When you are running a business, it is important to make sure that you are complying with the law. As well as the health and safety requirements and also the finances of the business, something else that needs to be legally compliant is the way that your business stores and handles confidential data.
Confidential data comes in many forms, and it can be confusing for some people, so it is important to have a good understanding of the information that you have and what needs to be treated as confidential. Here are some examples of what confidential data can be:
Details of customers – this could be names addresses and bank details
Information and Records of Staff that your business needs to keep (including medical information)
Company details – This could be the business finances, plans and designs or things like marketing information, or data relating to the business
This information can be stored electronically on computers, or it can be stored on paper. Although many people are now choosing to have a paperless office and more information is being stored on computers, it is likely that you may still have some information that is on paper.
Keeping any of this sort of data well protected using passwords for computers and filing cabinets and safes that can be locked for paperwork, is essential.
When the time comes to destroy this information, this also needs to be done correctly – get a company like this confidential waste disposal Cardiff based company printwaste.co.uk/confidential-shredding/confidential-shredding-cardiff/ to destroy it for you so that you can rest assured it wont fall into the wrong hands.
