Skip to main content

Privacy notice

Privacy Notice

1.      As a sole trader, I am the data controller for my business.

2.      I control and process data as necessary for the purposes of meeting my contractual obligations and pursuing legitimate business interests. These include maintaining a register of customers, bidding for offers, invoicing, accounting and offering my services to potential customers who have provided their contact details. If I use customer contact details for offering my services, the customer will have a chance to opt out of any communications.

3.      The data I store may include personal data provided by customers, usually names and email addresses, that relate to the customer relationship between myself and the customer.

4.      I store information that may contain personal data, such as backup copies of work files, translation memory files and emails, electronically on devices and systems that are password protected. I only use cloud servers that meet the requirements of the General Data Protection Act. Any paper copies that contain personal data, such as contracts, are stored securely.

5.      I delete personal data either at the end of the customer relationship or at the end of the statutory period for keeping data, for example for accounting and taxation purposes, whichever is sooner.
I have a Data Processing Agreement in place with any contractors I use, such as editors, proofreaders and accountants, if the material I send to them contains personal data.

Comments

Post a Comment

I'd love to hear from you, you can leave a comment here:

Popular posts from this blog

Notes from Finland - Height of summer

There went the April showers and darling buds of May. I can't get over the fact how similar the plant life, and the seasons, are in Helsinki and in Sheffield. It just shows how 'Finland' for me has meant ' North Karelia ' or possibly 'Lapland' at a stretch. I roll my eyes when immigrants and visitors make assumptions about Britain; how they take one area or group of people to represent such a diverse country. And now I find myself doing just that about the place where I was born. Ilosaarirock 2019 Saturday about 24,000 people. We're on the train, on our way to spend a weekend in mummola,  aka my parents. And I get to go to Ilosaarirock . I don't want to make jokes about early onset dementia but for the life of me I can't remember whether I've been before. Only recently I insisted that I'd seen ZZ Top in Puistoblues but when I checked the dates I realised there was no way I could have been there. At least I'll keep some memorie
Post a Comment
Read more

Notes from Finland: Spring 2020

28 May 2020 at 10.30pm I hadn't been out tonight so I decided to go for a quick ten minute walk in the evening sun. It's the lightest time of the year and after an overcast day we got a gorgeous, bright evening. The bird cherry is in bloom and I've just seen the first strawberry flowers in the woods, probably some garden escapees because they were too big for wild plants. Lily-of the-valley covers the forest floor, with the last of the wood anemones peaking through the leaves. Nearby woods on 27 May, favourite time of the day About life in Helsinki this spring I seriously thought about writing something that did not even mention, you know, the virus. But that would have been dishonest since it has affected our lives in so many ways. I'd been getting this nagging feeling that I should be recording the current events. That feeling's been alleviated a great deal since I realised everybody is doing it: photographers taking snapshots of daily life, a lo
Post a Comment
Read more

Notes from Finland - First impressions

And here I am, in a commuter train, looking at the snow falling on rooftops and birch branches. Learning to use my new phone with freezing fingers. In Helsinki, on my way to a new job. First impressions I usually stay in Finland for around six weeks every year with friends and family. But now we have a flat in the suburbs of Helsinki and are straddling two countries. For me, it's back to Finland for real after twenty years. Living here makes you look at things in a different light. Like noticing how twenty below zero doesn't stop people from wearing fake leather trousers, long sparkly nails or cowboy boots. And after a long search I remember snowboots are sold on a different aisle in the supermarket, not where they have normal shoes. But most importantly, air in our flat is so dry our clothes are ready to wear in a few hours after washing. Even after taking a shower there's no condensation running down the windows. And the radiators are not even warm! I don't know
Post a Comment
Read more