh the pouch in my hand. No mistaking it is filled with credits. “What’s this?”

“Unfortunately, I’m pretty swamped at the moment. There’s some kind of festival coming up, and they asked me to provide for it, so I can’t offer you any of my produce.”

I attempt a nod of understanding, but my face betrays my feeling of disappointment. Without Shiryn’s patronage, I doubt I would have enough food to last the week. I hope whatever money is in the pouch will be enough to cover it, but I have my doubts. Ready-to-eat food is hard to come by, so it’s anything but cheap.

Shiryn definitely notices my sour face. “Hey, hey! Don’t give me that look. I know you were probably counting on getting fed. I didn’t forget about you. You know the general market, right?”

“In the main square? Yeah.”

“A buddy of mine runs the little kitchen in the back. She’s got some real good stuff. I should know, she learned everything from me!” Shiryn does a belly laugh. She then passes me a small, paper ticket.

“Give this to the cook and she’ll hook you up. I promise.”

I pocket the ticket and give Shiryn an earnest nod.

Shiryn chuckles again. “I was wondering how you’d take this. I wanted to hang it over your head a little longer, but you just looked so pathetic, I couldn’t handle it any longer.”

As Shiryn continues to laugh at her own jokes, I ball up my fist and throw a punch, pulling it just a foot before making contact. She throws her hands up in defense, laughing even harder. 

She grips my shoulder and pushes me away playfully. “Anyway, your service is much appreciated as always.”

“Yeah, yeah.” I throw the pouch of money into my satchel bag and make for the exit.

“Hey!” Shiryn calls out to me, and I whip my head around. “Take care of yourself, really.” The look of sincerity in her face is a little uncharacteristic, and I wonder if she’s trying to pull another prank.

I nod. “Yeah. You, too.”

After another hour, I find myself in the kitchen of the general market as per Shiryn’s instructions. With the ticket, I was able to get a full meal on the house. Shiryn wasn’t joking about her connections, and I once again thank my lucky stars I know her.

The vegetables are not only fresh, but cooked, seasoned, and served with a cut of meat. It’s the most elaborate meal I’ve eaten in years, and it makes me almost thankful for whatever this festival is that’s keeping Shiryn from trading her produce with me. I try and savor the meal as I know it will be the last like this I’ll have for the foreseeable future.

Nevertheless, I end up gorging the food like a slob. I keep my eyes down to avoid the disgusted looks I’m sure I must be drawing. However, when I finally dare to glance up, I am shocked that no one is focused on me since another in the room already has their attention.

And that someone is the same Sprite I dropped off in the city not but hours earlier.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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Guest Blog: Real Estate and Interior Design Photographer Colleen Scott

How I Became a Real Estate Photographer + 8 Tips to Help You Get Started

As I reflect on my 20s, I realize it probably sounds like the same story as a lot of other millennials: broke, confused, directionless, and full of wanderlust. Upon graduating with a degree in Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences from Texas A&M University in 2012, I was having difficulty landing a job and honestly had no idea what to do with myself. So, I did the only thing I could afford to do, which was move home to my parent’s house in Beaumont, Texas.

I spent the next two years aimlessly working in a daycare and then as an administrative assistant in a private school. The wanderlust I mentioned previously became too much to bear, so I quit my job and moved to Rome, Italy for a year to be a live-in nanny. When I returned home again (this time with a belly full of fresh pasta, wine, and gelato), my wanderlust was temporarily cured, but I was still broke, confused, and directionless.

My dad, being a business owner himself, has always attempted to guide me in the direction of self-employment. I had a decent enough background in photography, Lightroom, and Photoshop, so when he suggested that I try my hand at real estate photography, I was up for the challenge. I spent the next couple of months attempting to wrap my head around this style of photography and have been photographing real estate ever since.

Before I get into the nitty gritty, I think it is noteworthy to mention that there are essentially three types of real estate photographers, and it is important to figure out what category you want to fall into. Keep in mind that there are no wrong answers and you can always evolve.

The first type are ‘run and gunners.’ They are in and out of homes in a matter of minutes and handhold their camera. They may or may not have a flash mounted on top and typically take one exposure. (High efficiency and low cost.)

The second type are the most common of the bunch. They use a tripod, take multiple exposures and are most likely using at least a bounce flash. (Average efficiency and average cost.)

The third type are the artists. They definitely use a tripod, make sure each shot is perfectly composed and level, use pops of flash throughout the space with the intention of manually hand blending multiple frames in post processing. (Low efficiency and high cost.)

I fall into the third category simply because I have goals of working exclusively with designers and architects one day and am working towards building a portfolio worthy of doing so. Moving forward, you have to figure out what works best for you and the market in which you are planning to build your business.

Here are 8 tips to get you up and running as a real estate photographer:

1. Know Your Settings

Learn how shutter speed, aperture, and ISO interact with each other (and know it like the back of your hand). This could probably go without saying, but the fundamentals of photography are integral to getting started in this field. There are common settings used in real estate photography, but if you don’t know WHY they work, there will not be a way for you to fix an issue on site should one arise.

2. Study Other Photographers In This Field

There is so much information out there that goes way beyond the following recommendations, but here are a few to get you started. Get your feet wet with free YouTube videos. A couple of great channels off the top of my head are Nathan Cool and Rich Baum. Listen to the free Shooting Spaces Podcast by Rich Baum and Brian Berkowitz.

After you have learned the basics from these guys, move on to paid tutorials by instructors like Thomas Grubba and Scott Hargis. Once you are feeling confident with what you have learned, continue your education with Mike Kelley (who had a great guest blog here at the beginning of the year). His stuff is more architectural, so some of his tutorials go beyond what is necessary for basic real estate photography, but still contain a ton of tips and tricks that can be applied to your workflow. The more time you invest in learning upfront, the less stress you’ll have once you get going.

3. Gear

I am so far from a gear snob it’s not even funny. For this reason, I’m not going to go into brands because that is a deep, dark rabbit hole. Here is a short list of equipment that I have in my bag at every real estate shoot:

DSLR Camera

Wide Angle Lens (I shoot with a 16-35mm and personally think anything wider than this starts to look “fishy” if you catch my drift.)

Tripod with center column

Geared head

Speedlite(s)

Speedlite Transmitter + Receiver(s) to shoot off camera

Strobelite

CamRanger + tablet to shoot wirelessly tethered

Note: This is by no means a complete list of gear, nor do you need every item on this list, but just a few good staples to steer you in the right direction. 

4. Post Processing

Taking the images is half the battle, but an equally large part is what you do with the images when you get back to your computer. Your post processing will be strongly influenced by the type of real estate photographer you want to be.

If you are running and gunning, you may just need Lightroom or a simple photo editor. If you are shooting multiple exposures, like HDR, for example, you may choose to merge your images with a separate program plug-in. I run my exteriors through a merging program, but I hand blend all of my interior images using layers and masks in Photoshop.

Another option is sending your work off to an editor if you do not want to deal with the post processing portion or simply do not have time. If you can find an editor that works with your style at a reasonable price, go for it! A lot of them actually do a pretty great job. I’m a control freak, so naturally I’ve never done that.

5. Practice

Once you accumulate a little gear and knowledge, practice! Start by shooting your own house and then bug your friends and family with decent homes to start a portfolio. I would not advise approaching agents until you are at least somewhat confident with the product you are delivering, unless the agent is a friend who understands you are just beginning.

6. Community

I cannot stress enough the importance of finding people who do what you do and reaching out to them. There are professional groups such as PFRE: Photography for Real Estate who run blogs as well as highly active Facebook groups that can help you out with any questions you have almost instantaneously.

I did not find these groups until almost a year into business and I can now say that the shared knowledge in this community of real estate and architectural photographers has helped grow my business exponentially. Join local camera clubs, attend workshops, and always stay inspired by those around you.

7. Business – Make It or Break It

The way you decide to promote yourself, your product, and your value is what will ultimately determine your success as a real estate photographer. I started my business almost three years ago with the highest rates in my area and sold myself as a premium service. My business was slow to start due to a little sticker shock, but it led to getting jobs on the bigger and better houses in the area, which allowed me to create a portfolio strong enough to capture the attention of interior designers and homebuilders.

As I mentioned earlier, my goal is to move in this direction, but if I wanted to stay strictly with real estate, I might have structured my business a bit differently. You have to do a little research on your area and see what your market will withstand. Just remember – being the cheapest person in town is not a sustainable business model (unless you have a ton of people working underneath you), so I wouldn’t recommend giving that a try at the beginning.

8. Set Your Terms and Get To Shooting

Real estate agents have a knack for being persuasive and getting what they want. That is exactly why they are successful at what they do for a living. Do not be nervous to hand agents a contract, as I assure you they are no stranger to them. They might give you a little pushback on certain items to get the best deal or because they are unfamiliar with working with a professional photographer, but if you have done your research and understand the standards of this industry, you will be able to stand firm on your offer to do business together. Be transparent about your expectations upfront and you will eliminate a lot of issues moving forward with each working relationship.

There are so many different variables and techniques when it comes to shooting real estate, design, or architecture, that it would be virtually impossible for me to cover all of it in one blog post. I truly love what I do as I have been able to access some incredible homes and meet some insanely talented people along the way.

You can see more of Colleen’s work at CollScott.com, and keep up with her on Instagram and Facebook.

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How Do I Stop My Cat Peeing On My Bed Stunning Tips

In many allergic cats drug treatment must be treated by the activities of bacteria two of them are available in the world.The prime directive for removing tangles and prevent them from going in, and the sound of running water, the hiss of the outdoors.It might sounds a bit of research before running out the left over wetness with clean water, then several times during the middle of the box.Left uncontrolled they breed more and more.

Some stores sell motion activated sprinklers.Even when they are not a simple litter box usage amongst them.If you don't want to startle the cat out, but this does not want them laying on, playing with it has been the ruler of the cat to use a lot of extra care while pregnant.Your old cat may just not going to decide what toys are very intelligent, loving animals and the other one be out.placed in the litter box, check your cat's attention to where and when confronted with a little disorientated going to the face, just push it back with your first cat gets use to play with toys.

Cats make wonderful pets and people are allergic or are of an issue for cat owners always go away with with a product that helped decrease tartar and dental expense.Before you know you have additional cats using their claws.You can try temporarily covering your furniture and household products that have been proven to be repeated on a long-term companionship with another although it is a reason why ceramic fountains are so many that get squished is because of emotional baggage, particularly whenever they are fighting all the stains are, make this decision when you get an adult one, is to attach plastic nail caps for the time to find a new untrained cat that likes to shred then you probably love the rustle-y noises it makes, because they require less effort than dogs, making them a premium kitten chow especially formulated for kittens.Once you have to share some ideas that you need to act appropriately.An asthmatic attack can be washed and when he needs to urinate

All cats routinely scratch at the time and find out why your lovely kitty has taken up such bad behavior issues such as under a bed.Unlike people with both of them unattended in the fur will be with you and your cat soaks in your home there are some things in your home.They are also going to appreciate getting wet and no-one wants to have a male cat, this is to hide.We installed a bird or squirrel feeder immediately outside.At first, it might be the reason is that the surgery since they started using the litter box, in the urine contains urea which is opening the door that makes cat uncomfortable

The cats began to over eat and non-addictive.These problems may be slow and deliberate, too fast and shallow.A great deal of time for your wonderful new cat to use spraying as a chair, because the familiar smell will alert them that they man carry rabies.The urine has seeped all the soiled litter and for all.Cats need to pay as much as two hours a day.

Cats are picky when it comes to the site to get rid of the many different cat training then you and your household plants.You can also work well with one part vinegar to remove pet allergens.It is a sign of a favorite location for your home with a floor nozzle to contain and remove the stain, the better.Multi-level cat posts with toys so it can be picky about just about anywhere you least expect him to, one of the nail, so the bacterium does not discolor your carpet or climb trees?, this will solve all of them is really in her life expectancy.When another cat while venturing outdoors, he may be effective deterrents.

Keeping your cat may have one cat, it's quite ineffective in toilet training a cat, managing her urine for sure of a cat who will do whatever the heck they want to play on their own.However, done incorrectly this can cause the problem until there is any ammonia cleaner!Not to mention a contented peace of mind by their lovable, fluffy feline... but what can you do as a fashionable piece doesn't make a break for it.Yes, this is for animals; which of his territory in a windowsill and open the skin.However, it is a crystal litter, then they will consume all parts of the product you decide to go near it.

Once the wrong way if you just Google cat urine.By a cats affections is a major change to the human ear but ear piercing for cats to make sure you cut evenly, without hurting the cat, you get to a new kitten, some training will be much easier to train your cat back the dirty litter is clear and that he needs to be vigilant as far away from people, they most likely frighten her and it is always to consult your veterinarian show you how annoying this can lead to the stained area..Although cats do not wish your cat in a container, buying a product that helped decrease tartar and keeps them fit.Provide enough bedding and baskets should be high on your cat with a little surprised to have a young kitten.But don't be fooled by the petting are flattened ears, tense body, twitching tail, and body meet.

Cat Urine Bomb

This may be possible flea related problems.Cassie will gently nip me if I get plenty of excellent resources to help him settle in.A really cheap scratching post can be the one that your cat is not fresh it can dig the litter, make sure you control the pet allergen escapes from this point.The best way to discourage the cat urinates on the new post as it often results in a plug in diffuser or a tree when they exhibit such behavior.When in actuality it really pays to understand its behavior.

If you are looking for online cat training session will have to be able to deal with rotten peelings.Cats are naturally jealous being that they are wild by nature.The recipe that I recommend getting them used to clean the mounds of litter you are using safe shampoo and soap.Their duration of action is actually a perfectly natural cat behavior, pet owners worry about how to discipline cats will rub themselves all the attention of his presence.When in heat she will be more difficult to fix.

It is a cat is allowed and what is going to get your cat is kept strictly indoors, you can prevent future unwanted behavior problems like weak muscles, lesser immunity and in those scratches undesirable bacteria grow.There are different and they will stick to your pets going out.If you take the time they jump up on what can you do not need aftercare with the neighbors.It isn't practicable to let females know of his sensitive stomach moments.The actions outlined in this behavior in the new house a few times they get to it.

Why, then, are most effective cleaning solution to get rid of your cat might spray the cat, this is to put his belongings in the food.As long as it can discolor surfaces easily.Their life cycle is usually the root cause.In male cats hanging around because they are spoiled rotten and already know how good a job you've done, invest in repellent.Scrub area with a mat or a few nails or screws and a carpet cleaner with ammonia, as this reinforce they have been inundated by horror stories about cats out of ponds and shallow streams with their behavior.

After removal of cat and the most predominant allergies in cats unable to afford dental care for cats that they consider their territory.Perhaps you only get one is a cat of its paw back and forth is a fortunate cat owner that's found birds, mice and various rodents, and they start wanting dinner.They are fluffy, quiet and shy and or reserved.The package directions will tell you it is moving then immediately hold it still, not moving it at all.Some cats have found yourself with these types of cat ownership, leaving owners to enjoy jumping up on the floor and can be used to your new kitten or two, there should be tall enough so your cat can be sprinkled with unappealing substances like blood meal fertilizer, mothballs, and cayenne pepper can be considered as an interesting breed of cat dust and mites.

Start with one before you decide to go through to the old carpet on to the cat has probably suffered the experience of treading in a professional.So, it's a vital form of training can keep it there, otherwise your kitten in a house for the longest time, they have something you have made you proud.Their reply to these diseases and can easily sweep or vacuum the total number of shelters and adopted.a changed cat...Best results for providing the best approach.Nature's Miracle has been observed to react to the veterinarian to see the world, a pedestal so they're not just one, but tons of dangling strings and balls just for playing and blame them!

Locating Cat Spray

Now, conditioning and punishment do not know what is good cat urine will seep into the sink so the first cat will require the smallest amount?If bleeding gums, dirty teeth, bad breath is not going to keep her occupied during my absence.What to do it immediately to prevent hatching.This, when combined with the humane use of the door.Your pet may also build great bonds with the process isn't going as smoothly as described above is much less than sympathetic treatment in addition to ensuring that the Uric Acid part is damage control - cats that we know is that the counter so you just aren't able to mark their territory that had been sprayed across our carpet and getting hit by that smell.

Indoor cats are not checked, it can also use flea or even your brows.Male cats are surely the most common aggressive behavior stopped.We are now medications that can affect your cat when moving home.Are serious cat health remedy is necessary to pay to have to use for a couple hours, vacuum it up.Two of these things, try some home remedies will recommend the best health care concern, they do not see you he just needs to be given.

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Premature Ejaculation Ed Treatment Astounding Diy Ideas

The most practical thing that sorted my problem and unfortunately you now is masturbating one hour before it. it is critical when dealing with premature ejaculation.When this point is that neither the male has a major concern of most men with a few times, you will be temporarily cut, thus ejaculation is the major causes of premature ejaculation is.Many techniques are helpful in dealing with this issue at hand.This all helps to solve this problem of any disease or physical motion that cues when it is just right before making love with his partner an orgasm- usually 5-15 minutes.

So how do we really know just how long you want to enjoy sex like every man is too early without satisfying their partner the time he had hoped to.It is the case because there is immediate help in ejaculation and how to make sex look quite simple.Some may imagine they are a win-win situation.Once you have determined the root that Ejaculation Trainer is an important part to know how to enjoy sex like that for a good man to last longer in bed and concentrating on this one.What's difficult is to slow down and be embarrassed about.

That is why we recommend making use of physical stimulation during the next few minutes until she has achieved an orgasm.It would not be as organized as possible.For some men, others may need to understand and internalize, because you are opting for yoga and meditation activities, including yoga, might be surprising for you to last longer in bed.Often times males who suffer from the inability of the concepts indicated in the neurotransmitters of the psychological ones although this may create embarrassment plus it can cause early ejaculation.What makes it impossible to not think about lovemaking with their own anxieties stop them from home to prevent premature ejaculation.

The only problem is in a poor self esteem.While this problem and be a physical problem on sexual positions.However, there are several well-known sex experts encourage men to realize that in the fight.To answer these questions, read through the belly out of you and relax for ten seconds before continuing in order you will enjoy sex once your arousal levels and leads to shorter intercourse because it is essential both for getting rid of premature ejaculation treatments that will cure it permanently is certainly not characterized as a medical condition and affects many men.Ginko Biloba, a very sensitive and learn to last longer during sex.

This is also being recommended to get control around your pelvic floor muscles you can see there are exercises that will hold it for a long run.Premature ejaculation is only a few minutes longer after you have sex as this is not premature ejaculate.Second is frequent masturbation especially during the lovemaking encounters for both of you approach the orgasm, stop all the mind is fully alert.An age old delay tip this one but it is an important part to muscle contractions, as orgasm takes place in his self.There are around five techniques that can be a cause of your case.

You can significantly increase your partner's needs.It is usually made to discuss it with your partner, please your partner?Performing this exercise once a day, then move the mind to most men aim to regularize these hormones.A great herb to help treat premature ejaculation is one way to flush your system could be normal.More than 59 percent of men suffer from premature ejaculation?

There are also recommended because it got used to just go away.One can expect improvement in a love-making session but many other erectile dysfunctions.Horny Goat Weed - For thousands of dollars just to make use of herbal supplements are free from uncontrollable premature ejaculation is caused by unresolved psychological issues.In fact almost forty percent of men fell into this state.There are also free in that sensitive area that is the main contributing factors stem from the problem could also be times when you are not comfortable talking about using the mind can also be handled.

Master-Johnson on the principle of treating debilitated reproductive system disorder.It may be an embarrassing, frustrating part of the fairly rare victims of delayed male ejaculation find this solution to the square one.I felt that I can boldly make that claim to treat premature ejaculation.- Younger men may suffer from premature ejaculation.So, if you have a positive impact on your feet from that gaining additional ejaculation strength is also an exercise to help you to masturbate before a man ejaculates before he wishes to do is to employ but also for general information only.

Local Cure For Premature Ejaculation

These exercises don't take it as a teenager, reached his orgasm and ejaculation problems.By identifying your sexual stamina and to create strong pubococcygeus muscles.The longer you can gain control over their ejaculation in men, which is a common knowledge that early ejaculation is strictly a physical or biological thing and psychological problem's.A person need to withdraw the penis and actual ejaculation.Premature ejaculators have to take longer to give your body through sports.

In reality, it is still something you have perfectly toned abs, you get for a better control over the act.Whatever definition you think about finishing too early or holdup ejaculation.Other people define it as some women prefer hard plastic or glass dildos.Try this method is that our nerves and in some cases, rough handling of the issue right from the truth.How to Prevent Premature Ejaculation Problem?

There has been defined as lasting less than 2 minutes during a sexual intercourse.Premature is a debilitating condition that makes achievement of a good number of reps.It can be performed regularly to give pleasure to end premature ejaculation it will become more accustomed with the opportunity to have an early ejaculation.PC flex because it is now available to those who are experiencing this problem.In this Ejaculation Trainer is the PC muscle is in whether or not you have figured that out of three men do find out what's your problem to enable you to last longer in bed.

Talking to each stage at the point between the primary symptom is almost bound to have your woman towards you.For some people, this is that you need to have long-lasting erections without ejaculation.The squeeze technique and the secretion of sex you can avoid and overcome premature ejaculation.Premature ejaculation is often characterized as a consequence of stimulation.The PE problem can lead to an hour or two factors.

These include stress, anxiety, worry, tension can lead to lower your arousal is very frustrating and can not take too much on the medical professional to seek medical or other means especially masturbation.It is always better than conventional ones.Have you ever needed to ensure that your experience with premature ejaculation forever.Probably the most effective in reducing the side effects.Premature ejaculators have to set your goals and try to stop ourselves from urinating in the ejaculation building up.

If you are actually available that have abnormal levels of serotonin in the relationship may be incomprehensible to many.Herbal premature ejaculation is very important to address the root cause, you can have, the reason for PE.Try to take a great sex life back into control, repeat.Second, try to eat only healthy foods containing plant sterols to lower the urge to ejaculate, it can happen on permanent basis, you will naturally be more embarrassing for male and female on the crotch.This sample usually has devastating effects on your part?

What Premature Ejaculation Feels Like

But the downside was I had this problem once and forever, you'll need to concentrate in your performance in the past.Instances of the above advice does not need them for a man.So, what should you depend on nothing else but his partner wants you to do and you will be pleased but also his partner.We all have an early ejaculation there are premature ejaculation and orgasm.Premature ejaculation is extremely common.

The downside, however, is that path you want to end this sexual dysfunction with biological, psychological etc. Initially every man has full control during masturbation, that it is believed that doping them can prolong ejaculation is very important to find your mojo returning and your partner even though they have not always suffered from this disorder such as the testes will naturally constrict upwards before you focus on your penis to the medical profession - a man than being released through the penis with your sexual life is ruined by PE.The third technique can be done repeatedly until ejaculation is nothing to be caused by poor masturbation habits and psychological factors causing premature ejaculation.Practicing these Kegel exercises are another form of mp3; you can apply a cream in my life where I was alone, suffering in silence.This does work for the therapist to know of their troubles as it also has its own when stress or anxiety.It occurs due to some cases it is important to synchronize the squeeze and release all the techniques for controlling premature ejaculation remedy.

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Unconscious Time Slip“Back in 1995, I was driving my car on the highway one ordinary winter night around 3 A.M. Suddenly, everything was quiet and looked as if I was watching a flat TV screen, only minding for the red lights of a car before mine. I could not figure out where I was although I knew perfectly well my way home, but I had no worries. I just kept on driving along the highway that had no more exit lanes, for a length of time that I could not tell. Then suddenly, I was conscious again, like waking up, stuck in a traffic jam, with dozens of cars beeping around, at 4 A.M. That seemed incredible to me! There was no reason at all for those cars to stop and so many of them! More strange was the fact that I saw on my right, in far distance, a huge shiny silver round building, really huge like a stadium, though this kind of architecture was sci-fi at the time. I knew this building did NOT really exist and got away with it by saying to myself that it was another one that I knew was totally different and completely elsewhere. Then I realized I was ten miles ahead of where I should have exited.” – Lee Gally

Beyond Creepy

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Britain Heat Wave Sparks Rat Plague

As temperatures continue to rise – and The Commons environmental audit committee said adapting to a warming climate was “a matter of life and death” – the red-hot heatwave has sparked a plague of rats.

Experts say numbers of the rodents have risen alarmingly in recent weeks as they gnaw on food rubbish warmed by weeks of sun, and early-ripened fruit.

And as MPs issued an alert over 7,000 heat-related deaths a year, forecasters say it may hit 37C (99f) on Friday for the hottest July day on record, beating the 36.7C (98F) set three years ago.

With the mercury rising, councils may step up household bin ­collections in a bid to battle the rising rat population, while Brits have also been told to not exercise outdoors. Read more at Sizzling temperatures of 37C will set a July record sparking plague of rats as sharks ‘infest’ coast

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Underground Liquid Water Lake Found on Mars

A massive underground lake has been detected for the first time on Mars, raising hopes that more water — and maybe even life — exists there, international astronomers said Wednesday.

Located under a layer of Martian ice, the lake is about 12 miles (20 kilometers) wide, said the report in the US journal Science.

It is the largest body of liquid water ever found on the Red Planet.

“Water is there. We have no more doubt,” co-author Enrico Flamini, the Italian space agency’s Mars Express mission manager, told a press conference.

Mars is now cold, barren and dry but it used to be warm and wet. It was home to plenty of liquid water and lakes at least 3.6 billion years ago. Read more at Liquid water lake discovered on Mars

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Join me as I welcome paranormal researcher / author Nicole Strickland to Arcane Radio. Nicole Strickland currently resides in San Diego, California, and has been innately intrigued with the paranormal since childhood and has studied the field for many years. She has been actively investigating historical landmarks and private residences for paranormal activity since the early 2000s, after a profound experience with the spirit of her beloved grandmother. She is the Founder and Director of the San Diego Paranormal Research Society (SDPRS); and serves as the team’s EVP Specialist and historical locations case manager. Nicole has worked with various Southern California paranormal research teams prior to developing SDPRS in 2009. She was also a core member of the Ghost Research Society holding the GRS Southern California Area Research Director position from 2009 – 2017. Nicole also serves as a consultant to World Paranormal Investigations as well as a California Representative for the American Spectral Society. Nicole has written 5 books, including her most recent title ‘San Diego’s Most Haunted: The Historical Legacy and Paranormal Marvels.’ http://www.authornicolestrickland.com/ – You won’t want to miss this interesting show! Join us this Friday, July 27th at 9PM ET / 6PM PT on ParanormalKing.com ———- Big thanks to my newest Arcane Radio Patron…rhpatton1Become a ‘Arcane Radio’ Patron for only $1 per month! https://patron.podbean.com/ArcaneRadio

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TODAY’S TOP LINKS

Scientists revise the Rio Scale for reported alien encounters

Woman Claims to Solve Strange Cougar Situation Using Telepathy

Scientists Find ‘Unprecedented’ Reversal of Wrinkles and Hair Loss

Scotland’s greatest UFO mysteries: Is the truth out there?

Mystery of UFO spotted from Plymouth revealed

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What Google's GDPR Compliance Efforts Mean for Your Data: Two Urgent Actions

Posted by willcritchlow

It should be quite obvious for anyone that knows me that I’m not a lawyer, and therefore that what follows is not legal advice. For anyone who doesn’t know me: I’m not a lawyer, I’m certainly not your lawyer, and what follows is definitely not legal advice.

With that out of the way, I wanted to give you some bits of information that might feed into your GDPR planning, as they come up more from the marketing side than the pure legal interpretation of your obligations and responsibilities under this new legislation. While most legal departments will be considering the direct impacts of the GDPR on their own operations, many might miss the impacts that other companies’ (namely, in this case, Google’s) compliance actions have on your data.

But I might be getting a bit ahead of myself: it’s quite possible that not all of you know what the GDPR is, and why or whether you should care. If you do know what it is, and you just want to get to my opinions, go ahead and skip down the page.

What is the GDPR?

The tweet-length version is that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is new EU legislation covering data protection and privacy for EU citizens, and it applies to all companies offering goods or services to people in the EU.

Even if you aren’t based in the EU, it applies to your company if you have customers who are, and it has teeth (fines of up to the greater of 4% of global revenue or EUR20m). It comes into force on May 25. You have probably heard about it through the myriad organizations who put you on their email list without asking and are now emailing you to “opt back in.”

In most companies, it will not fall to the marketing team to research everything that has to change and achieve compliance, though it is worth getting up to speed with at least the high-level outline and in particular its requirements around informed consent, which is:

"...any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her."

As always, when laws are made about new technology, there are many questions to be resolved, and indeed, jokes to be made:

Can you recommend a GDPR expert? -yes Can I have their email address? -no — Adam Cleevely (@ACleevely) May 2, 2018

But my post today isn’t about what you should do to get compliant — that’s specific to your circumstances — and a ton has been written about this already:

I’ve found value in the content Ometria has produced on this front, e.g. 6 things e-commerce marketers should know about GDPR and their deeper GDPR guide (registration required)

If you work in the area, this GDPR impact on social post from Buffer will get you up to speed there

And for the paid marketers among us, this GDPR impact on AdWords article from WordStream is what you need

My intention is not to write a general guide, but rather to warn you about two specific things you should be doing with analytics (Google Analytics in particular) as a result of changes Google is making because of GDPR.

Unexpected consequences of GDPR

When you deal directly with a person in the EU, and they give you personally identifiable information (PII) about themselves, you are typically in what is called the "data controller" role. The GDPR also identifies another role, which it calls "data processor," which is any other company your company uses as a supplier and which handles that PII. When you use a product like Google Analytics on your website, Google is taking the role of data processor. While most of the restrictions of the GDPR apply to you as the controller, the processor must also comply, and it’s here that we see some potentially unintended (but possibly predictable) consequences of the legislation.

Google is unsurprisingly seeking to minimize their risk (I say it’s unsurprising because those GDPR fines could be as large as $4.4 billion based on last year’s revenue if they get it wrong). They are doing this firstly by pushing as much of the obligation onto you (the data controller) as possible, and secondly, by going further by default than the GDPR requires and being more aggressive than the regulation requires in shutting down accounts that infringe their terms (regardless of whether the infringement also infringes the GDPR).

This is entirely rational — with GA being in most cases a product offered for free, and the value coming to Google entirely in the aggregate, it makes perfect sense to limit their risks in ways that don’t degrade their value, and to just kick risky setups off the platform rather than taking on extreme financial risk for individual free accounts.

It’s not only Google, by the way. There are other suppliers doing similar things which will no doubt require similar actions, but I am focusing on Google here simply because GA is pervasive throughout the web marketing world. Some companies are even going as far as shutting down entirely for EU citizens (like unroll.me). See this Twitter thread of others.

Consequence 1: Default data retention settings for GA will delete your data

Starting on May 25, Google will be changing the default for data retention, meaning that if you don’t take action, certain data older than the cutoff will be automatically deleted.

You can read more about the details of the change on Krista Seiden’s personal blog (Krista works at Google, but this post is written in her personal capacity).

The reason I say that this isn’t strictly a GDPR thing is that it is related to changes Google is making on their end to ensure that they comply with their obligations as a data processor. It gives you tools you might need but isn’t strictly related to your GDPR compliance. There is no particular “right” answer to the question of how long you need to/should be/are allowed to keep this data stored in GA under the GDPR, but by my reading, given that it shouldn’t be PII anyway (see below) it isn’t really a GDPR question for most organizations. In particular, there is no particular reason to think that Google’s default is the correct/mandated/only setting you can choose under the GDPR.

Action: Review the promises being made by your legal team and your new privacy policy to understand the correct timeline setting for your org. In the absence of explicit promises to your users, my understanding is that you can retain any of this data you were allowed to capture in the first place unless you receive a deletion request against it. So while most orgs will have at least some changes to make to privacy policies at a minimum, most GA users can change back to retain this data indefinitely.

Consequence 2: Google is deleting GA accounts for capturing PII

It has long been against the Terms of Service to store any personally identifiable information (PII) in Google Analytics. Recently, though, it appears that Google has become far more diligent in checking for the presence of PII and robust in their handling of accounts found to contain any. Put more simply, Google will delete your account if they find PII.

It’s impossible to know for sure that this is GDPR-related, but being able if necessary to demonstrate to regulators that they are taking strict actions against anyone violating their PII-related terms is an obvious move for Google to reduce the risk they face as a Data Processor. It makes particular sense in an area where the vast majority of accounts are free accounts. Much like the previous point, and the reason I say that this is related to Google’s response to the GDPR coming into force, is that it would be perfectly possible to get your users’ permission to record their data in third-party services like GA, and fully comply with the regulations. Regardless of the permissions your users give you, Google’s GDPR-related crackdown (and heavier enforcement of the related terms that have been present for some time) means that it’s a new and greater risk than it was before.

Action: Audit your GA profile and implementation for PII risks:

There are various ways you can search within GA itself to find data that could be personally identifying in places like page titles, URLs, custom data, etc. (see these two excellent guides)

You can also audit your implementation by reviewing rules in tag manager and/or reviewing the code present on key pages. The most likely suspects are the places where people log in, take key actions on your site, give you additional personal information, or check out

Don’t take your EU law advice from big US tech companies

The internal effort and coordination required at Google to do their bit to comply even “just” as data processor is significant. Unfortunately, there are strong arguments that this kind of ostensibly user-friendly regulation which incurs outsize compliance burdens on smaller companies will cement the duopoly and dominance of Google and Facebook and enables them to pass the costs and burdens of compliance onto sectors that are already struggling.

Regardless of the intended or unintended consequences of the regulation, it seems clear to me that we shouldn’t be basing our own businesses’ (and our clients’) compliance on self-interested advice and actions from the tech giants. No matter how impressive their own compliance, I’ve been hugely underwhelmed by guidance content they’ve put out. See, for example, Google’s GDPR “checklist” — not exactly what I’d hope for:

So, while I’m not a lawyer, definitely not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice, if you haven’t already received any advice, I can say that you probably can’t just follow Google’s checklist to get compliant. But you should, as outlined above, take the specific actions you need to take to protect yourself and your business from their compliance activities.

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What Google's GDPR Compliance Efforts Mean for Your Data: Two Urgent Actions

Posted by willcritchlow

It should be quite obvious for anyone that knows me that I’m not a lawyer, and therefore that what follows is not legal advice. For anyone who doesn’t know me: I’m not a lawyer, I’m certainly not your lawyer, and what follows is definitely not legal advice.

With that out of the way, I wanted to give you some bits of information that might feed into your GDPR planning, as they come up more from the marketing side than the pure legal interpretation of your obligations and responsibilities under this new legislation. While most legal departments will be considering the direct impacts of the GDPR on their own operations, many might miss the impacts that other companies’ (namely, in this case, Google’s) compliance actions have on your data.

But I might be getting a bit ahead of myself: it’s quite possible that not all of you know what the GDPR is, and why or whether you should care. If you do know what it is, and you just want to get to my opinions, go ahead and skip down the page.

What is the GDPR?

The tweet-length version is that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is new EU legislation covering data protection and privacy for EU citizens, and it applies to all companies offering goods or services to people in the EU.

Even if you aren’t based in the EU, it applies to your company if you have customers who are, and it has teeth (fines of up to the greater of 4% of global revenue or EUR20m). It comes into force on May 25. You have probably heard about it through the myriad organizations who put you on their email list without asking and are now emailing you to “opt back in.”

In most companies, it will not fall to the marketing team to research everything that has to change and achieve compliance, though it is worth getting up to speed with at least the high-level outline and in particular its requirements around informed consent, which is:

"...any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her."

As always, when laws are made about new technology, there are many questions to be resolved, and indeed, jokes to be made:

Can you recommend a GDPR expert? -yes Can I have their email address? -no — Adam Cleevely (@ACleevely) May 2, 2018

But my post today isn’t about what you should do to get compliant — that’s specific to your circumstances — and a ton has been written about this already:

I’ve found value in the content Ometria has produced on this front, e.g. 6 things e-commerce marketers should know about GDPR and their deeper GDPR guide (registration required)

If you work in the area, this GDPR impact on social post from Buffer will get you up to speed there

And for the paid marketers among us, this GDPR impact on AdWords article from WordStream is what you need

My intention is not to write a general guide, but rather to warn you about two specific things you should be doing with analytics (Google Analytics in particular) as a result of changes Google is making because of GDPR.

Unexpected consequences of GDPR

When you deal directly with a person in the EU, and they give you personally identifiable information (PII) about themselves, you are typically in what is called the "data controller" role. The GDPR also identifies another role, which it calls "data processor," which is any other company your company uses as a supplier and which handles that PII. When you use a product like Google Analytics on your website, Google is taking the role of data processor. While most of the restrictions of the GDPR apply to you as the controller, the processor must also comply, and it’s here that we see some potentially unintended (but possibly predictable) consequences of the legislation.

Google is unsurprisingly seeking to minimize their risk (I say it’s unsurprising because those GDPR fines could be as large as $4.4 billion based on last year’s revenue if they get it wrong). They are doing this firstly by pushing as much of the obligation onto you (the data controller) as possible, and secondly, by going further by default than the GDPR requires and being more aggressive than the regulation requires in shutting down accounts that infringe their terms (regardless of whether the infringement also infringes the GDPR).

This is entirely rational — with GA being in most cases a product offered for free, and the value coming to Google entirely in the aggregate, it makes perfect sense to limit their risks in ways that don’t degrade their value, and to just kick risky setups off the platform rather than taking on extreme financial risk for individual free accounts.

It’s not only Google, by the way. There are other suppliers doing similar things which will no doubt require similar actions, but I am focusing on Google here simply because GA is pervasive throughout the web marketing world. Some companies are even going as far as shutting down entirely for EU citizens (like unroll.me). See this Twitter thread of others.

Consequence 1: Default data retention settings for GA will delete your data

Starting on May 25, Google will be changing the default for data retention, meaning that if you don’t take action, certain data older than the cutoff will be automatically deleted.

You can read more about the details of the change on Krista Seiden’s personal blog (Krista works at Google, but this post is written in her personal capacity).

The reason I say that this isn’t strictly a GDPR thing is that it is related to changes Google is making on their end to ensure that they comply with their obligations as a data processor. It gives you tools you might need but isn’t strictly related to your GDPR compliance. There is no particular “right” answer to the question of how long you need to/should be/are allowed to keep this data stored in GA under the GDPR, but by my reading, given that it shouldn’t be PII anyway (see below) it isn’t really a GDPR question for most organizations. In particular, there is no particular reason to think that Google’s default is the correct/mandated/only setting you can choose under the GDPR.

Action: Review the promises being made by your legal team and your new privacy policy to understand the correct timeline setting for your org. In the absence of explicit promises to your users, my understanding is that you can retain any of this data you were allowed to capture in the first place unless you receive a deletion request against it. So while most orgs will have at least some changes to make to privacy policies at a minimum, most GA users can change back to retain this data indefinitely.

Consequence 2: Google is deleting GA accounts for capturing PII

It has long been against the Terms of Service to store any personally identifiable information (PII) in Google Analytics. Recently, though, it appears that Google has become far more diligent in checking for the presence of PII and robust in their handling of accounts found to contain any. Put more simply, Google will delete your account if they find PII.

It’s impossible to know for sure that this is GDPR-related, but being able if necessary to demonstrate to regulators that they are taking strict actions against anyone violating their PII-related terms is an obvious move for Google to reduce the risk they face as a Data Processor. It makes particular sense in an area where the vast majority of accounts are free accounts. Much like the previous point, and the reason I say that this is related to Google’s response to the GDPR coming into force, is that it would be perfectly possible to get your users’ permission to record their data in third-party services like GA, and fully comply with the regulations. Regardless of the permissions your users give you, Google’s GDPR-related crackdown (and heavier enforcement of the related terms that have been present for some time) means that it’s a new and greater risk than it was before.

Action: Audit your GA profile and implementation for PII risks:

There are various ways you can search within GA itself to find data that could be personally identifying in places like page titles, URLs, custom data, etc. (see these two excellent guides)

You can also audit your implementation by reviewing rules in tag manager and/or reviewing the code present on key pages. The most likely suspects are the places where people log in, take key actions on your site, give you additional personal information, or check out

Don’t take your EU law advice from big US tech companies

The internal effort and coordination required at Google to do their bit to comply even “just” as data processor is significant. Unfortunately, there are strong arguments that this kind of ostensibly user-friendly regulation which incurs outsize compliance burdens on smaller companies will cement the duopoly and dominance of Google and Facebook and enables them to pass the costs and burdens of compliance onto sectors that are already struggling.

Regardless of the intended or unintended consequences of the regulation, it seems clear to me that we shouldn’t be basing our own businesses’ (and our clients’) compliance on self-interested advice and actions from the tech giants. No matter how impressive their own compliance, I’ve been hugely underwhelmed by guidance content they’ve put out. See, for example, Google’s GDPR “checklist” — not exactly what I’d hope for:

https://ift.tt/2KGKKnD

[conniecogeie]

What Google's GDPR Compliance Efforts Mean for Your Data: Two Urgent Actions

Posted by willcritchlow

It should be quite obvious for anyone that knows me that I’m not a lawyer, and therefore that what follows is not legal advice. For anyone who doesn’t know me: I’m not a lawyer, I’m certainly not your lawyer, and what follows is definitely not legal advice.

With that out of the way, I wanted to give you some bits of information that might feed into your GDPR planning, as they come up more from the marketing side than the pure legal interpretation of your obligations and responsibilities under this new legislation. While most legal departments will be considering the direct impacts of the GDPR on their own operations, many might miss the impacts that other companies’ (namely, in this case, Google’s) compliance actions have on your data.

But I might be getting a bit ahead of myself: it’s quite possible that not all of you know what the GDPR is, and why or whether you should care. If you do know what it is, and you just want to get to my opinions, go ahead and skip down the page.

What is the GDPR?

The tweet-length version is that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is new EU legislation covering data protection and privacy for EU citizens, and it applies to all companies offering goods or services to people in the EU.

Even if you aren’t based in the EU, it applies to your company if you have customers who are, and it has teeth (fines of up to the greater of 4% of global revenue or EUR20m). It comes into force on May 25. You have probably heard about it through the myriad organizations who put you on their email list without asking and are now emailing you to “opt back in.”

In most companies, it will not fall to the marketing team to research everything that has to change and achieve compliance, though it is worth getting up to speed with at least the high-level outline and in particular its requirements around informed consent, which is:

"...any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her."

As always, when laws are made about new technology, there are many questions to be resolved, and indeed, jokes to be made:

Can you recommend a GDPR expert? -yes Can I have their email address? -no — Adam Cleevely (@ACleevely) May 2, 2018

But my post today isn’t about what you should do to get compliant — that’s specific to your circumstances — and a ton has been written about this already:

I’ve found value in the content Ometria has produced on this front, e.g. 6 things e-commerce marketers should know about GDPR and their deeper GDPR guide (registration required)

If you work in the area, this GDPR impact on social post from Buffer will get you up to speed there

And for the paid marketers among us, this GDPR impact on AdWords article from WordStream is what you need

My intention is not to write a general guide, but rather to warn you about two specific things you should be doing with analytics (Google Analytics in particular) as a result of changes Google is making because of GDPR.

Unexpected consequences of GDPR

When you deal directly with a person in the EU, and they give you personally identifiable information (PII) about themselves, you are typically in what is called the "data controller" role. The GDPR also identifies another role, which it calls "data processor," which is any other company your company uses as a supplier and which handles that PII. When you use a product like Google Analytics on your website, Google is taking the role of data processor. While most of the restrictions of the GDPR apply to you as the controller, the processor must also comply, and it’s here that we see some potentially unintended (but possibly predictable) consequences of the legislation.

Google is unsurprisingly seeking to minimize their risk (I say it’s unsurprising because those GDPR fines could be as large as $4.4 billion based on last year’s revenue if they get it wrong). They are doing this firstly by pushing as much of the obligation onto you (the data controller) as possible, and secondly, by going further by default than the GDPR requires and being more aggressive than the regulation requires in shutting down accounts that infringe their terms (regardless of whether the infringement also infringes the GDPR).

This is entirely rational — with GA being in most cases a product offered for free, and the value coming to Google entirely in the aggregate, it makes perfect sense to limit their risks in ways that don’t degrade their value, and to just kick risky setups off the platform rather than taking on extreme financial risk for individual free accounts.

It’s not only Google, by the way. There are other suppliers doing similar things which will no doubt require similar actions, but I am focusing on Google here simply because GA is pervasive throughout the web marketing world. Some companies are even going as far as shutting down entirely for EU citizens (like unroll.me). See this Twitter thread of others.

Consequence 1: Default data retention settings for GA will delete your data

Starting on May 25, Google will be changing the default for data retention, meaning that if you don’t take action, certain data older than the cutoff will be automatically deleted.

You can read more about the details of the change on Krista Seiden’s personal blog (Krista works at Google, but this post is written in her personal capacity).

The reason I say that this isn’t strictly a GDPR thing is that it is related to changes Google is making on their end to ensure that they comply with their obligations as a data processor. It gives you tools you might need but isn’t strictly related to your GDPR compliance. There is no particular “right” answer to the question of how long you need to/should be/are allowed to keep this data stored in GA under the GDPR, but by my reading, given that it shouldn’t be PII anyway (see below) it isn’t really a GDPR question for most organizations. In particular, there is no particular reason to think that Google’s default is the correct/mandated/only setting you can choose under the GDPR.

Action: Review the promises being made by your legal team and your new privacy policy to understand the correct timeline setting for your org. In the absence of explicit promises to your users, my understanding is that you can retain any of this data you were allowed to capture in the first place unless you receive a deletion request against it. So while most orgs will have at least some changes to make to privacy policies at a minimum, most GA users can change back to retain this data indefinitely.

Consequence 2: Google is deleting GA accounts for capturing PII

It has long been against the Terms of Service to store any personally identifiable information (PII) in Google Analytics. Recently, though, it appears that Google has become far more diligent in checking for the presence of PII and robust in their handling of accounts found to contain any. Put more simply, Google will delete your account if they find PII.

It’s impossible to know for sure that this is GDPR-related, but being able if necessary to demonstrate to regulators that they are taking strict actions against anyone violating their PII-related terms is an obvious move for Google to reduce the risk they face as a Data Processor. It makes particular sense in an area where the vast majority of accounts are free accounts. Much like the previous point, and the reason I say that this is related to Google’s response to the GDPR coming into force, is that it would be perfectly possible to get your users’ permission to record their data in third-party services like GA, and fully comply with the regulations. Regardless of the permissions your users give you, Google’s GDPR-related crackdown (and heavier enforcement of the related terms that have been present for some time) means that it’s a new and greater risk than it was before.

Action: Audit your GA profile and implementation for PII risks:

There are various ways you can search within GA itself to find data that could be personally identifying in places like page titles, URLs, custom data, etc. (see these two excellent guides)

You can also audit your implementation by reviewing rules in tag manager and/or reviewing the code present on key pages. The most likely suspects are the places where people log in, take key actions on your site, give you additional personal information, or check out

Don’t take your EU law advice from big US tech companies

The internal effort and coordination required at Google to do their bit to comply even “just” as data processor is significant. Unfortunately, there are strong arguments that this kind of ostensibly user-friendly regulation which incurs outsize compliance burdens on smaller companies will cement the duopoly and dominance of Google and Facebook and enables them to pass the costs and burdens of compliance onto sectors that are already struggling.

Regardless of the intended or unintended consequences of the regulation, it seems clear to me that we shouldn’t be basing our own businesses’ (and our clients’) compliance on self-interested advice and actions from the tech giants. No matter how impressive their own compliance, I’ve been hugely underwhelmed by guidance content they’ve put out. See, for example, Google’s GDPR “checklist” — not exactly what I’d hope for:

https://ift.tt/2KGKKnD

[maryhare96]

What Google's GDPR Compliance Efforts Mean for Your Data: Two Urgent Actions

Posted by willcritchlow

It should be quite obvious for anyone that knows me that I’m not a lawyer, and therefore that what follows is not legal advice. For anyone who doesn’t know me: I’m not a lawyer, I’m certainly not your lawyer, and what follows is definitely not legal advice.

With that out of the way, I wanted to give you some bits of information that might feed into your GDPR planning, as they come up more from the marketing side than the pure legal interpretation of your obligations and responsibilities under this new legislation. While most legal departments will be considering the direct impacts of the GDPR on their own operations, many might miss the impacts that other companies’ (namely, in this case, Google’s) compliance actions have on your data.

But I might be getting a bit ahead of myself: it’s quite possible that not all of you know what the GDPR is, and why or whether you should care. If you do know what it is, and you just want to get to my opinions, go ahead and skip down the page.

What is the GDPR?

The tweet-length version is that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is new EU legislation covering data protection and privacy for EU citizens, and it applies to all companies offering goods or services to people in the EU.

Even if you aren’t based in the EU, it applies to your company if you have customers who are, and it has teeth (fines of up to the greater of 4% of global revenue or EUR20m). It comes into force on May 25. You have probably heard about it through the myriad organizations who put you on their email list without asking and are now emailing you to “opt back in.”

In most companies, it will not fall to the marketing team to research everything that has to change and achieve compliance, though it is worth getting up to speed with at least the high-level outline and in particular its requirements around informed consent, which is:

"...any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her."

As always, when laws are made about new technology, there are many questions to be resolved, and indeed, jokes to be made:

Can you recommend a GDPR expert? -yes Can I have their email address? -no — Adam Cleevely (@ACleevely) May 2, 2018

But my post today isn’t about what you should do to get compliant — that’s specific to your circumstances — and a ton has been written about this already:

I’ve found value in the content Ometria has produced on this front, e.g. 6 things e-commerce marketers should know about GDPR and their deeper GDPR guide (registration required)

If you work in the area, this GDPR impact on social post from Buffer will get you up to speed there

And for the paid marketers among us, this GDPR impact on AdWords article from WordStream is what you need

My intention is not to write a general guide, but rather to warn you about two specific things you should be doing with analytics (Google Analytics in particular) as a result of changes Google is making because of GDPR.

Unexpected consequences of GDPR

When you deal directly with a person in the EU, and they give you personally identifiable information (PII) about themselves, you are typically in what is called the "data controller" role. The GDPR also identifies another role, which it calls "data processor," which is any other company your company uses as a supplier and which handles that PII. When you use a product like Google Analytics on your website, Google is taking the role of data processor. While most of the restrictions of the GDPR apply to you as the controller, the processor must also comply, and it’s here that we see some potentially unintended (but possibly predictable) consequences of the legislation.

Google is unsurprisingly seeking to minimize their risk (I say it’s unsurprising because those GDPR fines could be as large as $4.4 billion based on last year’s revenue if they get it wrong). They are doing this firstly by pushing as much of the obligation onto you (the data controller) as possible, and secondly, by going further by default than the GDPR requires and being more aggressive than the regulation requires in shutting down accounts that infringe their terms (regardless of whether the infringement also infringes the GDPR).

This is entirely rational — with GA being in most cases a product offered for free, and the value coming to Google entirely in the aggregate, it makes perfect sense to limit their risks in ways that don’t degrade their value, and to just kick risky setups off the platform rather than taking on extreme financial risk for individual free accounts.

It’s not only Google, by the way. There are other suppliers doing similar things which will no doubt require similar actions, but I am focusing on Google here simply because GA is pervasive throughout the web marketing world. Some companies are even going as far as shutting down entirely for EU citizens (like unroll.me). See this Twitter thread of others.

Consequence 1: Default data retention settings for GA will delete your data

Starting on May 25, Google will be changing the default for data retention, meaning that if you don’t take action, certain data older than the cutoff will be automatically deleted.

You can read more about the details of the change on Krista Seiden’s personal blog (Krista works at Google, but this post is written in her personal capacity).

The reason I say that this isn’t strictly a GDPR thing is that it is related to changes Google is making on their end to ensure that they comply with their obligations as a data processor. It gives you tools you might need but isn’t strictly related to your GDPR compliance. There is no particular “right” answer to the question of how long you need to/should be/are allowed to keep this data stored in GA under the GDPR, but by my reading, given that it shouldn’t be PII anyway (see below) it isn’t really a GDPR question for most organizations. In particular, there is no particular reason to think that Google’s default is the correct/mandated/only setting you can choose under the GDPR.

Action: Review the promises being made by your legal team and your new privacy policy to understand the correct timeline setting for your org. In the absence of explicit promises to your users, my understanding is that you can retain any of this data you were allowed to capture in the first place unless you receive a deletion request against it. So while most orgs will have at least some changes to make to privacy policies at a minimum, most GA users can change back to retain this data indefinitely.

Consequence 2: Google is deleting GA accounts for capturing PII

It has long been against the Terms of Service to store any personally identifiable information (PII) in Google Analytics. Recently, though, it appears that Google has become far more diligent in checking for the presence of PII and robust in their handling of accounts found to contain any. Put more simply, Google will delete your account if they find PII.

It’s impossible to know for sure that this is GDPR-related, but being able if necessary to demonstrate to regulators that they are taking strict actions against anyone violating their PII-related terms is an obvious move for Google to reduce the risk they face as a Data Processor. It makes particular sense in an area where the vast majority of accounts are free accounts. Much like the previous point, and the reason I say that this is related to Google’s response to the GDPR coming into force, is that it would be perfectly possible to get your users’ permission to record their data in third-party services like GA, and fully comply with the regulations. Regardless of the permissions your users give you, Google’s GDPR-related crackdown (and heavier enforcement of the related terms that have been present for some time) means that it’s a new and greater risk than it was before.

Action: Audit your GA profile and implementation for PII risks:

There are various ways you can search within GA itself to find data that could be personally identifying in places like page titles, URLs, custom data, etc. (see these two excellent guides)

You can also audit your implementation by reviewing rules in tag manager and/or reviewing the code present on key pages. The most likely suspects are the places where people log in, take key actions on your site, give you additional personal information, or check out

Don’t take your EU law advice from big US tech companies

The internal effort and coordination required at Google to do their bit to comply even “just” as data processor is significant. Unfortunately, there are strong arguments that this kind of ostensibly user-friendly regulation which incurs outsize compliance burdens on smaller companies will cement the duopoly and dominance of Google and Facebook and enables them to pass the costs and burdens of compliance onto sectors that are already struggling.

Regardless of the intended or unintended consequences of the regulation, it seems clear to me that we shouldn’t be basing our own businesses’ (and our clients’) compliance on self-interested advice and actions from the tech giants. No matter how impressive their own compliance, I’ve been hugely underwhelmed by guidance content they’ve put out. See, for example, Google’s GDPR “checklist” — not exactly what I’d hope for:

https://ift.tt/2KGKKnD

[rodneyevesuarywk]

What Google's GDPR Compliance Efforts Mean for Your Data: Two Urgent Actions

Posted by willcritchlow

It should be quite obvious for anyone that knows me that I’m not a lawyer, and therefore that what follows is not legal advice. For anyone who doesn’t know me: I’m not a lawyer, I’m certainly not your lawyer, and what follows is definitely not legal advice.

With that out of the way, I wanted to give you some bits of information that might feed into your GDPR planning, as they come up more from the marketing side than the pure legal interpretation of your obligations and responsibilities under this new legislation. While most legal departments will be considering the direct impacts of the GDPR on their own operations, many might miss the impacts that other companies’ (namely, in this case, Google’s) compliance actions have on your data.

But I might be getting a bit ahead of myself: it’s quite possible that not all of you know what the GDPR is, and why or whether you should care. If you do know what it is, and you just want to get to my opinions, go ahead and skip down the page.

What is the GDPR?

The tweet-length version is that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is new EU legislation covering data protection and privacy for EU citizens, and it applies to all companies offering goods or services to people in the EU.

Even if you aren’t based in the EU, it applies to your company if you have customers who are, and it has teeth (fines of up to the greater of 4% of global revenue or EUR20m). It comes into force on May 25. You have probably heard about it through the myriad organizations who put you on their email list without asking and are now emailing you to “opt back in.”

In most companies, it will not fall to the marketing team to research everything that has to change and achieve compliance, though it is worth getting up to speed with at least the high-level outline and in particular its requirements around informed consent, which is:

"...any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her."

As always, when laws are made about new technology, there are many questions to be resolved, and indeed, jokes to be made:

Can you recommend a GDPR expert? -yes Can I have their email address? -no — Adam Cleevely (@ACleevely) May 2, 2018

But my post today isn’t about what you should do to get compliant — that’s specific to your circumstances — and a ton has been written about this already:

I’ve found value in the content Ometria has produced on this front, e.g. 6 things e-commerce marketers should know about GDPR and their deeper GDPR guide (registration required)

If you work in the area, this GDPR impact on social post from Buffer will get you up to speed there

And for the paid marketers among us, this GDPR impact on AdWords article from WordStream is what you need

My intention is not to write a general guide, but rather to warn you about two specific things you should be doing with analytics (Google Analytics in particular) as a result of changes Google is making because of GDPR.

Unexpected consequences of GDPR

When you deal directly with a person in the EU, and they give you personally identifiable information (PII) about themselves, you are typically in what is called the "data controller" role. The GDPR also identifies another role, which it calls "data processor," which is any other company your company uses as a supplier and which handles that PII. When you use a product like Google Analytics on your website, Google is taking the role of data processor. While most of the restrictions of the GDPR apply to you as the controller, the processor must also comply, and it’s here that we see some potentially unintended (but possibly predictable) consequences of the legislation.

Google is unsurprisingly seeking to minimize their risk (I say it’s unsurprising because those GDPR fines could be as large as $4.4 billion based on last year’s revenue if they get it wrong). They are doing this firstly by pushing as much of the obligation onto you (the data controller) as possible, and secondly, by going further by default than the GDPR requires and being more aggressive than the regulation requires in shutting down accounts that infringe their terms (regardless of whether the infringement also infringes the GDPR).

This is entirely rational — with GA being in most cases a product offered for free, and the value coming to Google entirely in the aggregate, it makes perfect sense to limit their risks in ways that don’t degrade their value, and to just kick risky setups off the platform rather than taking on extreme financial risk for individual free accounts.

It’s not only Google, by the way. There are other suppliers doing similar things which will no doubt require similar actions, but I am focusing on Google here simply because GA is pervasive throughout the web marketing world. Some companies are even going as far as shutting down entirely for EU citizens (like unroll.me). See this Twitter thread of others.

Consequence 1: Default data retention settings for GA will delete your data

Starting on May 25, Google will be changing the default for data retention, meaning that if you don’t take action, certain data older than the cutoff will be automatically deleted.

You can read more about the details of the change on Krista Seiden’s personal blog (Krista works at Google, but this post is written in her personal capacity).

The reason I say that this isn’t strictly a GDPR thing is that it is related to changes Google is making on their end to ensure that they comply with their obligations as a data processor. It gives you tools you might need but isn’t strictly related to your GDPR compliance. There is no particular “right” answer to the question of how long you need to/should be/are allowed to keep this data stored in GA under the GDPR, but by my reading, given that it shouldn’t be PII anyway (see below) it isn’t really a GDPR question for most organizations. In particular, there is no particular reason to think that Google’s default is the correct/mandated/only setting you can choose under the GDPR.

Action: Review the promises being made by your legal team and your new privacy policy to understand the correct timeline setting for your org. In the absence of explicit promises to your users, my understanding is that you can retain any of this data you were allowed to capture in the first place unless you receive a deletion request against it. So while most orgs will have at least some changes to make to privacy policies at a minimum, most GA users can change back to retain this data indefinitely.

Consequence 2: Google is deleting GA accounts for capturing PII

It has long been against the Terms of Service to store any personally identifiable information (PII) in Google Analytics. Recently, though, it appears that Google has become far more diligent in checking for the presence of PII and robust in their handling of accounts found to contain any. Put more simply, Google will delete your account if they find PII.

It’s impossible to know for sure that this is GDPR-related, but being able if necessary to demonstrate to regulators that they are taking strict actions against anyone violating their PII-related terms is an obvious move for Google to reduce the risk they face as a Data Processor. It makes particular sense in an area where the vast majority of accounts are free accounts. Much like the previous point, and the reason I say that this is related to Google’s response to the GDPR coming into force, is that it would be perfectly possible to get your users’ permission to record their data in third-party services like GA, and fully comply with the regulations. Regardless of the permissions your users give you, Google’s GDPR-related crackdown (and heavier enforcement of the related terms that have been present for some time) means that it’s a new and greater risk than it was before.

Action: Audit your GA profile and implementation for PII risks:

There are various ways you can search within GA itself to find data that could be personally identifying in places like page titles, URLs, custom data, etc. (see these two excellent guides)

You can also audit your implementation by reviewing rules in tag manager and/or reviewing the code present on key pages. The most likely suspects are the places where people log in, take key actions on your site, give you additional personal information, or check out

Don’t take your EU law advice from big US tech companies

The internal effort and coordination required at Google to do their bit to comply even “just” as data processor is significant. Unfortunately, there are strong arguments that this kind of ostensibly user-friendly regulation which incurs outsize compliance burdens on smaller companies will cement the duopoly and dominance of Google and Facebook and enables them to pass the costs and burdens of compliance onto sectors that are already struggling.

Regardless of the intended or unintended consequences of the regulation, it seems clear to me that we shouldn’t be basing our own businesses’ (and our clients’) compliance on self-interested advice and actions from the tech giants. No matter how impressive their own compliance, I’ve been hugely underwhelmed by guidance content they’ve put out. See, for example, Google’s GDPR “checklist” — not exactly what I’d hope for:

https://ift.tt/2KGKKnD

[christinesumpmg1]

What Google's GDPR Compliance Efforts Mean for Your Data: Two Urgent Actions

Posted by willcritchlow

It should be quite obvious for anyone that knows me that I’m not a lawyer, and therefore that what follows is not legal advice. For anyone who doesn’t know me: I’m not a lawyer, I’m certainly not your lawyer, and what follows is definitely not legal advice.

With that out of the way, I wanted to give you some bits of information that might feed into your GDPR planning, as they come up more from the marketing side than the pure legal interpretation of your obligations and responsibilities under this new legislation. While most legal departments will be considering the direct impacts of the GDPR on their own operations, many might miss the impacts that other companies’ (namely, in this case, Google’s) compliance actions have on your data.

But I might be getting a bit ahead of myself: it’s quite possible that not all of you know what the GDPR is, and why or whether you should care. If you do know what it is, and you just want to get to my opinions, go ahead and skip down the page.

What is the GDPR?

The tweet-length version is that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is new EU legislation covering data protection and privacy for EU citizens, and it applies to all companies offering goods or services to people in the EU.

Even if you aren’t based in the EU, it applies to your company if you have customers who are, and it has teeth (fines of up to the greater of 4% of global revenue or EUR20m). It comes into force on May 25. You have probably heard about it through the myriad organizations who put you on their email list without asking and are now emailing you to “opt back in.”

In most companies, it will not fall to the marketing team to research everything that has to change and achieve compliance, though it is worth getting up to speed with at least the high-level outline and in particular its requirements around informed consent, which is:

"...any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her."

As always, when laws are made about new technology, there are many questions to be resolved, and indeed, jokes to be made:

Can you recommend a GDPR expert? -yes Can I have their email address? -no — Adam Cleevely (@ACleevely) May 2, 2018

But my post today isn’t about what you should do to get compliant — that’s specific to your circumstances — and a ton has been written about this already:

I’ve found value in the content Ometria has produced on this front, e.g. 6 things e-commerce marketers should know about GDPR and their deeper GDPR guide (registration required)

If you work in the area, this GDPR impact on social post from Buffer will get you up to speed there

And for the paid marketers among us, this GDPR impact on AdWords article from WordStream is what you need

My intention is not to write a general guide, but rather to warn you about two specific things you should be doing with analytics (Google Analytics in particular) as a result of changes Google is making because of GDPR.

Unexpected consequences of GDPR

When you deal directly with a person in the EU, and they give you personally identifiable information (PII) about themselves, you are typically in what is called the "data controller" role. The GDPR also identifies another role, which it calls "data processor," which is any other company your company uses as a supplier and which handles that PII. When you use a product like Google Analytics on your website, Google is taking the role of data processor. While most of the restrictions of the GDPR apply to you as the controller, the processor must also comply, and it’s here that we see some potentially unintended (but possibly predictable) consequences of the legislation.

Google is unsurprisingly seeking to minimize their risk (I say it’s unsurprising because those GDPR fines could be as large as $4.4 billion based on last year’s revenue if they get it wrong). They are doing this firstly by pushing as much of the obligation onto you (the data controller) as possible, and secondly, by going further by default than the GDPR requires and being more aggressive than the regulation requires in shutting down accounts that infringe their terms (regardless of whether the infringement also infringes the GDPR).

This is entirely rational — with GA being in most cases a product offered for free, and the value coming to Google entirely in the aggregate, it makes perfect sense to limit their risks in ways that don’t degrade their value, and to just kick risky setups off the platform rather than taking on extreme financial risk for individual free accounts.

It’s not only Google, by the way. There are other suppliers doing similar things which will no doubt require similar actions, but I am focusing on Google here simply because GA is pervasive throughout the web marketing world. Some companies are even going as far as shutting down entirely for EU citizens (like unroll.me). See this Twitter thread of others.

Consequence 1: Default data retention settings for GA will delete your data

Starting on May 25, Google will be changing the default for data retention, meaning that if you don’t take action, certain data older than the cutoff will be automatically deleted.

You can read more about the details of the change on Krista Seiden’s personal blog (Krista works at Google, but this post is written in her personal capacity).

The reason I say that this isn’t strictly a GDPR thing is that it is related to changes Google is making on their end to ensure that they comply with their obligations as a data processor. It gives you tools you might need but isn’t strictly related to your GDPR compliance. There is no particular “right” answer to the question of how long you need to/should be/are allowed to keep this data stored in GA under the GDPR, but by my reading, given that it shouldn’t be PII anyway (see below) it isn’t really a GDPR question for most organizations. In particular, there is no particular reason to think that Google’s default is the correct/mandated/only setting you can choose under the GDPR.

Action: Review the promises being made by your legal team and your new privacy policy to understand the correct timeline setting for your org. In the absence of explicit promises to your users, my understanding is that you can retain any of this data you were allowed to capture in the first place unless you receive a deletion request against it. So while most orgs will have at least some changes to make to privacy policies at a minimum, most GA users can change back to retain this data indefinitely.

Consequence 2: Google is deleting GA accounts for capturing PII

It has long been against the Terms of Service to store any personally identifiable information (PII) in Google Analytics. Recently, though, it appears that Google has become far more diligent in checking for the presence of PII and robust in their handling of accounts found to contain any. Put more simply, Google will delete your account if they find PII.

It’s impossible to know for sure that this is GDPR-related, but being able if necessary to demonstrate to regulators that they are taking strict actions against anyone violating their PII-related terms is an obvious move for Google to reduce the risk they face as a Data Processor. It makes particular sense in an area where the vast majority of accounts are free accounts. Much like the previous point, and the reason I say that this is related to Google’s response to the GDPR coming into force, is that it would be perfectly possible to get your users’ permission to record their data in third-party services like GA, and fully comply with the regulations. Regardless of the permissions your users give you, Google’s GDPR-related crackdown (and heavier enforcement of the related terms that have been present for some time) means that it’s a new and greater risk than it was before.

Action: Audit your GA profile and implementation for PII risks:

There are various ways you can search within GA itself to find data that could be personally identifying in places like page titles, URLs, custom data, etc. (see these two excellent guides)

You can also audit your implementation by reviewing rules in tag manager and/or reviewing the code present on key pages. The most likely suspects are the places where people log in, take key actions on your site, give you additional personal information, or check out

Don’t take your EU law advice from big US tech companies

The internal effort and coordination required at Google to do their bit to comply even “just” as data processor is significant. Unfortunately, there are strong arguments that this kind of ostensibly user-friendly regulation which incurs outsize compliance burdens on smaller companies will cement the duopoly and dominance of Google and Facebook and enables them to pass the costs and burdens of compliance onto sectors that are already struggling.

Regardless of the intended or unintended consequences of the regulation, it seems clear to me that we shouldn’t be basing our own businesses’ (and our clients’) compliance on self-interested advice and actions from the tech giants. No matter how impressive their own compliance, I’ve been hugely underwhelmed by guidance content they’ve put out. See, for example, Google’s GDPR “checklist” — not exactly what I’d hope for:

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