Tame your Tech & Calm your Compliance – help for VAs (and clients)
A straightforward blog about all things data protection and virtualgo2 related
Your Privacy Notice 2022 I’m going to stick my neck out here and say that the most well-known GDPR-related document is the Privacy Notice (OK, not very brave there). Despite this, many coaches, trainers, and consultants haven’t got their business’s Privacy Notice written, styled, and available in more than one (often not very good) version. …
Your Small Business, Your Responsibility – Your straightforward GDPR Blueprint for a safer business Your Small Business GDPR Blueprint: If you are a virtual assistant or a small business owner (you’re both!), this Small Business GDPR Blueprint will help you get your plans in place to create something invaluable for your business that will improve …
Cyber safety is essential for all online users and doubly so for online business owners because you carry the responsibility for all the personal data your business handles. The 6th principle of GDPR is integrity and confidentiality and within that principle is the security of the personal data you handle. You don’t need to be …
Marketing – 10 Essential GDPR Tips Marketing – 10 essential GDPR tips for owners of small businesses who do virtually everything themselves. We all know that marketing can be a bit of a trial and that’s an understatement! My experience has been a combination of blind panic, a massive learning curve for the tech …
Where does GDPR fit with Social Media for small UK businesses? GDPR and social media don’t really sound like the perfect combination but if you are trying to grow your business, you will no doubt be using social media as one of your key tools. It certainly isn’t easy or quick to learn to make …
GDPR Rights – How does an Owner-run Business Deliver the Rights of the Individual as required by GDPR? As a Data Controller, which you almost certainly are, it’s your responsibility to deliver the Rights of the Individual when handling personal data. As the owner of a business working away on an amazingly wide range of …
So why should you spend time on your business’s RoPA (and what is it) – why is it useful for you? Introduction to your Record of Processing Activity Your Record of Processing Activity (RoPA) is nothing more than a list of each type of personal data you handle with a set of explanatory details that …
Have you covered all your GDPR (lawful) bases? It’s often difficult to make GDPR relatable to the day-to-day work in a one-man/woman small business. If you have your head down beavering away at the “real work”, having someone telling you that you must do this or that this way is no help at all! This …
Straight from the horse’s mouth – Applying the Principles of GDPR Easily in Real Life Seven Principles: There are seven basic principles of GDPR. They are lawfulness, fairness and transparency, purpose limitation, data minimization, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity and confidentiality (that’s basically security), and then finally, accountability. Before we jump in… I recently explored this …
GDPR Rights – Accuracy Earlier today, I was thinking about one of the GDPR Rights of the Individual (as you do…). The particular right being that of Data Accuracy. Then I moved on to think about how your marketing efforts can be so easily tripped up by ignoring this or, a better slant would be …
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