{"id":91607,"date":"2018-05-04T09:27:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T09:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ee71c8cd29c2689cdae4037604670cf6"},"modified":"2018-05-04T09:27:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T09:27:28","slug":"news-story-make-sure-your-charity-is-ready-for-gdpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=91607","title":{"rendered":"News story: Make sure your charity is ready for GDPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>GDPR is a new Europe-wide data protection law to provide greater protection around personal data, and it effects every organisation that handles such data.<\/p>\n<p>If your charity asks for, receives or holds personal information from others (for example the email addresses of its users or staff) then these regulations will apply.<\/p>\n<p>The Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) is the regulator for GDPR.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"understand-the-basics\">Understand the basics<\/h3>\n<p>Get the information that you need and share it throughout your charity. The <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/ico.org.uk\/for-organisations\/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr\/\">ICO guidance about the legislation<\/a> includes all the information you need to understand it.<\/p>\n<p>The ICO have also produced a <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/ico.org.uk\/for-organisations\/charity\/\">dedicated resource page specifically for charities<\/a> and a helpline has been opened to help you. The page also includes guidance from the Institute of Fundraising and the Fundraising Regulator.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"assess-the-gdpr-impact-on-your-charity\">Assess the GDPR impact on your charity<\/h3>\n<p>GDPR will apply to all personal information you may acquire and hold about, amongst others, your beneficiaries and users, donors, staff and volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you know what data your charity has and how it\u2019s managed. Take a look at the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/cfg.org.uk\/resources\/Publications\/cfg-publications.aspx\">GDPR guide for charities<\/a> from the Charity Finance Group (CFG).<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"start-planning\">Start planning<\/h3>\n<p>Get an action plan agreed with your trustees on how you plan to manage the data your charity holds or intends to get, in line with GDPR, and complete the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/ico.org.uk\/for-organisations\/resources-and-support\/data-protection-self-assessment\/getting-ready-for-the-gdpr\/\">ICO self-assessment<\/a> to see how ready you are.<\/p>\n<p>Think about whether you need to put processes in place to deal with requirements asked for by GDPR around accountability, transparency and security too.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"make-sure-your-details-with-the-charity-commission-are-up-to-date\">Make sure your details with the Charity Commission are up to date<\/h3>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Check that we have the correct details for your charity, including the names of your current trustees and their contact details (including email addresses).<\/p>\n<p>You can sign in to our <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.charitycommission.gov.uk\/officeforms\/CCPortal.ofml\">change charity details service<\/a> to do this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) will become law on the 25 May 2018. It\u2019s important to consider how this will affect your charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}