Just got an ICO begging letter

[xoggoth]

TheCyclingProgrammer is right. You can also keep customer info for advertising and marketing for your own company.

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

You have no customer contact information, no agency contact information? That has people's names in it and where they work...

There is an exemption if you only keep customer contact details for accounting record keeping purposes.

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

Got one today too. I’d already looked into this ages ago and determined I was exempt as I only keep customer records for invoicing/accounting purposes. I submitted their form to say I’m exempt and hopefully that’s the end of it.

[ladymuck]

They must be doing a scan against company house records, as I also got one yesterday. I filled in the online assessment, and obviously I only store Invoice data which is Core Business and so it said I didn’t need to pay, but I can if I wanted. LOL. Why? Anyhow u must remember to fill in their online exception form, so hopefully they’ll go away for the next decade.

You have no customer contact information, no agency contact information? That has people's names in it and where they work...

[xoggoth]

I got one yesterday. Filled in their self assessment form and was told I didn't need to register. If you don't, just do their sod off form as rawly said.

Object moved

PS Dunno why that link shows "Object moved" but it is a correct link.

[rawly]

They must be doing a scan against company house records, as I also got one yesterday. I filled in the online assessment, and obviously I only store Invoice data which is Core Business and so it said I didn’t need to pay, but I can if I wanted. LOL. Why? Anyhow u must remember to fill in their online exception form, so hopefully they’ll go away for the next decade.

[CatOnMat]

May I refer the honourable member to my original reply?

I'm beginning to think my posts are displaying in white font...

Indeed - I humbly apologise for missing the piece in "white font" (which I now see is less white than I'd noticed originally) and stand duly admonished...

[ladymuck]

Yep. Discussed many times:

https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/...etter-ico.html

https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/...ivacy-fee.html

https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/...egistered.html

The trick is, in Google:
site:www.contractoruk.com/forums ico letter

I tend to find searching via Google filtering by site much more effective, e.g.

site:https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/ ico

retrns 190 results, whereas just search ico in the forum search came back with none

May I refer the honourable member to my original reply?

I'm beginning to think my posts are displaying in white font...

[CatOnMat]

The site search is crap, that's why

I tend to find searching via Google filtering by site much more effective, e.g.

site:https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/ ico

retrns 190 results, whereas just search ico in the forum search came back with none

[BrilloPad]

ICO is such a rip off. ICO said HMRC broke data protection rules for me. And what would they do about it? Nothing.....