Find out about your obligations and how to comply, including protecting personal information, and providing access to official information.
Practical advice about protecting your personal information and how to exercise the rights available to you.
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‘Baking’ data protection into your processing activities. A talk for data controllers.
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The Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 gives citizens important personal information rights. The Jersey Law places obligations on how both the public and private sectors process personal information.
You share your data every time you sign up for an APP, use Instagram or Snapchat, or visit a website. Here is tailored advice on keeping your personal information safe in a highly connected world.
We have created easy-to-follow guides to walk you through a variety of data protection and freedom of information aspects.
The Jersey Law applies to both the public and private sectors. It protects the individual in the face of massive technological change and helps to generate trust in the digital economy.
A personal data breach means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data.
Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 (DPJL) requires you to put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to implement the data protection principles and safeguard individual rights. This is ‘data protection by design and by default’.
This guidance note contains the Commissioner’s guidance on registration under the DPAJL. Registration is a statutory requirement and every controller and processor must register with the Authority.
Good information handling makes good business sense. You'll enhance your business's reputation, increase customer and employee confidence, and by making sure personal information is accurate, relevant and safe, save both time and money.
You have the right to find out if an organisation is using or storing your personal information.
This infographic identifies whether or not you need a Data Protection Officer.
This guidance provides explanations about the definitions used in the law, to help individuals understand their rights and to provide guidance to organisations about how they must process personal information.
The rights and duties set out in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 (DPJL) are designed to apply generally, but there are some exemptions from, and modifications to, various provisions of the DPJL.
