Data Protection Policy
Data Protection Policy
Direct Response Australia Data Protection Policy outlines our commitment to collect, use and maintain information of employees, clients, clients’ customers (or potential customers), suppliers and other interested parties with the utmost care, transparency, respect and confidentiality.
Employees of our company, contractors, consultants, partners and any other external entity must comply this policy.
Any personal information, whether it be offline or online data, that we obtain and process is covered under this policy.
The information we obtain is subject to the following:
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 unauthorised or illegal access by internal or external parties
The information will not be:
Communicated informally
Transferred to organisations, 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)
Upon request, the following can be provided to the person to whom the data belongs:
Which of their data is collected
How we’ll process their data
Who has access to their information
Allowance for modification, removal, reduction or correction of data contained in our databases
We also have provisions in cases of lost, corrupted or compromised data.
Procedures
The data protection procedures we employ include:
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 cyber attacks
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 (data scrubbing, document shredding, secure locks, data encryption, frequent backups, access authorisation etc.)
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.