As a business, are you treating your customers´ personal information in accordance with all applicable law.
A new and rapidly evolving area of law that Americans are having a great deal of concern is the adequate protection of sensitive personal data.
New laws have been enacted to protect personal data in the health care, financial services and Internet sectors. If you do business on the Internet, conducting transactions globally, there may be international privacy laws that affect you as well. Additionally, our legislatures are drafting new privacy regulations during each legislative session.
Pepper Law Group advises companies on how to address the privacy issues associated with rolling out global customer and HR databases, implementing intranets, undertaking CRM and targeted marketing/profiling initiatives, establishing extranets, provision of hosted application services, and launching sweepstakes and other promotions.
Best Practices Advice and Counsel
- Privacy policies tailored to your website, business, industry, jurisdiction, and geographic region
- Data security procedures, including security breach notification
- Customer document retention requirements, information sharing, and information disclosure
- Compliance with state, federal and foreign-jurisdiction regulations including GLBA, HIPAA, CAN-SPAM, COPPA, ECPA, and the European Privacy Directives
- Internal practices for maintaining privacy of employment and medical records
- Guidance on conducting lawful employee background checks, including compliance with FCRA/FACTA/ICRAA
- Permissible monitoring of employee conduct and communications
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Negotiate the transaction's privacy and security terms
- Advise on transfer of target company's employee and customer information
- Integrate the target's and acquirer's internal and public-facing privacy policies, data handling policies, and security procedures
- Assess potential liability under state, federal, and international privacy laws
Urgent Requests
- Mitigate security breaches
- Respond to requests for information disclosure
- Implement misconduct investigations
Simply contact us, or schedule a consultation with one of our Privacy Lawyers.