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20 February 2018
Storage of professional and client contact data is critical within our business. With this comes a requirement for responsibility, trust and transparency, to build our reputation as a safe and reliable business partner. Atlas operates 21 offices in 15 countries and safe transfer and storage of data is at the core of our business processes.
How will the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) affect you, our professionals and clients? What is Atlas doing to ensure the continuation of our services and at the same time adhere to the enhanced GDPR regulations?
GDPR – What is it?
The General Data Protection Regulation has been passed with the primary objective of enabling individuals (EU citizens and Residents) to ‘take back control’ of what and how their personal information is stored. It also addresses the processing of personal data of EU-citizens outside the EU and aims to simplify the regulatory environment for international businesses by unifying the regulation within the EU.
Storing personal data
As an organization providing specialist recruitment and HR services, Atlas Professionals naturally obtains, stores and transfers a huge amount of data that falls under GDPR. As data is at the heart of our business, we welcome the enhanced GDPR and view it as an opportunity to review and improve our already secure controls and processes. Our professionals and clients can rest assured, Atlas takes its corporate values seriously (we are proactive, we are compliant), and have placed data privacy and security at the top of our priorities.
GDPR Compliance Task Force
Atlas has gathered subject-matter experts from across the company to create a “GDPR Compliance Task Force”. The multi-disciplinary team will focus on data handling, data processing and storage, and the equally important education of our operations teams. This investment in our operational teams will not only ensure that any new processes are understood and adhered to, but will also ensure that sound and accurate advice is shared with our professionals and clients where needed.
Atlas’ Chief Information Officer, Luuk Kornelius says, “As we make progress with our internal CRM database to be GDPR compliant, our Compliance Task Force and Development Team are working hard to ensure that our professionals and clients have controlled and readily-available access to their personal data. The Task Force and the Atlas Executive Board are committed to ensuring that Atlas Professionals are at the frontier of development and innovation during this new challenging phase of regulatory changes effecting each and every one of us”.