Company data protection policy

The Data Protection Policy emphasizes the company's commitment to treating information with care and confidentiality. It ensures data is gathered, stored, and handled transparently, respecting individual rights. The policy covers employees, contractors, partners, and other entities needing occasional data access.

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This data protection policy includes:

1. Definitions of the types of data collected and the parties covered by the policy.

2. Rules for collecting, storing, and handling data, ensuring accuracy, security, and legal compliance.

3. Procedures for reporting data breaches, misuse, and the company’s obligations towards data owners.

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Policy brief & purpose

Our Company Data Protection Policy refers to our commitment to treat 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 fairly, transparently and with respect towards individual rights.

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Scope

This policy refers to all parties (employees, job candidates, customers, suppliers etc.) who provide any amount of information to us.

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Who is covered under the Data Protection Policy?

Employees of our company and its subsidiaries must follow this policy. Contractors, consultants, partners and any other external entity are also covered. Generally, our policy refers to anyone we collaborate with or acts on our behalf and may need occasional access to data.

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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 collects this information in a transparent way and only with the full cooperation and knowledge of interested parties. Once this information is available to us, the following rules apply.

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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

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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)

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Actions

To exercise data protection we’re committed to:

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• 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.

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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.

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