So if I’ve done business with these folks a fair bit before now it’s ok to assume I can continue to email them?
On business related matters. You don’t have to stop emailing your active clients on Saturday. I don’t know what you do, but I think it’s to do with schools as opposed to individuals?
There is a debate at the moment around whether or not a business/work email address is personal information, in strictest since it probably is, but it will be interesting to see how the data protection commissioner interprets it.
It’s usually booked through an individual teacher on their personal or personal school email. Most of these people have booked it for a few years in a row and you’d imagine they’d be sound about it but it only takes one cunt to ruin it for everyone*. If they’ve done business a few times with us surely that’s legitimate interest(I’ve no idea if that makes a difference just read it in your previous post).
*The Weinstein rule
If they booked a service with you each year you would be well entitled to send an “unsolicited” email to them enquiring if they will be booking your service again this year.
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To be honest, the email marketing is only a tiny portion of it. The real responsibility is how you manage the data the school/individuals provide you with.
I’d say thousands of data protection officers have been employed in the last year in preparation for this shit. An IT services company in Dublin that I work with hired a team of 12 to deal with GDPR training and consulting for clients. A gravy train like the millennium bug.
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Surprisingly, I’ve only gotten a handful of these so far. Entertainment.ie are offering me the chance to win a One4All Voucher and a pair of tickets to Castlepalooza if I opt in, the shysters. My favourite one though is the following:
Hi Guys, Just a quick one with the hole GDPR thats going on. If you want to oarry on getting our irregular emails with bad punctuation and the odd spelling mistake here and there please re sign via the box below. With the changes to social reach we rely on bringing you news via our newsletters so please Sign Up Here
I probably won’t opt in.
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I’m branching out into the little cars and helicopters that kids sit in for a euro in shopping centres.
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There’s a fortune to be made from those. It’s 2 euro minimum.
It’s flawed! It costs nothing to sit in them
Typical Mac.
Half of them don’t work in the Crescent.
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The customers?
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Do keep up.
I’m currently doing online training for a GDPR management system in schools. There’s a lot to take in and a lot of responsibility for the assigned data protection officer, Head teacher and head of computing in schools.
Correct, particularly as you are dealing with children’s data. I know the government here were trying to make state bodies, government depts etc exempt from the fines etc, not sure how that went.
No such luck over here. Schools liable for everything.Thankfully this software seems to collate all the systems that are used in schools. Which will alleviate some pressure. It’s the paper based stuff that is causing an issue. As retention of pupil data varies from DoB plus 6years to Time in school to DOB plus 20 years for Special needs pupils.
Once you have your policies and procedures in place and are seen to be doing (or at least trying to do) the right thing then you should be ok.
Yea that’s what the person running the training has said. There’s been a lot of panic from people about it. Most of it is needless. The DfE over here has even said it expects schools to have a lot of internal breaches to begin with!