{"id":39018,"date":"2021-11-26T07:26:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T07:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/act.com\/?page_id=39018"},"modified":"2026-04-13T01:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:33:59","slug":"act-crm-and-gdpr-compliance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.act.com\/en-gb\/guides\/act-crm-and-gdpr-compliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Act! CRM and GDPR Compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"actcrm-page-banner-container standard \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.act.com\/wp-content\/themes\/act-crm\/assets\/images\/actcrm-hero-banner.jpg);\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"page-banner-row\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"page-banner-text\">\n\t\t\t\t<h1>Act! CRM and GDPR Compliance<\/h1>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1741175252372{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; gap=&#8221;30&#8243;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1741105935218{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>How Act! CRM can help businesses to comply with GDPR<\/h2>\n<p>As a highly flexible and customisable solution, Act! CRM offers a wide variety of features that can help users to manage their data processes, privacy and security effectively. 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