Keeping your client details safe is not only important from a customer wellbeing point of view but it is also a legal requirement of any business owner. The GDPR regulations ensure that businesses take all the necessary steps to keep client data safe and the fines for a breach of data can be incredibly costly. There are a number of ways that you can ensure the safety of your client data and here are just a few of them.
- Levels of access – if you have lots of different departments within your business it is important to think about who needs what level of access to your overall systems and client data. This way you can ensure that people who are not in positions of needing data don’t have access.
- Destroying data – make sure that you have a policy and a process in place for destroying old data. This might mean having a clear out of electronic data that you hold and removing this from your systems or it might be working with a Confidential Waste Disposal Bristol company such as printwaste.co.uk/confidential-shredding/confidential-shredding-bristol/ to have paper copies shredded safely.
- Information – think about what information that you need from your clients and make sure that you don’t ask for information that you don’t need or that isn’t relevant to the products or services that you are offering to that client.