New tool to create privacy notices
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a new tool that can help small businesses create a bespoke privacy notice that protects people’s information rights. Many businesses choose to display this privacy notice on their website.
By law, businesses must explain why it holds people’s information and what it does with it. This allows customers, suppliers, staff and volunteers to know what will be done with their personal information.
Creating a Privacy Notice that includes all that it needs to is time consuming and can be far from most business owners’ comfort zones!
The new tool from the ICO can help create a tailored privacy notice for businesses in various industry sectors. For instance, it includes sections specific to businesses in finance, legal, insurance, education and childcare, health and social care, retail and manufacturing. The tool can also assist charities and volunteer organisations.
The tool can create two different types of privacy notice – one for customers and suppliers, and another for staff and volunteers.
Businesses that already have a privacy notice might like to check that it is up-to-date against the generator. Many were probably created for the introduction of GDPR so may not have been updated in some time!
You can find the privacy notice generator here, on the ICO website.
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