DATA SECURITY & PRIVACY POLICY

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CONTENTS

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1. Policy brief & purpose

2. Scope 

3. Data Protection Policy Coverage

4. Policy elements

5. Actions 

6. Third Party Software Security Policy

7. Disciplinary Consequences

8. Contact

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1. Policy brief & purpose Maintaining the security and integrity of customer data is a high priority and we endeavour to maintain appropriate administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard personal data against loss, theft, and unauthorised uses or modifications. Root Digital Network LLC’s Data Protection Policy refers to our commitment to treat information of employees, customers, stakeholders and other interested parties with the utmost care and confidentiality. With this policy, we ensure that we gather, store and handle data fairly, transparently and with respect towards individual rights.

 

2. Scope This Policy applies to all Root Digital Network LLC’s employees, contractors, vendors, interns, associates, customers and business partners who receive personal information from Root Digital Network LLC, who have access to personal information collected or processed by Root Digital Network LLC, or who provide information to Root Digital Network LLC, regardless of geographic location. All employees of Root Digital Network LLC are expected to support the privacy policy and principles when they collect and/or handle personal information, or are involved in the process of maintaining or disposing of personal information.

 

3. Data Protection Policy Coverage Employees of Root Digital Network LLC must follow this policy. Contractors, vendors, interns, associates, customers and business partners are also covered. Generally, our policy refers to anyone we collaborate with or acts on our behalf and may need occasional access to data. We expect you to contribute to the security culture of our company by following appropriate security policies and procedures, completing assigned trainings, and reporting suspected incidents to relevant incident response contacts promptly.

 

4. Policy elements As part of our operations, we need to obtain and process information. This information includes any offline or online data that makes a person identifiable such as names, addresses, usernames and passwords, digital footprints, photographs, social security numbers, financial data etc. We keep records of your personal data no longer than necessary for the purpose for which we obtained them and for any other permitted compatible purposes, including compliance with legal obligations in the field of employment law. Root Digital Network LLC collects this information in a transparent way and only with the full cooperation and knowledge of interested parties. Once this information is available to us, the following rules apply.

Data will be:

• Accurate and kept up-to-date

• Collected fairly and for lawful purposes only

• Processed by the company within its legal and moral boundaries

• Protected against any unauthorized or illegal access by internal or external parties

 

Data will not be:

• Communicated informally

• Stored for more than a specified amount of time

• Transferred to organizations, states or countries that do not have adequate data protection policies

• Distributed to any party other than the ones agreed upon by the data’s owner (exempting legitimate requests from law enforcement authorities) In addition to ways of handling the data Root Digital Network LLC has direct obligations towards people to whom the data belongs.

 

Specifically we must:

• Let people know which of their data is collected

• Inform people about how we’ll process their data

• Inform people about who has access to their information

• Have provisions in cases of lost, corrupted or compromised data

• Allow people to request that we modify, erase, reduce or correct data contained in our databases

 

5. Actions To exercise data protection Root Digital Network LLC is committed to:

• Restrict and monitor access to sensitive data

• Develop transparent data collection procedures

• Train employees in data privacy and security measures

• Use SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) to exchange data

• Establish clear procedures for reporting privacy breaches or data misuse

• Include contract clauses or communicate statements on how we handle data

• Establish data protection practices (secure data transfer, NDAs with contractors and business partners, limited employee access, data encryption, secure emails, document shredding, secure locks, frequent backups, access authorization etc.)

 

6. Third Party Software Security Policy We will also seek to ensure that any third-party service providers we use to administer our Human Resources programmes, are bound to maintain confidentiality when handling your personal data on our behalf, in a manner that is consistent with this Policy. Please find below Data Privacy Policy link for review – 

 

7. Disciplinary Consequences All principles described in this policy must be strictly followed. A breach of data protection guidelines will invoke disciplinary and possibly legal action. Any individual who accesses, uses or manages Root Digital Network LLC's information is responsible for reporting data breach and information security incidents immediately to the contact below.

 

8. Contact To exercise your data subject rights, or if you have questions about this Policy or report a data breach incident, please send an email to: root@rootdigitalnetwork.com