[LRUG] Outsourcing Bulk Emailing

[Ben Reyes]

If you want to use foreign servers & services to store customer data there
are ways around it under data protection.

US companies can certify as 'Safe Harbour' http://export.gov/safeharbor that
will allow for transfer of data under data protection from the EU <> US.

For instance MailChimp is complies with the EU Safe Harbor framework and for
added bonus is also registered with the UK Information Commissioner.
http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/ (see points X. & XI.)

So as far as I'm aware this allows you to transfer customer data to
Mailchimp's US servers. I also checked with Rackspace a few years back and
their US based cloud hosting did comply with EU Safe Harbor.

- Ben

http://twitter.com/3en
http://benreyes.com


On 21 October 2011 02:15, Mark Blackman <mark at blackmans.org> wrote:

>
> On 21 Oct 2011, at 09:47, Christian Batchelor wrote:
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> My client says that because of data protection legislation in the UK we
> have to use a UK provider. Has anyone come across this limitation?
> If you have been forced to UK providers, who are you using and how easy is
> to integrate with them using Rails?
>
>
> Try http://www.dotmailer.co.uk/
>
> - Mark
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