How to Protect Your Personal Data from Graydon’s Data Selling Practices

But yes. If you register, you will receive a letter from the next day Graydon with something along the lines of ‘We’re going to make your data visible to anyone willing to pay a few cents for it’. As far as I know it is withdrawal is not possible. Edit: This is the letter.

I provided a phone number from a disposable SIM for the last time, I don’t feel like doing all those marketing calls anymore. You have to pay to be in the Trading Register, then also pay for a segment (SQL query> automatic email, that’s 16 euros kthxbye) and to top it all off, the Trading Room will be just selling your data. Unbelievable and good that something is being done about it.

Another relevant piece from their page’About your dates‘:

To be forgotten/overlooked

You have the right to be “forgotten” in our database and therefore have your personal data deleted. For our “Market Intelligence” service, this is a full right and we will no longer use your data for marketing purposes upon your request.

For our other services, this is not an absolute right and Graydon uses a legitimate interest to process your company’s personal data. For this purpose, we have prepared a general assessment of interests in advance and carefully weighed your interests as a data subject against the legitimate interests of Graydon and its customers.

It is indeed possible that in your case your personal interests will outweigh the interests of Graydon and its customers, and as a result we will have to delete your personal data. Do you think your interests are more important? Please contact us via the contact form on this page so we can reconsider the weight of interests. We need your special interest to do this assessment again. So don’t forget to add this.

I checked the mailbox and emailed the following to avg@graydon.nl, with their response below:

Sir/Madam,

You use my personal data for marketing purposes. I object to this and request that you stop using my data immediately. For my request I rely on Articles 12 and 21, second paragraph, of the General Data Protection Regulation.

I would like to receive a written response from you within a month. In this response you indicate what steps you have taken so that you do not use my personal data for a longer period of time
marketing purposes.

Yours sincerely,

Their response:

Dear Mr XXX,

Thank you very much for your message. It is indeed true that we have included your registration with the Chamber of Commerce in our database. From your message we understand that you object to the processing of your company’s data for direct marketing purposes and therefore we will not contact you in the future regarding the promotion of our services.

Blablabla, nothing else,

Given the above, we conclude that Graydon and our customers have a legitimate interest in (continuing to) process your business’s personal data.

[Reactie gewijzigd door nehal3m op 8 mei 2024 18:34]