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The Data Protection Fee: Does Your Company Need to Pay?
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator, is here to help companies in the freight industry to get data protection right.
You’ll find lots of advice and guidance for businesses on the ICO’s website, including guidance on how to keep data flowing at the end of the UK’s transition out of the EU, and a self-assessment checklist which will help you work out whether you need to pay a fee to the ICO. For most businesses, the fee is £40 or £60 for the year.
It’s the law to pay the data protection fee, which funds the ICO’s work, but it also makes good business sense. Whether or not you have paid the fee could have an impact on your reputation. Paying the fee and being listed on the ICO’s register of fee payers shows that your company take data protection seriously. It’s a strong message for your customers – it lets them know you value and care about their information. It also lets other organisations know that you run a tight ship.
You may have received a letter from the ICO reminding you of your legal responsibility to pay the data protection fee – this should come as a helpful reminder to pay the annual fee on time, or tell the ICO if you’re exempt.
Though the ICO ultimately has the power to issue fines, most of its work with small organisations is focussed on helping you to get data protection right first time around. The ICO’s friendly and knowledgeable staff are there to help.
Visit ico.org.uk/hub for data protection advice.
You’ll find lots of advice and guidance for businesses on the ICO’s website, including guidance on how to keep data flowing at the end of the UK’s transition out of the EU, and a self-assessment checklist which will help you work out whether you need to pay a fee to the ICO. For most businesses, the fee is £40 or £60 for the year.
It’s the law to pay the data protection fee, which funds the ICO’s work, but it also makes good business sense. Whether or not you have paid the fee could have an impact on your reputation. Paying the fee and being listed on the ICO’s register of fee payers shows that your company take data protection seriously. It’s a strong message for your customers – it lets them know you value and care about their information. It also lets other organisations know that you run a tight ship.
You may have received a letter from the ICO reminding you of your legal responsibility to pay the data protection fee – this should come as a helpful reminder to pay the annual fee on time, or tell the ICO if you’re exempt.
Though the ICO ultimately has the power to issue fines, most of its work with small organisations is focussed on helping you to get data protection right first time around. The ICO’s friendly and knowledgeable staff are there to help.
Visit ico.org.uk/hub for data protection advice.
In November 2019, we launched this innovative offering for clients seeking access to advice for an agreed annual fee.
This is an alternative to our standard retainer system and offers clients an opportunity to obtain advice where the cost is pre-determined for the whole year. This arrangement would suit clients who may from time to time need to seek legal advice but may hold off preferring a ‘wait and see’ approach.
In our experience, early intervention can reduce the risk of the situation escalating as we can give advice and guidance that nips regulatory issues in the bud before they develop into something far worse. We also strongly recommend our clients consider taking out legal expenses insurance to cover investigations and prosecutions brought by regulators.
DyneProtect© has teamed up with Butcher & Barlow solicitors to provide DyneProtect© clients access to a specialist team of corporate and commercial lawyers for up to 1 hours’ worth of free telephone advice/legal consultation.
Butcher & Barlow have a dedicated commercial and agricultural hub on Gadbrook Park in Northwich which provides advice and assistance to a host of business clients in specialist areas such as Corporate and Commercial Law, Commercial Property, Private Client and Agriculture.
If you have a corporate or commercial issue which Dyne Solicitors is unable to handle, then Butcher & Barlow’s Commercial team will certainly be able to step in and assist.
DyneProtect© has also negotiated price reductions on OLAT / Driver CPC courses run by training providers KP Legal Limited who are offering discounts to DyneProtect© clients on Operator Licensing Awareness / Compliance training (-20%) and Periodic Driver CPC training (-10%).
This is an alternative to our standard retainer system and offers clients an opportunity to obtain advice where the cost is pre-determined for the whole year. This arrangement would suit clients who may from time to time need to seek legal advice but may hold off preferring a ‘wait and see’ approach.
In our experience, early intervention can reduce the risk of the situation escalating as we can give advice and guidance that nips regulatory issues in the bud before they develop into something far worse. We also strongly recommend our clients consider taking out legal expenses insurance to cover investigations and prosecutions brought by regulators.
DyneProtect© has teamed up with Butcher & Barlow solicitors to provide DyneProtect© clients access to a specialist team of corporate and commercial lawyers for up to 1 hours’ worth of free telephone advice/legal consultation.
Butcher & Barlow have a dedicated commercial and agricultural hub on Gadbrook Park in Northwich which provides advice and assistance to a host of business clients in specialist areas such as Corporate and Commercial Law, Commercial Property, Private Client and Agriculture.
If you have a corporate or commercial issue which Dyne Solicitors is unable to handle, then Butcher & Barlow’s Commercial team will certainly be able to step in and assist.
DyneProtect© has also negotiated price reductions on OLAT / Driver CPC courses run by training providers KP Legal Limited who are offering discounts to DyneProtect© clients on Operator Licensing Awareness / Compliance training (-20%) and Periodic Driver CPC training (-10%).
