e-Privacy and Online Data Protection 2nd ed

This new second edition will answer the following questions with confidence and clarity:

• Does my website gather data in an effective and legal way?
• Can I lawfully send marketing emails and other communications to my customers and prospective customers?
• What does “fair and lawful processing” of data entail?
• Do I need a Privacy Policy and if so, what should it contain?
• How does the Information Commissioner’s Employment Code affect my business?
• Can I read my employees’ emails and internet details at work and control their blogs and on–line pages?
• How can I minimise liability for staff misuse of email?
• How can I ensure safe and legal transfer of data outside the UK?
• Contains E-privacy guidance notes from the Information Commissioner’s Office

It is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing 13 useful Precedents:

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• •Opt-out and opt-in
• Confidentiality agreement between data controller and data processor
• Data processing agreement with Internet Service Provider
• Variation to existing agreement with Internet Service Provider
• Data processing agreement with Internet Service Provider based outside the European Economic Area
• Standard contractual clauses for transfers of personal data outside the European Economic Area
• Standard contractual clauses for transfers of personal data to a signatory of the United States ‘Safe Harbor’ programme
• Notice and disclaimer for e-mail footer
• Employee code of conduct for the use of communication
• Variation to employment contract regarding the code of conduct for the use of communications
• Communication regarding updates to the Privacy Policy
• Standard data protection warranties for corporate transactions

Together these precedents - and the many other priceless insights included in the Special Report - provide a definitive understanding of the issues involved, and an essential resource for everyone affected by them.