A privacy policy for a cloud services provider (updated to cater for the Australian Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR))
Our template includes the following sections:
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When does the Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme come into effect?
It already has. It came into effect on 22 February 2018.
Does the GDPR apply to Australian cloud providers?
Article 3 of the GDPR makes it clear that the GDPR applies to organisations that provide goods or services not only to European Union (EU) citizens – but to any persons while they are in the European Union. It also applies to the monitoring of the behaviour of any persons in the EU. This includes many Australian cloud service providers, including data hosting providers, software-as-a-service (SAAS) and other online platform operators who typically permit access to their cloud services by persons from anywhere in the World with an internet connection, including from Europe.
Does the NDB Scheme apply to all Australian cloud services providers?
See: Entities covered by the NDB scheme
When does the GDPR come into effect?
25 May 2018.
Does the GDPR really prevent cloud providers from engaging upstream hosting providers?
Yes, unless the GDPR is complied with when engaging them.
This template comes with 30 minutes of free telephone legal advice from Arnotts Technology Lawyers. During this time, Arnotts will answer any questions they can about the template, to the extent possible within the 30 minutes allocated.
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