Collecting Personal Information

  • Clients are required to provide personal information that has been lawfully obtained (included in contract terms)

  • Obtain consent whenever possible

  • Only keep information that is required to complete the job

Requirements for Personal Information

As part of your employment with Honestally, you may receive or collect Personal Information about a client, or an employee (or potential employee) of a client.

Has the Personal Information been collected lawfully?

As part of our client engagement process, we require our clients to confirm that any Personal Information they provide to us in respect of another individual has been lawfully obtained and may be provided to us. This confirmation should include an indemnity from the client in our favour, if the receipt or collection of the Information is found to be unlawful.

If you become aware of information that has been collected unlawfully, you should immediately notify the managing director who will arrange the destruction of the personal information.

Can we obtain consent?

Where our client is unable to provide us information that we require, we should, where possible, endeavour to obtain the consent of the individual of which the information pertains.

Do we need the Personal Information to complete the job?

Where we have received Personal Information about a person that we do not need to conduct our job, we should destroy such Personal Information immediately.

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