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by germanier 1585 days ago
It's still legal to ask your bookkeeper to go through the books and give you a list of your 10 best selling products broken down by season (given you have all the right paperwork in place with them etc. but no consent of the customers needed).
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kyboren 1585 days ago
Well, it's not necessary to process any personal data in order to calculate that.

Can you ask your bookkeeper to tell you the top 3 best selling products for your top 5 customers without declaring that the purpose of the data transfer to the external bookkeeper is also to run sales analytics?

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germanier 1585 days ago
It is necessary to process personal information for that purpose. That's what the sales records are.

> top 5 customers

You probably have to declare that the data is processed for that purpose in general terms but I don't see why consent would be necessary. Anyway, this analytics service claims it doesn't do this kind of analysis.

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kyboren 1585 days ago
Obviously it depends on the system involved, but there should be no need to touch any column containing personally identifying information in order to calculate aggregate sales statistics for each of your products.
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