Vehicle Weighing Solutions Ltd recognises its duties under current legislation and will endeavour to meet the requirements of this legislation and maintain a data protection working environment.

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All Managers and Supervisors are informed of their responsibilities to ensure they take all reasonable precautions, to ensure the data protection of those that are likely to be affected by the operation of the business.

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Our Company Data Protection Policy refers to our commitment to treat information of employees, customers, stakeholders and other interested parties with the utmost care and confidentiality.

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With this policy, we ensure that we gather, store and handle data fairly, transparently and with respect towards individual rights.

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This policy refers to all parties (employees, job candidates, customers, suppliers etc.) who provide any amount of information to us.

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Employees of our company and its subsidiaries must follow this policy. Contractors, consultants, partners and any other external entity are also covered. Generally, our policy refers to anyone we collaborate with or acts on our behalf and may need occasional access to data.

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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, financial data etc.

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Our company 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.

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Our data will be:

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• 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 unauthorised or illegal access by internal or external parties

Our data will not be:

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• Communicated informally

• Stored for more than a specified amount of time

• Transferred to organisations, 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)

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In addition to ways of handling the data the company 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 will 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

• In support of this Policy a responsibility chart and more detailed arrangements have been prepared.

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The Policy is reviewed on a periodic basis.