Comments on: GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation Practical Guide for Email Senders

By: LEONBIRD

LEONBIRD — Wed, 29 May 2019 06:32:00 +0000

Excellent post, for those who still do not have any idea about GDPR, i want to to share some useful information. What is GDPR and why is it so important? From 2013, The European Union spent years working incredibly diligently on updating and modernising their data protection law to bring antiquated and irrelevant laws slap bang into the 21st century. What existed previously in the UK was the 1998 Data Protection Act, which was brought about as a measure to implement the European Union’s 1995 Data Protection Directive. Read More: https://seersco.com/articles/what-is-gdpr-and-why-is-it-so-important/

By: Mary Siewierska

Mary Siewierska — Fri, 10 May 2019 11:00:00 +0000

In reply to Zoltan Republic. You have to write why you're contacting them specifically + add an opt-out statement or link: If you want me to change the data I used to contact you, or remove your data from my list, hit reply and let me know.

By: Zoltan Republic

Zoltan Republic — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:21:00 +0000

Hi Cathy, great post, thanks! In short, what are the required info I have to include into my cold email? Thanks

By: ebi john

ebi john — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 12:04:00 +0000

Hi Cathy,

Brilliant and an informative post. I am into conference organising. As a first step we recruit speakers for our conference. We some time use LinkedIn to send a connection request with message on why we are contacting them to speakers asking them to provide their email id to send the invite. In most cases they accept our invite and we get the email ids from their profile. Some times they share their official id. So is it ok to send an email to both who have just accepted my LinkedIn invite and those who have shared their Id. Will this come under Legitimate Interest? If yes should i state in my email disclaimer like how we got their info etc. Looking forward to your reply.

Thanks
Ebi.

By: James Gunn

James Gunn — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 13:02:00 +0000

Hi Woodpeckerites,
What a useful article. I use a powerful scraping tool to collect the emails of target clients. It saves a lot of legwork and it is far easier to delete unsuitable potential recipients than try to find the missing details of (business) customers I’d like to target (ie those I think likely to take up the offer as described above). My campaigns are all as you describe above, as I try to stay within the law / good practice and then I delete the personal data of those who don’t respond.or who request ot be left alone. My question is about the “powerful scraping tool” populates a spreadsheet with about 60 columns and allows me to be much more precise in my targeting. Are you suggesting that scraping tools are unlawful or that indiscriminate use of such tool is unlawful ?
BWs
James

By: Gary Graham

Gary Graham — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:29:00 +0000

Just one quick question if I may.

In regards to the protection of any personally identifiable information that may be collected in regards to email, how are you supposed to be able to assure the subscriber that you are in complete control when all the emails are being handled by a third party autoresponder service of which you have no control of what happens to the data collected other than deleting what is on the service and hoping that the service itself does not retain any of this data?

I hope that there is a relatively simple ansewer.

Thanks
Gary

By: Ratko Ivanović

Ratko Ivanović — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:56:00 +0000

Amazing post Cathy!

Have a question related to follow-ups in cold mailing campaigns. Does GDPR restrict the use of follow-up emails if the person didn’t reply to the first one?

By: Carol Davis

Carol Davis — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:42:00 +0000

Is there a way that I can just exclude recipients from the EU?

By: James

James — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:14:00 +0000

In reply to Cathy Patalas. Brilliant reply. Thank you.

By: Cathy Patalas

Cathy Patalas — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:05:00 +0000

In reply to James.

Hi James, thank you for the kind words about the article and for your question. If you are going to cold email a blogger who is an EU citizen, and you:

1) have a legal basis to contact her, that is the purpose of your email is clearly connected with her business activity, and this contact may bring benefit to you both;