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TomMacD89
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago
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GDPR Compliance for Personal / Free Accounts

Hi, I work with various charities in the UK who often use free Dropbox accounts to share files for boards of trustees, teams etc. There is some confusion as to whether the GDPR compliance steps ...
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    Mark
    8 years ago
    Hi Tom

    As somebody in the UK the biggest thing you need to make sure is that the end users whos data is being stored is aware of it being stored AND that it is stored outside of the EU. Same goes if they email things in they need to know where those email servers are (e.g. Office365 = USA etc.).
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claires
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

I got very excited when I saw your reply Ed, but as others have said - nothing has changed for those of us who use DropBox professionaly but cannot afford to pay for a business account, which is the only way any of us can currently get a Data Processing Agreement from DropBox.

 

Can you please confirm if DropBox are indeed looking into providing a Data Processing Agreement for those without a business account - as we would like to continue using DropBox if we can, but can only do that if we have a DPA.  If a DPA isn't going to be available, we will need to cancel our DropBox account and go with a provider who will provide a DPA.

 

Many thanks

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