Tame your Tech & Calm your Compliance – help for VAs (and clients)
A straightforward blog about all things data protection and virtualgo2 related
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.… Read more
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 it over the course of the coming year.… Read more
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
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