Contact Management Under GDPR: The Ultimate Set Of Features You Need

Mailjet has been one of the first ESPs (ok THE first) to get onboard with all GDPR requirements.
We know you missed us talking about GDPR, right? 😂

On a more serious note, our customers were very curious about GDPR compliance and are pretty concerned about security and data protection. You know, we are constantly working to make things easier for you. We gathered below all features related to contacts and GDPR available for all Mailjet’s customers.

Refresh your subscription form to add the new GDPR-compliant consent box

For optimal transparency and safety, we advise our users to implement Mailjet’s double opt-in subscription widget to build their contact lists.
Now, in addition to making sure that you have the consent of your recipients, you’ll be able download the proof of consent from each of your contacts. ✍🏽

How do we do this?

1. In widget creation, a small checkbox has been added. Tick the box.
2. Customize the text of the checkbox.

When a user subscribes to your newsletter, the consent information, including the widget name and consent checkbox text, will be added to their contact profile.
Here is an example of a GDPR-compliant checkbox:

3. You are all set!

Please note that if you already have our subscription widget on your website, you will need to re-install it to activate the GDPR checkbox, which will enable the proofs of consent to be stored.
This also means that you won’t be able to download a proof of consent for your old contacts.

No worries, though! If you’re using our widget from the beginning, we are here to cover you in case you encounter any issue with a recipient claiming she/he never consented to receive you information. We’ll be able to provide this information as it is registered in our system 😉.

Have your consent proofs stored and available for download when needed

Another great news is that you can now access and download this proof of consent directly from your Mailjet account, whenever you need it, without contacting our Support team.
Wondering how to download the consent proof of your contacts?

1. Search for a contact in your Contact lists.
2. Click on it and you’ll access all the details related to it (we did some re-design here by the way 🎨).
3. The proof of consent needed can then be downloaded right from here:

Delete a contact in one click

As you know, under and since GDPR, contacts are more aware about what informations they share, and it’s really common that they ask about being deleted from any list and any communication.
So besides unsubscribing, checking statuses and statistics, editing contact properties, removing a contact from a list, it’s now possible to delete a contact…from all your lists, in just one click, straight from the contact overview page:

Important note: statistics generated for all the emails sent to the removed contact will not be altered because of the deletion of the contact. But the contact and its informations will no longer be seen in the database, or available for future sendings.

We hope we helped you become (even more) GDPR-compliant.
Let us know what do you think once you set up the new widget on your website, and your opinion about these news in general!