Reply to: Contract curtailed due to no fault by me

[cojak]

As the OP has decided to end this thread I'm locking it.

[WTFH]

I logged in with my personal email address and read Company D's privacy policy which was not something I agreed to but it said as I had logged in and registered I had accepted their privacy policy - it was Company C that had registered me without my knowledge or consent

When you say you logged in, do you mean you entered your email address, perhaps with a password and then clicked OK?
Generally, when you log in to a website, you are accepting their terms and conditions.


For example, when you created your account here, you accepted terms an conditions, including these:
Bulletin Board Terms and Conditions :: Contractor UK


We could do with more information about what you actually did.

[SueEllen]

I came here as I expected this to be a helpful forum - not petty responses like boo hoo.... or As you are a moderator can you please remove the complete thread and delete my profile - kind regards.

Actually we were helpful by telling it to you straight rather than telling you what you wanted to hear.

What you are unable to see with your navel grazing - is that everyone on here is a contactor for various reasons, which means some people have personal experience of the laws you are p*ssing around with.

[jmo21]

Yes you are correct.

Come on, don't go in the huff, tell us what the specific issue was about data protection. Please!

[v33net]

There's your second mistake

Yes you are correct.

[jmo21]

I came here as I expected this to be a helpful forum

There's your second mistake

[jmo21]

Thanks for your professional response of deleting your original post when you didn't get the answer you wanted to read on here.

Person gets panned for daft situation they have got themselves into, whines about commentators being "professional" - not the first time we've seen it.

[v33net]

Thanks for your professional response of deleting your original post when you didn't get the answer you wanted to read on here.

I came here as I expected this to be a helpful forum - not petty responses like boo hoo.... or As you are a moderator can you please remove the complete thread and delete my profile - kind regards.

[SueEllen]

Thanks for your professional response of deleting your original post when you didn't get the answer you wanted to read on here.

Unfortunately this like other forums cannot prevent people deleting the cr*p they start the thread with.

[WTFH]

It was the lack of their communication about the whole thing but thanks for your professional response. I hope you never have your identity forged in the future.

Thanks for your professional response of deleting your original post when you didn't get the answer you wanted to read on here.

[jmo21]

It was the lack of their communication about the whole thing but thanks for your professional response. I hope you never have your identity forged in the future.

Big boy/girl pants on, consider me chastised.

I thought it was something in the data policy you were not happy about, not the lack of communication?

And for the record, of course I hope I don't have my identity forged, but losing a gig because someone tries to introduce a timesheet company seems a little of an over-reaction without specifics.

[v33net]

"due to no fault by me"......hysterical.

So you lost a gig because you took a stand against a data privacy issue, well done you!

It was the lack of their communication about the whole thing but thanks for your professional response. I hope you never have your identity forged in the future.

[v33net]

This is a really stupid reason to lose a gig over. Some company has your name and email address, boo hoo.

You've also lost a lot of face with the client. They won't be reaching out to you for future work.

Thanks for you professional response.

[v33net]

If you are going to argue about the data protection breach then that's a fairly easy one - discuss the situation with the data protection officer at whichever company you are accusing of the breach. Escalate to ICO as necessary.

Thanks - I have done that and I am in contact with the Agents legal team and the ICO. I am surprised on this site how many response I have had that don't seem to think Privacy of your data is something to worry about. When you have had your identity forged you soon look at it differently

[v33net]

You are picking the wrong way to fight.

You don't wait until you are binned to talk to people you talk to them immediately the problem occurs.

So if you get a contract and don't like it, speak up before you sign it. If you can't get the contract amended you don't accept it and be prepared to walk. You also make sure any verbal communications are backed up in writing e.g email. If you do use email ensure that a copy is retained in your business email account.

Oh and regarding data I once had a contract which said they wanted to send my data to India unless I opted-out. So I opted-out while the contract was being negotiated. However I know some of my personal data is in India thanks to the likes of BT and certain banks.

Hi, as soon as I found out about it I mentioned to everyone involved but nothing has happened.