GDPR one year on – time for a review

Last May we were faced with a ‘frenzy’ of email activity with businesses trying to get our consent to keep marketing to us. Companies we had never heard of before were asking to ‘keep in touch’ and conversely businesses who we had already given our consent to were emailing us to get re-consent, ‘just in […]
Your privacy policy – review it now

Whilst tax season has come and gone for another year, there is little time for accountants to rest on their laurels. Attentions now turn to undertaking non-tax return work for clients and in many cases reviewing and running the practice. Now is also the best time to review your privacy policy. Why? Over the past […]
Proposed new ePrivacy Regulations make GDPR look easy!

Many practices are still working through their GDPR action plans, but the forthcoming ePrivacy Regulation (ePR) could make the GDPR seem like child’s play in comparison, especially for B2B companies. The GDPR replaced the Data Protection Act and in the near future the ePR will replace the Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulations (PECR). A year […]
GDPR and marketing (the story so far)

Ahead of the 25 May have you considered/actioned the following points to make sure your marketing activities will comply with the new General Data Protection Regulations: Confirmed your data processing and storage processes and updated your privacy notices accordingly? Checked that no-one on your current email, mailing, text or phone lists have asked not to […]
GDPR and B2B Marketing – don’t panic!
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past 12 months, you should be aware of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force on 25 May 2018. Whilst much has already been documented about these forthcoming rules to data protection, there also seems to be a lot of contradiction going […]