GDPR, Privacy policy and website terms and conditions
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Introduction
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) came into force on 25 May 2018.
The new Regulation aims to standardise data protection laws and processing across the EU, giving people greater rights to access and control their personal information.
Our Commitment
Real leadership Consulting as RLC Global and any/or directly linked companies are committed to ensuring the protection of all personal information that we hold and to provide and to protect all such data. We recognise our obligations in updating and expanding this program to meet the requirements of GDPR.
We are dedicated to safeguarding the personal information under our control and in maintaining a system that meets our obligations under the new regulations. Our practice is summarised below.
How We Prepared for GDPR
We already have a consistent level of data protection and security across our organisation, but we have introduced new measures to ensure compliance.
Information Audit — We carried out an audit of information previously held and ensured that it was compliant with the new regulations.
Policies and Procedures — we have revised data protection policies and procedures to meet the requirements and standards of the GDPR and any relevant data protection laws, including:
Data Protection - our main policy and procedure document for data protection has been revised to meet the standards and requirements of the GDPR. Accountability and governance measures are in place to ensure that we understand and adequately disseminate and evidence our obligations and responsibilities; with a dedicated focus on privacy and the rights of individuals.
Data Retention and Erasure - we have updated our retention policy and schedule to ensure that we meet the "data minimisation" and "storage limitation" principles and that personal information is stored, archived and destroyed in accordance with our obligations. We have procedures in place to meet the new "Right to Erasure" obligation.
Data Breaches - our procedures ensure that we have safeguards in place to identify, assess, investigate and report any personal data breach as early as possible. Our procedures have been explained to all employees.
International Data Transfers and Third-Party Disclosures - Currently we do not share any data. Where RLC Global stores or transfers personal information outside the EU, we have a robust review and procedure that would be in place to secure the integrity of the data. These procedures include a continual review of the countries with sufficient adequacy decisions, as well as binding rules, or standard data protection clauses for those countries without.
Subject Access Request (SAR) - we have revised our SAR procedures to accommodate the revised 30-day timeframe for providing the requested information and for making this provision free of charge.
Privacy Notice/Policy - we have revised our Privacy Notice(s) to comply with the GDPR, ensuring that all individuals whose personal information we process have been informed of why we need it, how it is used, what their rights are, who the information is disclosed to and what safeguarding measures are in place to protect their information.
Obtaining Consent - we have revised our consent mechanisms for obtaining personal data, ensuring that individuals understand what they are providing, why and how we use it and giving clear, defined ways to consent to us processing their information utilising only website access, marketing within the site.
Direct Marketing - we have revised the wording and processes for direct marketing, including clear opt-in mechanisms for marketing subscriptions; a clear notice and method for opting out and providing unsubscribe features on all subsequent marketing materials.
Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) - ALl DPIA is carried out within Squarsoace our website and supported by this third party support to maintain and sustain our actions. Where we process personal information that is considered high risk, we have developed stringent procedures for carrying out impact assessments that comply fully with the GDPR's Article 35 requirements. We have implemented documentation processes that record each assessment, allow us to rate the risk posed by the processing activity and implement mitigating measures to reduce the risk posed to the data subject(s).
Processor Agreements - (Currently we do not process this information as of 2022) if and when or where we would use any third-party to process personal information on our behalf (ie Payroll, Recruitment, Hosting, etc), we would draft compliant Processor Agreements and due diligence procedures for ensuring that they meet and understand their/our GDPR obligations.
Data Subject Rights
We provide easy-to-access information via our website of an individual’s right to access any personal information that RLC Global & RLC Technologies processes about them and to request information about:
What personal data we hold about them
The purposes of the processing
The categories of personal data concerned
The recipients to whom the personal data has/will be disclosed
How long we intend to store your personal data for
If we did not collect the data directly from them, information about the source
The right to have incomplete or inaccurate data about them corrected or completed and the process for requesting this
The right to request the erasure of personal data (where applicable) or to restrict processing in accordance with data protection laws, as well as to object to any direct marketing from us and to be informed about any automated decision-making that we use
The right to lodge a complaint or seek judicial remedy and who to contact in such instances.
Information Security and Technical and Organisational Measures
We take the privacy and security of individuals and their personal information very seriously and take every reasonable measure to protect and secure the personal data that we process. We do NOT hold any sensitive personal data any basic or financial data information have robust information security policies and procedures through encryption and all the above actions are in place to protect basic personal information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction.
GDPR Roles and Employees
RLC Global and all partnering RLC companies have a designated Data Protection Officer (DPO)/Appointed Person- email us at info@rlc-global for more information and have appointed a data privacy team to develop and implement our roadmap for complying with the new data protection Regulation. The team are responsible for promoting awareness of the GDPR across the organisation, assessing our GDPR compliance, identifying any gap areas and implementing the new policies, procedures and measures.
We understand that continuous employee awareness and understanding is vital to the continued compliance of the GDPR and have involved our employees in our preparation plans.
If you have any questions about our GDPR compliance policies, please contact us directly at info@rlc-global.com
Last reviewed 2nd January 2022 submitted and checked.