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Top GDPR Tips

Here are 5 Top GDPR Tips from the ICO for small and medium sized charities and third sector organisations:

1. Tell people what you are doing with their data
   People should know what you are doing with their information and who it will be shared with. This is a legal requirement (as well as established best practice) so it is important you are open and honest with people about how their data will be used.
2. Make sure your staff are adequately trained
   New employees must receive data protection training to explain how they should store and handle personal information. Refresher training should be provided at regular intervals for existing staff.
3. Use strong passwords
   There is no point protecting the personal information you hold with a password if that password is easy to guess. All passwords should contain upper and lower case letters, a number and ideally a symbol. This will help to keep your information secure from would-be thieves.
4. Encrypt all portable devices
   Make sure all portable devices – such as memory sticks and laptops – used to store personal information are encrypted.
5. Only keep people’s information for as long as necessary
   Make sure your organisation has established retention periods in place and set up a process for deleting personal information once it is no longer required.

GDPR and Merseyside Digital

You can continue your GDPR journey or get further information by checking out the following pages

• What is the General Data Protection Regulation? Read through the fundamentals of what’s involved in GDPR compliance.
• GDPR Online Compliance Service See how an online service can help you through the GDPR compliance maze

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Kevin & the MerseysideDigital Team

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