<p>Data Privacy Manager for WooCommerce adds a self-service privacy center to WooCommerce My Account, giving customers a clear place to request data exports, ask for data erasure, and start an account deletion workflow.</p>
<p>It helps store teams reduce manual privacy request emails, manage customer privacy workflows from WooCommerce Admin, and support GDPR-style privacy request handling with a cleaner customer experience. Customers can see available privacy actions, follow request status, download completed export files, and receive updates during account deletion. Store teams can configure privacy options, manage account-closure review, customize plugin-managed emails, and control which staff users can help manage privacy workflows.</p>
<h2>What you’ll get</h2>
<p>With Data Privacy Manager for WooCommerce, you can add customer privacy workflow tools directly to your store:</p>
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<li><strong>Data Privacy area in My Account:</strong> Give customers one clear place to manage supported privacy actions from their WooCommerce account.</li>
<li><strong>Personal data export requests:</strong> Let customers request a copy of their personal data and download completed export files when available.</li>
<li><strong>Personal data erasure requests:</strong> Allow customers to submit erasure requests and follow their status from My Account.</li>
<li><strong>Account deletion workflow:</strong> Add a structured account-closure flow with OTP confirmation, hold-period handling, cancellation support, and customer-facing status updates.</li>
<li><strong>Request history and status tracking:</strong> Show customers what is pending, confirmed, completed, cancelled, or awaiting follow-up.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Admin privacy workspace:</strong> Manage privacy settings, account-closure requests, workflow options, staff access, and plugin-managed emails from WooCommerce Admin.</li>
<li><strong>Editable privacy emails:</strong> Customize plugin-managed customer and staff emails for clearer privacy communication.</li>
<li><strong>Privacy staff access controls:</strong> Decide which staff users can help manage privacy workflows and internal notifications.</li>
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<h2>Add a privacy center to WooCommerce My Account</h2>
<p>Customers should not need to contact support just to find out how to request their data or close their account.</p>
<p>Data Privacy Manager for WooCommerce adds a dedicated Data Privacy area to My Account, where customers can start supported privacy actions and follow request progress from one place.</p>
<p>Customers can:</p>
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<li><strong>Request a personal data export:</strong> Start an export request from inside their account.</li>
<li><strong>Request erasure of eligible stored information:</strong> Submit an erasure request through a guided WooCommerce flow.</li>
<li><strong>Start account deletion:</strong> Begin an account-closure workflow with confirmation and status messaging.</li>
<li><strong>View request history:</strong> See previous and current privacy requests in one place.</li>
<li><strong>Download completed exports:</strong> Access completed export files when download links are available.</li>
<li><strong>Follow account-closure status:</strong> See hold-period, cancellation, and staff-message updates when enabled.</li>
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<h2>Scale privacy request handling</h2>
<p>Manual privacy request handling can become slow and inconsistent as a store grows. Use Data Privacy Manager for WooCommerce to create a clearer process for customers and staff.</p>
<p>Use the plugin to:</p>
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<li><strong>Reduce manual support work:</strong> Give customers self-service privacy actions instead of relying on back-and-forth support emails for every step.</li>
<li><strong>Improve customer trust:</strong> Make privacy options easier to find inside the account area customers already use.</li>
<li><strong>Keep workflows organized:</strong> Track request progress, account-closure milestones, staff notes, and customer-visible updates.</li>
<li><strong>Support GDPR-style workflows:</strong> Help your store manage export, erasure, and deletion requests more consistently while working with WordPress privacy tools.</li>
<li><strong>Give staff the right access:</strong> Assign privacy-management access to selected team members instead of exposing privacy tasks broadly.</li>
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<h2>Let customers request exports and erasure</h2>
<p>Give customers a clearer way to start privacy requests from their WooCommerce account.</p>
<p>Customers can request a copy of their personal data, submit an erasure request, and follow request status from My Account. Store owners can control which privacy actions are available and how long completed export links remain available.</p>
<p>This gives customers a better self-service experience while keeping export and erasure handling aligned with WordPress privacy tools.</p>
<h2>Manage account deletion with confirmation and review</h2>
<p>Account deletion often needs more care than a one-click delete button.</p>
<p>Data Privacy Manager for WooCommerce adds a guided account deletion workflow with OTP confirmation, optional staff review, hold-period handling, cancellation support, and customer-visible communication.</p>
<p>This helps stores create a clearer account-closure process while giving customers visibility into what is happening and what comes next.</p>
<p>Account-closure workflow tools include:</p>
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<li><strong>OTP confirmation:</strong> Require customer confirmation before the account-closure process continues.</li>
<li><strong>Hold-period handling:</strong> Give stores a structured window before final account deletion.</li>
<li><strong>Cancellation support:</strong> Allow account-closure requests to be cancelled when the workflow allows it.</li>
<li><strong>Customer-visible updates:</strong> Show status messages, milestones, and next steps in My Account.</li>
<li><strong>Internal staff notes:</strong> Keep request context available for the privacy team.</li>
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<h2>Manage privacy workflows in WooCommerce Admin</h2>
<p>Store teams can manage privacy workflows from a dedicated WooCommerce Admin workspace instead of piecing together settings across different screens.</p>
<p>The admin workspace helps staff:</p>
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<li><strong>Configure available actions:</strong> Choose which privacy actions appear to customers in My Account.</li>
<li><strong>Manage export and erasure options:</strong> Control customer-facing privacy request behavior.</li>
<li><strong>Review account-closure requests:</strong> Inspect request details, reasons, milestones, and messages.</li>
<li><strong>Approve or cancel workflows:</strong> Manage account-closure review steps when enabled.</li>
<li><strong>Manage plugin emails:</strong> Edit plugin-managed customer and staff privacy email templates.</li>
<li><strong>Assign privacy access:</strong> Control which staff users can help manage privacy workflows.</li>
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<h2>Customize privacy emails and staff access</h2>
<p>Privacy requests need clear communication between customers and store staff.</p>
<p>The plugin includes editable templates for plugin-managed privacy emails, including account-closure messages, customer-visible updates, staff alerts, and erasure approval messages.</p>
<p>Store owners can also assign privacy-management access to specific staff users and control whether the WordPress Administration Email Address receives internal privacy notifications.</p>
<h2>Works with WordPress privacy tools</h2>
<p>Data Privacy Manager for WooCommerce works with WordPress privacy tools for export and erasure requests.</p>
<p>The plugin adds the WooCommerce My Account experience, admin workflow controls, account deletion handling, staff access controls, request visibility, and plugin-managed privacy communication around those existing privacy workflows.</p>
<h2>Best for</h2>
<p>Data Privacy Manager for WooCommerce is a strong fit for:</p>
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<li><strong>WooCommerce stores:</strong> Add customer self-service privacy requests to My Account.</li>
<li><strong>Stores handling GDPR-style workflows:</strong> Support privacy request handling for export, erasure, and account deletion.</li>
<li><strong>Support teams:</strong> Reduce manual privacy request emails and repeated customer follow-ups.</li>
<li><strong>Agencies:</strong> Deliver a clearer privacy request experience for WooCommerce client stores.</li>
<li><strong>Stores with privacy staff:</strong> Assign access to the team members who should manage privacy workflows.</li>
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<h2>How to get started</h2>
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<li><strong>Purchase and download</strong> Data Privacy Manager for WooCommerce.</li>
<li><strong>Install and activate</strong> the .zip file in your WooCommerce store.</li>
<li><strong>Open WooCommerce > Data Privacy</strong> to configure privacy workflow settings.</li>
<li><strong>Choose which customer actions are available</strong> in My Account.</li>
<li><strong>Review export, erasure, and account-deletion settings</strong> for your store.</li>
<li><strong>Customize plugin-managed privacy emails</strong> if needed.</li>
<li><strong>Test the customer flow</strong> from My Account > Data Privacy.</li>
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<p>That is it. Your customers can start using the Data Privacy area in My Account, and your store team can manage privacy workflows from WooCommerce Admin.</p>
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<p>Need guidance? Check out the comprehensive documentation to learn everything you need to know about the Data Privacy Manager for WooCommerce extension.</p>
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<p>If you have pre-sale questions or need help, <span class="link-annotation-unknown-block-id--992406005">get in touch</span> with our friendly Support Engineers.</p>
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<div>Add customer privacy requests, data exports, erasure, and account deletion to WooCommerce My Account. Support GDPR-style privacy compliance workflows.</div>
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<h2>Security for WooCommerce:</h2>
<p>Fraudsters often use VPNs and proxies to hide their identities, putting eCommerce businesses at risk. <strong data-start="102" data-end="130">Security for WooCommerce</strong> helps you detect and block high-risk transactions by identifying masked locations and restricting purchases from countries you don’t sell to. While it strengthens your store’s security, it does not protect against velocity attacks. For advanced fraud prevention, check out <a href="//woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-anti-fraud/" rel="noopener" data-start="404" data-end="431"> Anti-Fraud for Woocommerce</a>.</p>
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<h3><strong>Restrict Sales to a Single Country</strong></h3>
<p>If your business operates domestically, you can limit sales to a single country to focus on your target market and block unwanted traffic from other regions.</p>
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<h3><strong>Manually Allow or Block Individual IP Addresses</strong></h3>
<p>With<strong> Security for WooCommerce,</strong> you can manually manage IP access by blocking suspicious users or allowing trusted ones. Add problematic IPs to the Blacklist to prevent fraud, or Whitelist trusted users like admins or virtual assistants for seamless access. This ensures secure, controlled access while protecting your store.<img class="alignnone wp-image-18734004756439" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/RandomIps.webp?w=896" alt="restrict access to cart at checkout" width="693" height="390" /><br />
<strong style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);font-size: 16px;letter-spacing: -0.011em">Restrict Access to Cart and Checkout</strong></p>
<p>Enhances security by allowing you to restrict access to the cart and checkout pages based on a visitor’s country.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734004756362" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/RestrictAccess.webp?w=896" alt="" width="693" height="390" /></p>
<h3><strong style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);font-size: 16px;letter-spacing: -0.011em">Restrict Access at the Product Level</strong></h3>
<p>Strengthens security by allowing you to restrict access to a product based on a visitor’s country.</p>
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<p><span style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);letter-spacing: -0.011em">Allows precise control over product visibility by region. The </span><strong style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);letter-spacing: -0.011em">Category<br />
Restrictions On/Off </strong><span style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);letter-spacing: -0.011em">setting enables or disables category-based blocking, while </span><strong style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);letter-spacing: -0.011em">Block Products by Category </strong><span style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);letter-spacing: -0.011em">lets you restrict specific WooCommerce product categories for visitors from blocked countries, ensuring compliance and a tailored shopping experience.</span></p>
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<h3><strong style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);font-size: 16px;letter-spacing: -0.011em">For Publicly Accessible Download Product Links</strong></h3>
<p><span style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);letter-spacing: -0.011em">Secure your downloadable products with IP-based access control. Choose <strong>Whitelist Mode</strong> to block specific IPs or <strong>Blacklist Mode</strong> to allow only approved IPs. Custom error messages ensure unauthorized downloads are prevented, providing extra protection and control for your WooCommerce store.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);letter-spacing: -0.011em">Enables you to restrict order placement to specific timeframes, ideal for stores serving a particular country or region and aiming to prevent orders from unintended time zones or areas.</span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734004756413" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/RestrictTimeFrame.webp?w=896" alt="block visitors access between timeframe toggle and time range" width="693" height="390" /></p>
<h3><strong style="font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-header);font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--paragraph-medium,18px);letter-spacing: -0.02em">Enhanced Site Protection</strong></h3>
<p><span style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);letter-spacing: -0.011em;font-size: 16px">The comprehensive WooCommerce Security plugin includes features to enhance site protection. It can hide the WordPress version number to prevent attackers from identifying version-specific vulnerabilities. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) adds an extra layer of security by requiring a second verification step. Additionally, a passcode protection feature allows restricted access using a configured username and password. All features are disabled by default.</span></p>
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<p><strong style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);font-size: 16px;letter-spacing: -0.011em">Scan Malware Manually</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);letter-spacing: -0.011em">Enables on-demand malware scans for your WordPress site, detecting security threats, suspicious code, and compromised files. Users can initiate a detailed scan with one click, receiving results that include the last scan date, infected files with suspected line numbers, and total threats found. The scanner checks PHP files, detects malicious patterns, and compares files against malware signatures, with results stored in the WordPress database and displayed in a table.</span></p>
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<div>These features help keep your site’s folders and files private and secure.<strong> Directory Listing Protection</strong> blocks people from browsing your folders, while <strong>File Indexing Protection</strong> prevents search engines from displaying sensitive files. Together, they keep your file structure hidden and your content safe. Both are off by default but can be easily turned on for extra security.</div>
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<p>The comprehensive <strong>Security for WooCommerce</strong> plugin ensures your website remains discoverable by allowing trusted search engine bots to index your site, even if they originate from blocked countries. You’ll receive <strong>email alerts</strong> whenever a blocked visitor attempts to log in via WP-Admin. Designed to help WooCommerce businesses block unwanted traffic, this plugin allows you to focus on serving genuine customers.</p>
<p><strong style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);font-size: 16px;letter-spacing: -0.011em">Block Visitors Access between Timeframe</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: var(--wp--preset--color--woo-text-gray,#101517);font-family: var(--wccom-font-family-default);letter-spacing: -0.011em">Empowers you to restrict order placement to specific timeframes, ideal for stores serving a particular country or region and aiming to prevent orders from unintended time zones or areas.</span></p>
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<h3>Stop Location Spoofing & Block VPN/Proxy Fraudsters</h3>

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