Introduction

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) came into force on 25 May 2018.

The new Regulation aims to standardize data protection laws and processing across the EU, giving people greater rights to access and control their personal information.

Our Commitment

Scherise Saskia is committed to ensuring protection of all personal information that we hold, and to provide and to protect all such data. We recognize our obligations in updating and expanding this program to meet the requirements of GDPR.

Scherise Saskia is dedicated to safeguarding the personal information under our control and in maintaining a system that meets our obligations under the new regulations. Our practice is summarized below.

How We Prepared for GDPR

Scherise Saskia shall implement the following measures to ensure compliancy with the GDPR requirements.

Data Protection - our main policy and procedure document for data protection has been revised to meet the standards and requirements of the GDPR. Accountability and governance measures are in place to ensure that we understand and adequately disseminate and evidence our obligations and responsibilities; with a dedicated focus on privacy and the rights of individuals.

Data Retention and Erasure - our retention policy shall meet the "data minimization" and "storage limitation" principles and that personal information is stored, archived and destroyed in accordance with our obligations. We have procedures in place to meet the new "Right to Erasure" obligation.

Data Breaches - our procedures ensure that we have safeguards in place to identify, assess, investigate and report any personal data breach as early as possible. Our procedures have been explained to all employees.

International Data Transfers and Third-Party Disclosures - where Scherise Saskia stores or transfers personal information outside the EU, we have robust procedures in place to secure the integrity of the data. Our procedures include a continual review of the countries with sufficient adequacy decisions, as well as binding rules, or standard data protection clauses for those countries without.

Subject Access Request (SAR) - our SAR procedures accommodates the revised 30-day timeframe for providing the requested information and for making this provision free of charge

Privacy Notice/Policy; our Privacy Policy is compliant with the GDPR, ensuring that all individuals whose personal information we process have been informed of why we need it, how it is used, what their rights are, who the information is disclosed to and what safeguarding measures are in place to protect their information.

Obtaining Consent - our consent mechanisms for obtaining personal data ensures that individuals understand what they are providing, why and how we use it and giving clear, defined ways to consent to us processing their information

Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) - where we process personal information that is considered high risk, we have developed stringent procedures for carrying out impact assessments that comply fully with the GDPR's Article 35 requirements. We have implemented documentation processes that record each assessment, allow us to rate the risk posed by the processing activity and implement mitigating measures to reduce the risk posed to the data subject(s).

Processor Agreements - where we use any third-party to process personal information on our behalf (ie Payroll, Recruitment, Hosting, etc), we have drafted compliant Processor Agreements and due diligence procedures for ensuring that they meet and understand their/our GDPR obligations.

Data Subject Rights

We provide easy-to-access information via our website of an individual’s right to access any personal information that we process about them and to request information about:

what personal data we hold about them

the purposes of the processing

the categories of personal data concerned

the recipients to whom the personal data has/will be disclosed

how long we intend to store your personal data for

if we did not collect the data directly from them, information about the source

the right to have incomplete or inaccurate data about them corrected or completed and the process for requesting this

the right to request erasure of personal data (where applicable) or to restrict processing in accordance with data protection laws, as well as to object to any direct marketing from us and to be informed about any automated decision-making that we use

the right to lodge a complaint or seek judicial remedy and who to contact in such instances.

Information Security and Technical and Organizational Measures

Scherise Saskia takes the privacy and security of individuals and their personal information very seriously and takes every reasonable measure to protect and secure the personal data that we process. We have robust information security policies and procedures in place to protect personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction.

GDPR Roles and Employees

Scherise Saskia has appointed a data privacy team to develop and implement our roadmap for complying with the new data protection Regulation. The team is responsible for promoting awareness of the GDPR across the organization, assessing our GDPR compliance, identifying any gap areas and implementing the new policies, procedures and measures.

If you have any questions about our GDPR compliance policies, please us at scherise@andshelived.co.uk

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