On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:54:16 +0100 "Maf. King" <m...@chilwell.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 13:24:55 BST Colin Law wrote: > > > However I believe that any data that is required for 'contractual' > > reasons is not covered. When one sells anything there is an implicit > > (or explicit) contract so I assume (though I have no qualifications in > > this area) that customer data required for invoices and so on would > > not be covered. However if I were a business with customer data I > > would be asking my legal guy about this. > > > > That is basically what I've been advised. If you sell stuff, then you are > able to hold invoice & delivery details for the purposes of that transaction > (and future transactions too) Also, in the case of the invoice address, > there > is no "right to be forgotten" as it is statutory info that you have to hold > for the tax authorities to inspect (should they wish to). > > What you can't do for example, is use the delivery data to send a marketing > mailshot without prior, documented, explicit consent for that use, and even > then, only is sofar as you have said you would in the privacy policy. > > IANAL, but I don't think this is an issue for GC - indeed, for many years it > was remarkably hard to get customer details out of GC to use for other > purposes! > > Maf. > > Good points and now having read: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/lawful-basis-for-processing/contract/ I'm inclined to agree that this is not an issue for GnuCash. It seems though that I need to document this as part of company policy. Mike E _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
