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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Social Media has established itself as a valuable tool for promoting and building an organisation's brand online. Just as social media can be a boon for your business, it can also be it's bane. Social Media is characterised by a distinct lack of of control of the conversation, especially when compared ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
The Consumer Protection Act (CPA) has been signed into law and will become operative on 24 October 2010. The CPA will have huge implications for your standard business terms and conditions, policies and other documents. The CPA introduces many obligations on vendors which vendors may probably not even be aware ...
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
We offer the following plain language services in line with our view that compliance is a process.
Be aware, develop policies and guides, and plan
We can help you to be aware of and learn about plain language and the law that requires it. We do this by:
conducting a plain language ...
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Organisations have a keen appreciation that information has value, which people are prepared to pay for (hence the increase in identity theft, industrial espionage, etc.). All companies have a legal obligation to address information security issues and the challenge is to identify precisely what they are obliged to do and ...
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
We can help you to comply with the information, communications and technology (ICT) laws that apply to your organisation and manage key risks posed by the use of ICT in organisations. We do this by following these steps:
We make you aware of the ICT laws. We do this by ...
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Many organisations do not know what intellectual property or IP assets they own. IP assets include both legal IP (typical IP) and competitive IP (such as knowledge and know-how). The tangible assets (like buildings, vehicles, or stock) that an organisation owns are usually known and therefore well managed. But the ...
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
In this audit we ascertain the extent to which the organisation's web site complies with applicable law. The benefits include:
Grow your business by building trust with the visitors to your web site
Avoid legal problems, difficulties, and disputes by managing your legal risks
Avoid costly litigation
Avoid fines and imprisonment by complying with ...
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
We can help you to assess the impact of the PPI Bill on your organisation.
Background
The pending Protection of Personal Information Bill (PPI Bill or POPI) is an important piece of legislation that will regulate how an organisation "processes" a particular category of information called "personal information" - information that relates ...
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
There are several laws in South Africa which impose obligations on organisations to treat certain types of information as "sensitive". In this regard, "sensitivity" includes all references in a law to information which is personal, private, confidential, secret, sensitive or cannot be disclosed. Many of the laws provide for offences ...
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
There are eight pieces of legislation where plain language is required and eleven where it is referenced. One example is the newly promulgated Consumer Protection Act (where there is a "right to information in plain and understandable language"). Another example is the National Credit Act 34 of 2005 (which makes ...
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