data protection and privacy

Data protection audits:

• Initial UK/EU notification and registration
• Reviewing and assessing compliance and providing ‘best practice’ advice including data retention
• Ensuring clients’ systems and processes meet relevant standards for sensitive personal data

Contractual and practical data protection issues:

• Data protection contractual issues in IT projects; private/public sector outsourcing and corporate mergers, sales and acquisitions
• Cookies, web crawlers, spamming and security; location based services
• Customer lists and databases and preparing privacy policies, notices and procedures

Use of personal data in marketing:

• Advice on sales and direct marketing and managing customer databases
• ‘Opt-in’/‘opt-out’ issues between the EU and the USA

Jurisdiction issues and cross-border personal data transfers:

• Intra-group and company transfers to/from the EEA: consents, safe harbors, model clauses , binding corporate rules and codes of conduct
• Cross border transfers to third party – contractual mechanisms for compliance

Subject access requests:

• Assisting clients on dealing with, and establishing procedures for, subject access requests

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