You are legally responsible for your own webshop

You have created a beautiful website with excellent imagery.

But who is responsible?

Who is primarily responsible when your shop's data is leaked? Imagine: a customer of your web shop receives spam and you are sued. Your first reaction is to confront your website builder with the data leak in the web shop he built. However, the website builder will already have his word ready, because nowhere in the contract, for example, does it state that the site builder is responsible for security. So the legal liability always lies with yourself!

Legal liability for you as a website owner

You, the website owner, are always legally responsible for your website. This means that if something goes wrong or your website is hacked, it will always be to your detriment. As owner, you know that security of your website is necessary, but if you cannot prove that you have been actively working on it, no one is responsible for the consequences except you. With data breaches, especially when privacy-sensitive personal data is leaked, penalties can range from a fine to perhaps even jail time.

Prevent data breach!

Of course, you can prevent data leakage by making proper arrangements with the site builder and hosting party. But how?

• Have your website's security analyzed by optimally scanning it, using a reliable benchmark such as PCI-DSS or ISO 27001.
• Guarantee security and have the errors detected fixed by your website builder and/or hosting party.

Use the right scan for your website's security

The ideal scan for testing the security of your website is Trust Guard. This is a complete security tool where you have insight into the security status of your website in a clear dashboard. Moreover, in Trust Guard you can analyze multiple Web sites and also group them together in a clear way. The results indicated by the tool are easy to read and interpret. This also allows you to immediately see whether additional measures are required. Read more about Trust Guard.

You are in control with Trust Guard

In Trust Guard, you have the choice of different variants of security reports. Of course, you can also determine the scan frequency yourself, such as daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly. In this security tool, you can also give your website builders and hosting parties access so that you can jointly accept and fulfill legal liability.
In short: you yourself are legally responsible for your website and with Trust Guard you control the security of your website. With this tool, you have a clear overview in which you can easily group and collaborate with your suppliers.

Want to know more about Trust Guard? Get in touch with Vicus!