Join us at our GDPR Event on April 24th in Northampton

By: Chris McQuade, Operations Manager

The GDPR is fast approaching but is your business ready for the most important change in general data privacy regulation in 20 years?

If your answer is: ‘no’, ‘I don’t know’ or ‘yes, but…’

Then it’s your lucky day.

We’re hosting our very own GDPR event which will assist you in preparing for the new regulation. GDPR: The Nuts & Bolts will take place at the Northampton Marriott Hotel on Tuesday 24^th April 2018.

GDPR: The Nuts & Bolts
Tuesday 24th April 2018
Northampton Marriott Hotel

It will cover the requirements and challenges the new regulation brings as well as how to get your IT systems prepped for May 25^th.

Registrations begin at 9 and the event will be graced by keynote speakers from Howes Percival Solicitors, PCS and HP Inc. The day will be broken up with breakout sessions from industry experts including: Datto, PCS, HP Inc and HPE.

So, come armed with any questions or queries you may have on the new regulation and we’ll assist in turning your GDPR headache into a walk in the park. The day is predicted to finish at about 3:30pm (ish) and places are limited so secure your place by registering today.

Here’s a bit more…

Adverts, social media posts, news articles and other means of marketing. GDPR has well and truly been plastered everywhere imaginable over the past year. The new regulation kicks in on May 25^th but how exactly does it affect you and your business?

Briefly, the GDPR is a set of ‘rules’ you must follow when recording, handling and managing personal data.

What is ‘Personal Data’?

Article 4 of the GDPR states that:

“’Personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’)”

So, for example, the name ‘John Smith’ may not always be considered as ‘personal data’ because loads of people share that name. However, if that name is combined with other data this will usually be enough information to clearly identify this one individual.

This ‘additional’ information includes data like: address, place of work and telephone number.

The above is a very broad description and is by no means extensive of what ‘personal data’ is defined as. But, in a nutshell- if you gather and store information about people with which you come into contact (or seek out for marketing purposes) then it affects you and your organisation.

The new regulation isn’t as daunting as people make it out to be. Most organisations will find it very easy to make a change in practice and that’s if they’re not already following the principles.

Saying this, knowing what changes to make or what route to follow can be the difficult bit. This is where a bit of education doesn’t go a miss.

Whether you know exactly where to start your GDPR journey or haven’t got a clue, we want to help you.

Come to our GDPR Event in April and learn how a few small changes could help your IT systems along the way of its GDPR journey.

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