Security update: Your website is being protected

On 21 October, critical security vulnerabilities affecting PHP, the technology behind WordPress and many other websites, required urgent action across the hosting industry.

Castlegate IT worked closely with our hosting providers to prepare for the necessary security updates. Importantly, our hosting partners and Cloudflare implemented additional firewall protections before the security patches were released, helping to protect websites against attempts to exploit these vulnerabilities.

The necessary patches have now been applied across our main managed hosting environments. A small number of legacy environments remain protected by additional firewall measures while their updates are completed.

No action is required from our clients. We continue to monitor the situation and manage the necessary security measures on their behalf.

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Consent management platform for automated GDPR compliance

Data privacy in the fabric of your website

Big data is big business. With advanced analytics, you can learn more about your website visitors than ever before. You can know when they visit, what they do, even why they visit. But this information is all vulnerable to theft, harvesting and surveillance by bad actors. With access to your customers’ data comes a responsibility to their privacy. Protecting the data privacy of your users isn’t just “nice to have”. It needs to be integrated into the design and function of your website. That’s where Consent Management Platforms come in.

Consent management platform for automated GDPR compliance

A Consent Management Platform

The power to make informed consent

A Consent Management Platform (CMP) lets you safeguard the data privacy of your users and stay on the right side of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy laws. GDPR regulates how companies are allowed to collect and process personal data. At the core of GDPR is the informed consent of each user. But the majority of cookies are buried within other trackers and some even change every time a website is visited. If you don’t have a handle on your cookies, then you can’t fully inform your users. By detecting and controlling all trackers, a CMP enables meaningful consent.

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Maintain your GDPR compliance

We harness the power of Cookiebot, a world-leading CMP, to put the control over cookies and trackers in website visitors’ hands. We start by conducting a deep scan of your website to identify all data processing and third-party data tracking. Every visitor to your site will then see a banner with a cookie declaration created from the scan, through which they can make an informed choice. The user can give meaningful consent and the whole framework of your website becomes privacy compliant – as GDPR requires it to be by law.

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Build trust through transparent data exchange

The benefits of having a CMP don’t end with GDPR compliance. It can also help you avoid the hefty fines which accompany unregulated data processing. Many funding bodies also demand data privacy compliance. Showing that you are proactively monitoring and controlling cookies generates trust with your users. Working from principles of transparent data exchange legitimises your business, and edges you ahead of the competition.

Worried about GDPR and data privacy? Email us on info@castlegateit.co.uk to get expert advice.

Accessible website design and development

Accessible website design and development

Web accessibility is the inclusive practice of designing websites with no barriers to users. With accessible web design you can reach more customers and protect your business from legal action. Done properly, web accessibility benefits everyone.

Accessible website design and development

WordPress website development

WordPress website development

We build custom-designed websites using WordPress, an industry-leading, open-source content management system. WordPress provides easy control over the content on your site, and a well-supported platform that is secure, versatile and future-proof.

WordPress website development

Website hosting, maintenance and support

Website hosting, maintenance and support

Website hosting, maintenance, and support packages to perfectly meet your requirements

Website hosting, maintenance and support

WordPress security compliance

WordPress security compliance

Around the world 30,000 websites are hacked every day. The average data breach costs £3.15 million. For global brands and corporate institutions this is too big a risk to take. We work with household names to secure their WordPress websites and applications to the very highest level.

WordPress security compliance

WooCommerce websites

WooCommerce websites

Want to sell online through your WordPress website? Look no further than WooCommerce. Join the 6 million users who are selling their products and services with the world’s most popular e-commerce plugin.

WooCommerce websites

Bespoke web applications

Bespoke web applications

If you have a business process that could be better done, or only done, on the web, our developers can create a bespoke web application just for you. No project is too big or too unusual!

Bespoke web applications

Search engine optimisation

Search engine optimisation

Your website will only be successful if people can find it. Search engine optimisation is the technique we use to improve your ranking in Google and other search engines – helping your website to reach its target audience.

Search engine optimisation

Multi-language WordPress websites

Multi-language WordPress websites

The internet is a global, multilingual marketplace. Translate your website to reach international clients, build brand trust worldwide, and make your offering accessible and inclusive. Start speaking your customers’ language today.

Multi-language WordPress websites

Branding, design and print

Branding, design and print

First impressions matter. The way you present yourself to prospective customers makes the difference between showcasing your professionalism and casting doubt over your credibility. We understand how important strong branding is to create an identity for your business.

Branding, design and print

Google Ads management

Google Ads management

Ranking highly on Google is crucial if visitors are to find your website. It can be challenging for a new site to find its way to page one of a Google search, especially in a competitive market. Google Ads gives you a shortcut to the top. Instant results from day one.

Google Ads management

Website design

Website design

Web design is about more than making your site look nice. Our designers have experience and training in user experience design and coding to make sure that your design flies in real life as well as it does in the presentation.

Website design

Email campaigns

Email campaigns

When you want to keep your customers, clients or members up-to-date, informed and in touch with your organisation, email newsletters are a fast, effective and versatile communications tool.

Email campaigns

Website hosting

Website hosting

We offer a range of fast and reliable web hosting services that will keep your website running quickly and securely.

Website hosting

Website copywriting

Website copywriting

Website copywriting must create content that works for search engines and humans To be successful and effective, website content must satisfy the demands of its two most important audiences: your customers and search engines.

Website copywriting

Photography for websites

Photography for websites

Professional imagery for your website, demonstrating who you are, what you do, and why you are top of your game.

Photography for websites

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