Dear Valued Customer,

Updates to Privacy Statement

We would like to inform you that we have updated the Webnetics Privacy Statement. The Privacy Statement governs our use of your data in relation to Webnetics products, marketing communications, support and services. Some of the updates we made address the new requirements in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as to how we process EU personal data.

We strongly encourage you to review the Privacy Statement to further understand how your data is collected, shared and used by Webnetics. Your continued use of Webnetics products and services acknowledges your acceptance of the updated Privacy Statement.

What is GDPR?

We would like to draw your attention towards one of the biggest regulatory changes that will soon be upon us - the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Announced earlier in December 2015 by the EU commission, the GDPR will come into effect on May 25, 2018 and businesses all over the world have been gearing up for the big change.

Below is a summary of the GDPR and changes we expect to see when the law comes into effect.

GDPR is short for the General Data Protection Regulation. The law was passed by European lawmakers to create a harmonized data privacy law across EU member states. Its purpose is to: 

1.Support privacy as a fundamental human right 
2.Require companies that handle personal data to be accountable for managing that data appropriately; and give individuals rights over how their personal data is processed or otherwise used 

How does GDPR impact you?

Individuals, companies, or businesses that have a presence in the EU or, if no presence, offer goods or services to, or monitor the behaviour of, individuals in the EU need to comply with this law.

What do you need to do differently to comply with GDPR?

If the GDPR applies to you, there are various obligations you will need to comply with in order to continue doing business with your customers from the EU. Luckily, not all of these obligations are new, so you should be complying with some of them already.

What kind of Consent is required under the GDPR? 

The GDPR requires explicit, granular, documented consent from our customers. 

What is Webnetics doing to comply with the GDPR?

The protection of our customer’s personal data is of utmost importance to us and we are committed to achieving compliance by May 25, 2018. We have classified our plan in 3 broad categories:

1.Privacy Statement
2.WHOIS Changes
3.Cookie Consent 

Other changes

You may be aware that there is likely to be further change in the near future about the way in which you can send marketing communication to our customers or your customers in the EU. The rules contained in the EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications is under review and we are expecting a new ePrivacy Regulation to be finalized soon.
Once these new rules are finalized, we will be reviewing our forms and features again to provide our partners with the necessary tools to help with achieving compliance.

Dear Valued Customer,

We would like to remind our customer that they can purchase Personal SSL from us, or a 3dr party SSL provider, to secure there eCommence websites.

Beginning in January 2017, Chrome (version 56 and later) will mark pages that collect passwords or credit card details as “Not Secure” unless the pages are served over HTTPS.

The following URLs include input fields for passwords or credit card details that will trigger the new Chrome warning. Review these examples to see where these warnings will appear, so that you can take action to help protect users’ data. The list is not exhaustive.

Example

www.yourwebsite.com
 

We would will like to announce as of the 21st October. All of the Shared Hosting Packages we now offer PHP 7.1 RC 3. Existing customers will be able to test this version with their websites. Please take a note that this is a development release, meaning that the same SHOULD NOT be used on live websites as without actual testing this can cause severe damage to any websites utilizing some of the older php releases.

We would to announce that we now provides support for multiple php versions and all our Shared Hosting. Customers can successfully utilize one of the following supported php versions, from within cPanel.

Php 5.4
Php 5.5
Php 5.6
Php 7.1

Dear Valued Customer,

cPanel has announced that it no longer support “Courier” email servers and the new standard will be the “Dovecot” mail servers. We will be upgrading all our mail server to the new standard on the 1th March 2016.

This is getting ready for the new cPanel launch. The new version will be called “cPanel 54”

Our existing website has been re-designed with a new modem vibrant look, new content, significant layout updates, also incorporating our new Customer Support Management system (CMSs). All the contents you see within our website is controlled from own in-house contents management system called VrCMS. All pages are written in php and then re-written using our unique SEO url’s software, this will allow us keep our present page ranking within Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. this will also allow us to increase our page ranking position within all the major search engines.

Our offices will be closing for the Christmas and New Year at 12pm on Thursday 23rd December 2015, opening again on Monday 4th January 2016.

Our support services will still be available through the support@vwdesigns.co.uk email address as per usual, through-out the holidays.
However, no support service will be available on the following week days:

Friday 25th December 2015 and Friday 1st January 2016.

We would like to wish all our customers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and thank you for your support during 2015.

We have now upgraded all our servers to PHP 5.4.45.

We did upgrade to PHP 5.5.30 and found this did break a lot of websites and through up some unexpected errors. We then took the decision to downgrade to PHP 5.4.45, all existing website appear to be working ok.

Dear Valued Customer,
 
This announcement is to notify all customers that we will be commencing PHP upgrades across all our servers from the 5th December 2015.

Currently all our servers are running PHP 5.3 as its primary version. Unfortunately this version is End of Life and also PHP 5.4 is now reached its End of Life as well, which mean they will no longer be officially updated or supported or security updates from the vendor.
 
In order to continue providing high performance & security across our hosting environments, we will be upgrading to the latest officially supported PHP version 5.5. This will mean that some software will no longer work after the upgrade.
 
We have done a scan on all our shared hosting accounts, and have found a number of software which will no longer work under PHP 5.5, you will need to upgrade to the latest software, from the vendor who supplied the original software. In some cases this will not possible, if we are able to help we do so.
 
We apologies in advanced, if this will cause any inconvenience.

We are proud to announce the first Alpha release of VrUnity PRO. This version will include a number of features, still a bit ruff around the edges.

VrUnity was developed for our own in—house projects, to track our own source code and images, when we were developing software for clients, we found existing systems difficult to install or overly complicated. We needed a system, which we could edit and makes changes to and needed to run on a local host.

VrUnity is written in PHP and MySQL Database to store the files and control the versions of the file. We are planning to release a new version of VrUnity within the next 4 months. The Alpha released version will have all the features which we currently use in-house, but need to be tidy up before a general public release, i.e interface will need tidying up, etc. Currently VrUnity has the following features:

This version will only be available to register members, for testing. Please use our forums to report any bugs, etc.

Features

• Compare files
  
• Compare Database
  
• Create Build Projects
  
• Check files in / out
  
• Integrated Issues Tracker
  
• All data stored in MySQL Database
  
• Restricted Users
  
• Reports
  
• Store Text & Binary Files.
  
• Encrypt Files using in built emption system
  
• Check-In / Check-Out - File locking by user
  
• PHP code is given coloured highlighting when viewing the file.
  
• Go back to any previous version - of any file or project.
  
• Output Macros.- Include meta info in output source files (File name, path, version, project version). Macros are automatically reverted when checking code in.
  
• File Branching.