Control over personal data is a fundamental right of every individual. With organizations across the world collecting customer data to enable them to provide services, it becomes important that companies manage data in a transparent manner with the customer’s consent.
GDPR, stands for “General Data Protection Regulation”. It is one of the most important changes made to data privacy regulations in the last two decades. It establishes a new framework for handling and protecting the personal data of EU-based residents and is in effect since May 25, 2018. It provides the citizens of the EU greater control over their personal data and assures them that their information is protected.
Although GDPR is a data protection framework for the citizens residing in the EU, it also applies to all companies that handle personal data of individuals from the EU. Also, in the the event of infringement of these laws, the company can face fines and penalties from 10 million to 20 million dollars or 2% to 4% of the annual revenue of the organization depending upon whichever is higher.
The GDPR encourages businesses to be responsible about an individual’s data. The key principles which the GDPR requires businesses to operate on are:
Lawful transparent processing
Emphasizes transparency for all individuals i.e. when data is collected, businesses must be clear as to why data is being collected and what will it be used for.
Purpose limitation
Collect data, only for the purpose you need it for. That is, data collected for specific purposes/reasons cannot be further processed in a manner incompatible with those purposes/reasons.
Data minimization
Ensure data captured is adequate, relevant and limited. Based on this principle, organizations must ensure they store minimum amount of data required for their purpose.
Accurate processing
Data controllers must ensure information remains accurate, valid and fit for purpose. To comply, organizations must institute processes and policies to address how they maintain data they are processing and storing it.
Limitation of storage
Have control over storage and movement of data within the organization. This includes implementing and enforcing data retention policies, and preventing unauthorised movement and storage of data.
Confidential and secure
An organization collecting and processing data is solely responsible for implementing appropriate security measures to protect the individuals data.
Accountability and liability
Organizations must be able to demonstrate adoption of necessary steps to protect an individual’s personal data, and be able to pull up every step within the GDPR strategy as evidence.
Right to Party
Just kidding! GDPR does not talk about your right to party. But you should be having fun regardless.
This website does not collect personal data from visiting users. It uses standard analytic tools to determine what's been visited the most, how long users stay in each page... But the details collected by the tools cannot be traced to an individual, they simply collect annonymous navigation patterns.
There are a few contact forms in this website, and if you fill and submit one of those, the data will be stored in a database I can access. No other way around it. I need to be able to access the data to read what you've sent, and to contact you back.
If for any reason, you want me to remove all your details from the small database I have, just write me an email at: jorge@aguirre.sexy, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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I don't use cookies myself for any reason, so there's that, I don't really need them, since I can the analytics data I want from this website (number of visitors, pages they visit) without using cookies. If I put cookies in my site, I'll update this accordingly.
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