<div>If you want to use foreign servers & services to store customer data there are ways around it under data protection.</div><div><br></div><div>US companies can certify as 'Safe Harbour' <a href="http://export.gov/safeharbor/">http://export.gov/safeharbor</a> that will allow for transfer of data under data protection from the EU <> US. </div>
<div><br></div><div>For instance MailChimp is complies with the EU Safe Harbor framework and for added bonus is also registered with the UK Information Commissioner. <a href="http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/">http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/</a> (see points X. & XI.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 October 2011 02:15, Mark Blackman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@blackmans.org">mark@blackmans.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><div class="im"><div>On 21 Oct 2011, at 09:47, Christian Batchelor wrote:</div></div><div class="im"><blockquote type="cite"><div><font color="#000000"><br></font>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? <br>
If you have been forced to UK providers, who are you using and how easy is to integrate with them using Rails?</div></blockquote><br></div></div><div class="im"><div>Try <a href="http://www.dotmailer.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.dotmailer.co.uk/</a></div>
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