Safeguarding sensitive information is a critical responsibility that must be taken seriously.
It is the responsibility of every company to protect personal data to which they have access or that they process. If you have a website and your website collects personal data from customers or site visitors, you are required to protect that data in a lawful, fair, and transparent manner. If a third-party processes personal data on behalf of your company, the third party is required to protect that data, and you are required to vet the third party’s technology and processes used to protect the data collected.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), personal data is any information that relates to an individual who can be directly or indirectly identified. It includes, but is not limited to, names, email addresses, phone numbers, location information, ethnicity, gender, biometric data, religious beliefs, website cookies, and political opinions.
In most cases, website visitors who give a company consent to collect and use their data have privacy rights. Children under 13 can only give consent with permission from their parents. Consumers may have the right to be informed of the personal data processed, the right to access the data, the right to correct it, the right to limit the amount of data collected, the right to restrict it, the right to object, and the right to withdraw consent to collect data previously given.
The California Consumer Privacy Act, another data privacy regulation, made changes for 2023 that certain employers and e-commerce business owners must implement immediately.
Beliesol professionals are experts in data privacy compliance under the CCPA, GDPR, and other state and federal data privacy regulations. Regardless of whether you have an established website or application (App) or you are in the middle of developing a website or App, we can make sure your website or application is compliant with data privacy laws and regulations. Contact us to find out more.
