If your business collects personally identifiable information (or PII) about your customers, you will need a privacy policy to let them know how you plan to collect, use, share and secure information about them. In an increasingly digitalized world, privacy policies...
Nearly every organization collects personally identifiable information, or PII. Because of the sensitive nature of many different types of PII, its collection can pose an array of unique challenges, especially for younger or smaller organizations without a dedicated...
UPDATE: Since this article was drafted, the US-EU Safe Harbor program has been shut down. There is now a new regime in place named Privacy Shield. Please see this article for more information. Any company looking to transfer data about users from the European Union...
You’ve done it many times before… you click the box that says “click to agree to our Terms of Use” (and let’s be real – you didn’t read it). Does that check box create a legally binding agreement? What about when companies...
UPDATE: Since this article was drafted, Privacy Shield has been formally adopted and is now in effect. Please see this article for more information. After four months of frantic negotiations, the U.S. and the European Union have a new deal on cross-border data...
