User Privacy Controls - More important now than ever
Suggestions
Hi Gary,
I understand your concerns, GDPR is serious, for everyone who has visitors or members from Europe. As a minimum you should adopt the privacy policy, terms and create a cookie policy. secondly for each new visitor a pop window should inform the user of the use of cookies and get consent and log the consent.
the cookies should differentiate between necessary, marketing, performance and statistic cookies. in addition you have to inform your members what cookies the site is using. where the members personal data is stored.
there are several service providers who can do this, I'm using cookiebot, GDPR Compliant policies can be found on the web. The whole thing is not cheap but better than loosing your European members or risking a substantial fine, which on paper is enforceable outside the EU. Not sure how aggressively they will try to prosecute, time will tell.
Birthday and all the other stuff explicit pictures or music you can get around by warning users there is may explicit stuff on your site and get your members to mark it explicit. In Europe 15 year old can determine and register on sites.
I also would recommend to look at the legal structure of a site. All my sites are owned by my company and not in my personal name. worst case scenario you can liquidate your company.
there is lots of other stuff which is too much for the forum and everyone has to make his own risk assessment.
rgds
Helmut