Your GDPR compliance checklist

Getting through the General Data Protection Regulation Whether you’re a business owner, senior manager, or a designated data protection officer, if it’s your job to keep on top of GDPR legislation and ensure your organisation upholds the GDPR compliance requirements, and you sure have a lot on your plate! To give you a helping hand we've put together a GDPR Compliance Checklist that...
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If you use the WordPress Contact Form DB plugin you need to manually upgrade

Without much of a fanfare, Contact Form DB has moved off of the WordPress.org plugin platform and over to code repository service GitHub.com. You can still used Contact Form DB but to you need to do a one-time manual upgrade to make your WordPress website see the new plugin and get its updates in GitHub instead of WordPress.org Download the latest release from Contact Form DB Releases on GitHub...
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WooCommerce 3.4 is now available with GDPR compliance features for your store

WooCommerce, the popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress is now available, after having been in development since January, and includes some essential tools relating to GDPR compliance and your website. While 3.4 is a “minor” release; meaning this version should be backwards compatible with sites running versions of WooCommerce greater than 3.0. It's still recommend that your site is tested...
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The GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation – is here. What should website owners do now?

The new GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation - which came into effect on 25th May this year and replaces the current Data Protection laws across the UK and Europe. It's important that all businesses are aware of what it means for your them, as the consequences of not complying with the new regulations could be severe, with, worse case, fines of up to 20 million Euros for larger companies....
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Data Processing Agreement

Summary This Data Processing Agreement (herein referred to as the “DPA”) forms part of the overall Terms and Conditions of Service and is made and entered into by and between O’Brien Media Limited, who’s registered office is at The Innovation Centre, PO Box 4096, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN5 1DE (Registered in England and Wales number: 07874512), on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries,...
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O’Brien Media has (you guessed it) a new Privacy Policy

I'll keep this short, as you've probably already received no less than 50 of these privacy policy update notifications in the last week alone. We've updated our Privacy Policy, effective May 24, 2018. These changes were made primarily in preparation for the EU's new data privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Nothing is changing about how your information is processed....
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Client Connect Terms and Conditions

Terms and conditions applying to your use of the Client Connect and O'Brien Media websites as a customer or potential customer of O'Brien Media, a Pembroke Digital Limited brand.1. TermsThe term “O’Brien Media” or “us” or “we” refers to “O’Brien Media” a trading name of Pembroke Digital Limited, whose registered office is at Unit 9, Pembroke Centre, Cheney Manor Ind. Estate,...
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Website Analytics Data Processing Agreement

Data Processing Agreement (Addendum) Effective as of May 25th 2018 This GDPR Data Processing Agreement(“DPA”)  (Addendum) forms part of the Terms of Use available at obrienmedia.co.uk/legal/analytics-terms or such other location as the Terms of Use may be posted from time to time (as applicable, the “Agreement”), entered into by and between Customer and O’Brien Media Limited trading...
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Some of the key benefits of SEO in 2018

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a specialised research-driven process of analysing and editing your web site content in order to increase where the pages on your site rank (appear) for specific search terms in search results pages on sites like Bing and Google. By targeting strategic key phrases that appeal to your target audiences, SEO allows you to be found by national, regional, or local...
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