The following are privacy notices for the Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin. You can reference it when compiling the privacy policy for your own WordPress sites that use Contact Form 7 for contact forms.
If you are looking for the privacy policy for this website (contactform7.com), please refer to the Privacy policy page instead of this page.
Privacy notices
With the default configuration, the Contact Form 7 plugin, in itself, does not:
- track users by stealth;
- write any user personal data to the database;
- send any data to external servers;
- use cookies.
If you activate certain features in this plugin, the contact form submitter’s personal data, including their IP address, may be sent to the service provider. Thus, confirming the provider’s privacy policy is advised. These features include:
- Akismet (Automattic)
- Brevo
- reCAPTCHA (Google)
- Stripe
- Turnstile (Cloudflare)
If you use any add-on plugins for Contact Form 7, note that Contact Form 7 has no responsibility for the add-ons’ activity. In fact, Contact Form 7 has no information concerning how the add-ons handle personal data. Thus, paying extra attention to the privacy information they provide is advised.
Also note that because Contact Form 7 is an application that runs on a server you own, and its developers and the company cannot access personal data transmitted between your server and clients, none of the developers or the company should be regarded as a data processor or a data controller in terms of data privacy legislation such as GDPR.