Disclaimer: This post does not serve as legal advice and should be considered only as guidelines in your GDPR or China cyber-security planning. Therefore you should work with your legal counsel to make the right decisions based on your business needs and circumstances.
What is GDPR?
General Data Privacy Regulation, or GDPR, takes effect on May 25, 2018. Then the legislation will had a big impact on the way marketers approach their work and the way organizations obtain, store, manage or process the personal data of EU citizens. Even though NiHao Cloud stores its user data outside of the EU, the new law still applies to us, and thus our services comply with GDPR regulations.
How we keep your data safe
Data security has always been the top priority for Sesamedisk by NiHao Cloud. When designing, deploying and maintaining our network, services and applications, we strive to offer solutions that meet the industry’s strictest privacy regulations. Here is how we are compliant with GDPR:
1. Infrastructure:
We choose the biggest and most secure hosting partner AWS (Amazon Web Services) to setup Sesamedisk by NiHao Cloud platform. Now, we ensure a maximum security of you personal data by utilizing AWS tools and services in areas that are applicable for Sesamedisk by NiHao Cloud. Therefore your data is secured by AWS and their GDPR ready compliance certificates: Learn more on how Amazon AWS helps us conform GDPR:
2. Sesamedisk by NiHao Cloud Service:
Sesamedisk by NiHao Cloud only collects essential data to provide professional services for our users/customer. here we include users ID/name, email address, device type & IP. so, this data can be seen by every organization administrator, as required by GDPR.
When users delete their accounts from Sesamedisk by NiHao Cloud and unsubscribe from marketing mailing lists, we do not keep email addresses and you will not receive any more communications from us.
3. List of Vendors
Sesamedisk by NiHao Cloud has carefully chosen 3rd party marketing and support vendors that comply with GDPR.
- Websites: are based on current tech that is compliant with GDPR.
- Support & Chat: We use support & chat system provided by Zendesk. Learn more about how they abide by GDPR on their website :
- Cloud Mailing Notifications: NiHao Cloud uses Drip to send important notifications regarding service and educational or promotional emails. Learn more on how Drip conforms GDPR via their website.
Recommended Resources
Below are a few links for you to assess your own company policies regarding general data collection:
Read the official guidelines here.
This Hubspot post is a good "in normal English" summary of what GDPR means for online marketing.