Jargon-Free GDPR and Shiny Tech-taming for VAs
A straightforward blog about all things data protection and virtualgo2 related
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.… Read more
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 and platforms I use, lots of time spent and frequent frustration because I’m not brimming with clever ideas that will make me and my business well-known and successful.… Read more
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.… Read more
As a Data Controller, which you almost certainly are, it’s your responsibility to deliver the Rights of the Individual when handling personal data.… Read more
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 show the what, when, why, where and how your business handles it… OK, that’s a major simplification but, with the right template, you will easily get into the swing of recording the essentials.… Read more
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!… Read more
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.… Read more
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 to view meeting GDPR requirements as actually supporting your marketing efforts rather than hampering them (I know, shock eh?!).… Read more
This is the third and concluding instalment of my common-sense GDPR series (for now…).
There are just three items left to cover:
• what about your suppliers
• make sure that GDPR is part of everything that you do in your business, and finally,
• make sure you check everything regularly.… Read more
Welcome to Common-sense GDPR Part 2.
Following on from the first article, here are another four points for you to bear in mind:
• what data should you collect?
• know long should you be keeping it?
• be sure to keep it safe at all times, and
• know what you have and where it is.… Read more
