When building a website or a blog it is essential to know certain factors such as who the website is aimed at, who will be the customers who will consume the services of the website, the geographic scope, and some other little things that are necessary. But there is one thing that we overlook and is of utmost importance. It is about Data Protection.
It is known that all websites must carry their Legal Notice, their Terms and Conditions section (if necessary) and the Privacy Policy. For this you have two options: That a lawyer or legal department, consultancy and others are responsible for the realization of such content, or the least recommended option for many reasons, copy them from another website and change the owner.
60% of the companies that have put the privacy policy on their website are committing fraud, and falsifying data protection. This is a devastating statistic. And this fraud is that you are saying in the privacy policy of the website that the customer data will be registered in a file, (which is true), which in turn is registered in the Spanish Data Protection Agency (which is not true, this is where the fraud is). The agency’s statistics are based on the fact that you mention something that you are not actually doing. So this should not be taken as a joke.
Data protection is something that goes beyond the Privacy Policy. The law 15/1999 regulates most aspects of access to data by the Web, and added to the LSSI is a perfect manual for a model performance on the Internet. How many times we get emails from addresses that we have not authorized? The repeated practice of this type of sending is punishable by fines of up to 150,000 €. Or how many times have we been sent a mass email, congratulating us on the holidays or whatever and we see that all email addresses come in CC instead of CO? This is also punishable by a fine of about 3,000 euros. Well, these laws regulate this kind of actions.
Recently I met a program that surprised me in a brutal way. It was a software used in the cloud, which managed all the necessary steps to adapt your company to the Data Protection Act and the LSSI. The best of all is that you could even communicate files from the program itself, manage the input and output of media, and even manage and order jobs, as well as workplaces. This program in turn had a section of models, in which appear both the Legal Notice, to copy it to your website or customize it, and the privacy policy of the website and contact forms. Also the signature of the e-mails as well as the link to exercise the Arco rights(Access, Rectification, Cancellation or Opposition). What surprised me most about the software is that it has an option to get subscribers to your newsletter. You load a database with emails, obtained legally, and the software sends all of them a request for acceptance of sending commercial information, and can export the results, and can even load a .html for the first shipment.
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