Policy Brief & Purpose
Our Data Protection Policy refers to our commitment to treating the information of employees, customers, stakeholders, and other interested parties with the utmost care and confidentiality. With this policy, we ensure that we gather, store, and handle data reasonably, transparently, and with respect for individual rights.
Scope
This policy applies to all parties (employees, job candidates, customers, suppliers, etc.) who provide us with information.
Who Is Covered Under The Data Protection Policy?
This policy applies to employees of our company and its subsidiaries, contractors, consultants, partners, and any other external entity. Generally, our policy refers to anyone we collaborate with or acts on our behalf who may need occasional access to data.
Policy elements
As part of our operations, we need to obtain and process information. This information includes any offline or online data that makes a person identifiable, such as names, addresses, usernames and passwords, digital footprints, photographs, social security numbers, financial data, etc.
Our company transparently collects this information only with the full cooperation and knowledge of interested parties. Once this information is available to us, the following rules apply. Our data will be:
- Accurate and kept up-to-date
- Collected fairly and for lawful purposes only
- Processed by the company within its legal and moral boundaries
- Protected against any unauthorized or illegal access by internal or external parties
Our data will not be:
- Communicated informally
- Stored for more than a specified amount of time
- Transferred to organizations, states, or countries that do not have adequate data protection policies
- Distributed to any party other than the ones agreed upon by the data's owner (exempting legitimate requests from law enforcement authorities)
In addition to ways of handling the data, the company has direct obligations towards people to whom the data belongs. Specifically, we must:
- Let people know which of their data is collected
- Inform people about how we'll process their data
- Inform people about who has access to their information
- Have provisions in cases of lost, corrupted, or compromised data
- Allow people to request that we modify, erase, reduce, or correct data contained in our databases
Actions
To exercise data protection, we're committed to:
- Restrict and monitor access to sensitive data
- Develop transparent data collection procedures
- Train employees in online privacy and security measures
- Build secure networks to protect online data from cyberattacks
- Establish clear procedures for reporting privacy breaches or data misuse
- Include contract clauses or communicate statements on how we handle data
- Establish data protection practices (document shredding, secure locks, data encryption, frequent backups, access authorization, etc.)
Our data protection provisions will appear on our website.
Disciplinary Consequences
All principles described in this policy must be strictly followed. A breach of data protection guidelines will invoke disciplinary and possibly legal action.