DataMesh GDPR Compliance Statement

Our Commitment

DataMesh provide high quality services and develops solutions which have to follow and comply with international and regional laws, policies and standards, and GDPR is one of them. DataMesh are committed to ensuring protection of all personal information that we hold, and to provide and to protect all such data. We recognize our obligations in updating and expanding this program to meet the requirements of GDPR.

DataMesh are dedicated to safeguarding the personal information under our control and in maintaining a system that meets our obligations under the new regulations. Our practice is summarized below.

How We Prepared for GDPR

DataMesh have a consistent level of data protection and security across our organization, including but not limited to:

• Policies and Procedures — we have revised data protection policies and procedures to meet the requirements and standards of the GDPR and any relevant data protection laws, covering:
  • Data Protection – our main policy and procedure document for data protection has been revised to meet the standards and requirements of the GDPR. Accountability and governance measures are in place to ensure that we understand and adequately disseminate and evidence our obligations and responsibilities; with a dedicated focus on privacy and the rights of individuals.
  • Data Retention and Erasure – we have updated our retention policy and schedule to ensure that we meet the “data minimization” and “storage limitation” principles and that personal information is stored, archived, and destroyed in accordance with our obligations. We have procedures in place to meet the new “Right to Erasure” obligation.
  • Data Breaches – our procedures ensure that we have safeguards in place to identify, assess, investigate, and report any personal data breach as early as possible. Our procedures have been explained to all employees.
  • International Data Transfers and Third-Party Disclosures – where DataMesh stores or transfers personal information, we have robust procedures in place to secure the integrity of the data. Our procedures include a continual review of the countries with sufficient adequacy decisions, as well as binding rules, or standard data protection clauses for those countries.
  • Subject Access Request (SAR) – we have revised our SAR procedures to accommodate the revised 30-day timeframe for providing the requested information and for making this provision free of charge

• Privacy Notice/Policy – we have revised our Privacy Policy to comply with the GDPR, ensuring that all individuals whose personal information we process have been informed of why we need it, how it is used, what their rights are, who the information is disclosed to and what safeguarding measures are in place to protect their information.
• Obtaining Consent – we have consent mechanisms for obtaining personal data, ensuring that individuals understand what they are providing, why and how we use it and giving clear, defined ways to consent to us processing their information.
• Direct Marketing – we have revised the wording and processes for direct marketing, including clear opt-in mechanisms for marketing subscriptions; a clear notice and method for opting out and providing unsubscribe features on all subsequent marketing materials.
• Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) – where we process personal information that is considered high risk, we have developed stringent procedures for carrying out impact assessments that comply fully with the GDPR’s Article 35 requirements. We have implemented documentation processes that record each assessment, allow us to rate the risk posed by the processing activity and implement mitigating measures to reduce the risk posed to the data subject(s).
• Processor Agreements – where we use any third-party to process personal information on our behalf (i.e. Payroll, Recruitment, Hosting, etc.), we use compliant Processor Agreements and due diligence procedures for ensuring that they meet and understand their/our GDPR obligations.

Data Subject Rights

We provide easy-to-access information via our website and email available of an individual’s right to access any personal information that DataMesh processes about them and to request information about:

• what personal data we hold about them
• the purposes of the processing
• the categories of personal data concerned
• the recipients to whom the personal data has/will be disclosed
• how long we intend to store their personal data for
• if we did not collect the data directly from them, information about the source
• the right to have incomplete or inaccurate data about them corrected or completed and the process for requesting this
• the right to request erasure of personal data (where applicable) or to restrict processing in accordance with data protection laws, as well as to object to any direct marketing from us and to be informed about any automated decision-making that we use
• the right to lodge a complaint or seek judicial remedy and who to contact in such instances.

Information Security and Technical and Organizational Measures

DataMesh take the privacy and security of individuals and their personal information very seriously and take every reasonable measure to protect and secure the personal data that we process. We have robust information security policies and procedures in place to protect personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction.

Contractual commitments

Working in conjunction with our partners and customers, DataMesh are reviewing our contractual commitments and updates them as needed to directly address GDPR requirements. DataMesh have also reviewed its existing contracts to ensure GDPR compliance throughout our product and service team and will continue to conduct due diligence as new suppliers are onboarded.

GDPR Roles and Employees

DataMesh have designated Compliance Officer as our Data Protection Officer (DPO) and have appointed a data privacy team to develop and implement our roadmap for complying with the new data protection Regulation. The team are responsible for promoting awareness of the GDPR across the organization, assessing our GDPR compliance, identifying any gap areas and implementing the new policies, procedures, and measures.

DataMesh understand that continuous employee awareness and understanding is vital to the continued compliance of the GDPR and have involved our employees in our preparation plans.

If you have any questions about our GDPR compliance policies, please contact Data Protection Officer (DPO) at DataProtection@datamesh.com.