Data Protection Compliance
Data Protection is an issue affecting most businesses in the UK: their operations, marketing, HR, IT and even contractual arrangements with clients, suppliers and business partners.
Not only can the penalties be severe for not managing data effectively, but firms often suffer reputational damage as a result of public censure or enforcement action - as 11 high street banks and building societies found out in March 2007 when they were named and shamed by the Information Commissioner, or as the Nationwide Building Society found out when it was fined £980,000 for data security failings by the FSA.
How Do I Know If I Am At Risk?
You are at risk if you can answer Yes to any of the following questions:
Do you transmit data about individuals (customers, clients or staff) between your offices or to other companies, electronically or by post?
Do you employ a lot of staff who have access to data - especially financial data - about individuals?
Is there a high turnover among your staff who have access to data about individuals?
Do you outsource your payroll, telephone marketing, fulfilment, IT support or other activities that mean other companies have access to your data about individuals?
Is any of your outsourced processing carried out abroad?
Have you assessed the risks that might arise from you misidentifying individuals or holding inaccurate data about them?
Do you collect personal data from the public on behalf of your clients?
Do you collect data for marketing from your website or other promotional areas?
Do you sell on marketing prospects to other companies or collect marketing data on their behalf?
How Can We Help?
Compliancy Services can assist you to comply with Data Protection in the following ways:
- Assistance with “notification” to the information commissioner of your data processing status
- Conduct a friendly audit/risk analysis of your business and make clear recommendations as to how to become compliant
- Provision of ‘off the shelf’ Data Protection Training
- Creation of appropriate, bespoked, data protection training and assessment materials for your staff.
Our training will relate the business in which your staff operate and the jobs that they do, to the data protection rules that they should follow. We can also provide automated, online follow-up assessments so you can ensure that they remain competent, providing you with the confidence you need that you business is compliant with the Data Protection Act
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