Why join the Smooth Pilot Programme? SMOOTH is the first tool being explicitly targeted to small businesses, the most vulnerable EU enterprises to fail GDPR adoption. Through the registration, your small business can become a beta tester of the platform and verify if it is compliant with the GDPR. It will take you only a…
Today we are joined by Thomas Wilczek, the Project Manager for SMOOTH at FundingBox, one of the SMOOTH project partners, and an expert in funding opportunities provided by European and international institutions for small business and start-ups in Europe. Thomas has agreed to join us today to let us know his insights about how SMOOTH…
I am a small business owner. How GDPR will affect my efficiency? Business benefits from being compliant with GDPR include a more targeted communication with costumers, avoiding the loss from tracking uninterested users, hence having a strong impact on your business’ efficiency. GDPR, in fact, ensures to your business easier-to-use data, letting your company identify…
As a micro-enterprise you are close to your clients and trust and confidence are key in your relationship with them. Thanks to these relationships, your clients and your entrepreneurship, you and other European small and medium-sized enterprises add more than 20% of value to the European economy [1], for a total amount of 1,525 trillion…
Most of the small European companies store their operational data using different databases. Those databases can start from a simple Excel file in a physical shop that only needs the contacts of its providers, but they can also be complex MySQL structures, a Relational Database Management server which manages many databases at the same time.…
Well, that is exactly why they call the “I read and accept” the biggest lie on the web. Research has shown that if an average American would read all the privacy policies of websites she visits, she would spend 244 hours a year just doing that [1]. Even more, to do so, you need an…
Several months have passed since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been implemented and you probably already know what it is. But, how is your company doing regarding it? What does the GDPR really represent? GDPR redefines how data should be collected, stored and shared across every sector, from healthcare to banking and beyond,…
All of us have been at least once frustrated by the fact that every website we visit requires us to click on a consent or cookie dialog and pop-ups. Cookies are a technology used for decades to allow websites to offer a more personalized user experience (UX), to authenticate users and also to analyze…
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with its implementation date, 25 May 2018, was the source of concerns among Latvians. The worries were partially due to prejudice concerning the minimum activities permitted. Most of the people thoughts every kind of data processing would be prohibited under the new data protection rules. Here is a series…
The presence of organisations on the internet is constantly increasing and micro-enterprises are not an exception. There are many micro-enterprises providing their services online; from traditional businesses undertaking a digital transformation, to tech start-ups born in the digital age. However, due to the lack of resources, many micro-companies struggle with the General Data Protection Regulation…