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PRIVACY UPDATES & GDPR
May 25, 2018 by brennon
Over the past few months, we have been working on updating our Privacy Policies to meet the guidelines set out in the new EU GDPR legislation.
You will find the new information and processes detailed in our Privacy Centre.
GDPR represents a big change in the world, and we fully support what it's trying to achieve, and you will see the new platform has a ton of privacy features built in from the get-go.
However, for many small businesses, ours definitely included, GDPR also represents a significant challenge in ensuring we meet full compliance in all areas. The legislation is a little confusing in places and processes can be quite arduous in others.
So as a community I wanted to level with you all that we may or may not have fully grasped and implemented every aspect of the legislation, and it's still much of a work in progress for us as we learn more about how the legislation translates into real-world examples. Many of you will know us by now, we don’t claim to have all the answers but we work hard to get them, always.
So please bear with us over these next few months as we, where necessary fine tune things where needed, and be assured your privacy is very important to us.
Other than that you should notice very little difference, the newsletters etc will all start firing up again soon once the platform has bedded in and we have updated the underlying code in the ‘BeastBots™’ that pull them together, and in the meantime I encourage you to visit your profile pages [Link in top bar when you log in] and have a good poke around the settings available to you in there, and of course jump over to the Privacy Centre to learn a little more about what all this is about.
Thanks for all your continued support everyone!
Warren
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The barrage of emails from small companies I have received over the last few days has been a delight.based on that sample I’m fairly certain that you will not be alone in having to tweak things down the line. Keep up the good work and remember red tape is the lifeblood of any small business 😉
Yes indeed. We’ve had some good advisors (like @commodorerob) and some local agencies helping us out. But we do see a lot of businesses not doing what we have been advised to do – so we are just taking it a step at a time and tuning things that need to be tuned as we go until we get it right. 🙂
There is a lot of misunderstanding out there, the main problem is that most organisations were not doing what they should have been doing all along so have had to make far larger steps than really they should have been.
Know what data you have where it is, how you use it and be transparent about this and you cant go far wrong. Simples really 🙂
Couldn’t agree more Rob – Transparency is the key here.
Agreed, What it really means is that so many companies did not carry out a proper risk assessment! Kudos to BoW to write such a positive message and comply with this regulation.
Implementing GDPR requirements is a lot of work. I’ve been involved in it for the company I work for which is a LARGE multinational, and the complexities of unpicking and checking decades of processes and working practices is frankly obscene. Especially when there are countless subcontractors, vendors and customers involved.
But as you say it’s definitely the right way forward, but I suspect most companies, no matter the size, will struggle with 100% compliance from day1.
I feel you. Since I am sysadmin for the better time of my life the EU GDPR legislation is a real P.I.T.A.. Big time!
Yeah, we’ve been going through all this in my office as well. It’s nightmarish! The Boss has been sorting it out and it’s just horrible!
As long as you stop selling my data to “gentlemen’s interest” sites I’ll be happy, I mean as I told my wife its certainly not me looking for that sort of content…
This article on the BBC made my laugh…https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/0b911bab-3be7-481a-8eec-380587206772
And at the same time we’ve got the flockin’ government agency complaining that they don’t have the resources to do their flockin’ job.
Even our IRS is far from being compliant with this ruling.
So yeah … as with anything like this it’s hurting the small businesses the most.
Were having a few problems at work and the legality of keeping National Insurance numbers on shared drives. Sure they will figure it out
I can’t deny GDPR has been good to me as I am a consultant working in the field. But have been doing DP stuff for about 20 years so for me it’s just what I do. The problem with small businesses is they are getting a lot of bad advice, and it’s costing them money doing stuff they don’t need to. Larger organisations are finding it costly because of the volume of data they are processing and their poor state of records management. The impact in the UK has been far greater because of the lack of compliance with the… Read more »