General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) 鈥� Your responsibilities
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- General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) 鈥� Your responsibilities
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The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) comes into effect on 25 May 2018. It represents a significant change to data protection legislation. The changes will affect how we:
- Collect personal data.
- Process it.
- Interact with the owners of that data (the data subjects).
Who is responsible for the GDPR?
We all are. Every colleague whose role involves the management and / or handling of personal data should be aware of the new regulations and in some cases, may need to change how they work to ensure that their handling of personal data is compliant with the GDPR.
Once your data capture is complete, you should download your data into a database / Excel sheet etc., secure it by password protecting it, and only share it with appropriate colleagues if needed.
To help to ensure compliance on CMS forms
You can set a max number of days for the posts to be held for after which they鈥檙e automatically deleted.聽This should be done on existing forms anyway as, after this has been set, new posts will be subject to the new rule. Please see below settings on the form.
How has the University prepared for the change?
The University has created a GDPR Task Force to implement our new Data Management Strategy which sets out the necessary steps to comply with the new regulations: