Data Protection Policy

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Data Protection Policy

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.

Scope

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

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.

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. 

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.

Rev. 03/2025