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GDPR do we need to comply with it or not?
Hi all, just wondered what you’re all doing regarding this GDPR thing!
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I’m ignoring it completely hoping it will go away.
Seriously though – there are so many rules and regulations in this country now, I doubt very much that I’m not breaking someone’s rules and regulations on a daily basis during my miserable existance.. :awkward: :bangshead:
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I’ve been ignoring it too Phill, I think I’ll wait till I get fined £17,000,000 as was mentioned on the radio earlier!! :yikes:
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quote Neil Davey:I’ve been ignoring it to Phill, I think I’ll wait till I get fined £17,000,000 as was mentioned on the radio earlier!! :yikes:phils public liability should cover the fine :smiles:
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quote Derek Heron:quote Neil Davey:I’ve been ignoring it to Phill, I think I’ll wait till I get fined £17,000,000 as was mentioned on the radio earlier!! :yikes:phils public liability should cover the fine :smiles:
With a whopping £3.75 of PL cover, Phill has been served just fine like that since 1873 !!
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What a nightmare this topic is…
I’ve had so many emails through asking for consent from companies I’ve never heard of its unreal. Furthermore, if you are B2B then consent is just one way of complying, there are 5 other ways to comply, one of the most interesting is legitimate interest. So hopefully, if your customers use products you sell then legitimate interest should cover the communication side of GDPR.
It’s worth noting, the guy that presented this course told us a number of times that unless it is a serious breach of GDPR then it is unlikely the ICO would fine you. They are more interested in educating and helping companies become compliant. If you keep ignoring them then that would be a different story.
Hope this helps 🙂
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Its a europe thing. It will be not out problem by next year. lol.
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52,209 emails sent via mailchimp – that’s £500ish quid for GDRP………. 👿
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quote Simon Worrall:Its a europe thing. It will be not out problem by next year. lol.Yet more pointless bureaucracy from the EU, something else they dreamed up to justify their existence
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to be fair, is it really a bad thing?
We all get emails from companies we either do not want to, or no longer wish to. I’ve used this as a great way to thin out dozens of automated emails from companies I’ve not used in years, from those who send out too much, from those I never wanted to hear from in the first place.. etc.
Do we as small businesses send out hundreds of emails? I don’t, I only ever contact people as and when required, I’ve considered it on occasion but I don’t know if it really brings more repeat custom than if I don’t!
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More jobs for the boys in Brussels I’m afraid. There will be some redundant department in the EU that have been given something else to do rather than let go.
Most of the irrelevant marketing emails I get will have an unsubscribe button on them, couple of minutes in the morning & they’re all gone. We don’t use any other ways of advertising our services than the van & the website, & like Hugh, only contact our customers during the project. We never contact them with special offers ( because we never have any ) so unless a stuffed shirt with a clipboard & a European accent comes knocking, I won’t be doing anything except deleting emails. -
Hope all of you with CCTV has the correct signage for GDPR 😆 & have registered with ICO.
It’s not just about email newsletters, CCTV is counted as personal data under GDPR. -
Supposedly keeping a note of a registration number is personal too, as you could identify an individual from it :rollseyes:
I’ve updated our privacy policy on the website, enabled a tick box on our contact form. We don’t bother with e-mail marketing, and don’t run special offers either, so not much changes here.
I had a barrage of e-mails asking if I still wanted to receive their newsletters… I’ve declined them all, most of them I’d never heard of.
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We had a good look into it and fortunately, the only sections that seems to apply to us are; tightening up on data security and updating the website privacy policy. I’d say the same probably applies to you guys as well (and updating the policy serves as a bit of insurance, should someone become unnecessarily interested in your business).
We have only been contacted once (one client’s ‘compliance officer’ asked for the updated policy), which did prompt us to get everything updated on the website.
In the end, we used a GDPR template generator which helped build our policy in under an hour. Cost 20 quid, but could save our bacon in the future.
Fortunately, we don’t send marketing emails and probably never will. The following articles help clear things up in simple terms that hopefully won’t bore anyone too much:
Wired article that explains in reality, everything we have been receiving might just be a ‘knee-jerk’ mass panic: www. wired.co.uk. GDPR explained for small businesses: www. xero.com/uk
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Just received a letter today from ICO. Apparently all businesses that process information have to register with ico.org.uk and pay an annual fee of £40- £60 a year for the privilege. Though I fail to see how paying this fee makes you compliant. If you don’t register and don’t pay the fee you risk a fine. Seems to me that every single business in the UK (unless they don’t issue any kind of receipt) is liable
Anyone else receive this letter recently?
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Yea got it to Phil and had a look. Basically paying £40 for thin air.
If it was a couple hundred I would tell them to go whistle. Must be on a Scottish crack down.
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I have been away on business the past few days, Phill. but will check if we have received same.
its is like the PRS music licence… I ended up paying it for one area of our work. a couple of hundred for the privilege of staff playing the radio while they work. so now your on their database of having paid up and they stop hounding you. 5-6 months down the line, another similar organisation also wanting to charge us a fee for exactly the same thing. not as much, but still! :shake:
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Hi Phil, i also got this letter yesterday from the ICO. I have GDPR on the site and also just paid for the new SSL cert to show it’s a secure site etc for the next two years. Now i’m not sure why we have to pay the ICO, to me it’s just another money making scam to get you to pay for nothing (thin air), as with the SSL digital certificate that provides authentication for a website and enables an encrypted connection and GDPR already showing customers the T&C and website policy why would i need to pay this as well ?. It’s getting a bit out of hand with all this data protection if you ask me.
To pay or not to pay?
Alan
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