People employs and works with security and privacy professionals to maintain our systems, develop security review processes, build security infrastructure, and implement People's security policies.

Our teams engage with customers, industry stakeholders, and supervisory authorities to shape the People services in a manner that helps customers meet their compliance needs.

Our terms have been updated to reflect GDPR and are available on terms page on this website.

We have verified that our application, People HR, has all of the necessary functionality for compliance with the GDPR. The method we use for deletion and retention of data is acceptable for use under the GDPR. This verifies to our customers they are using software that is going to keep them compliant when May 25th, 2018 comes around.

We promise to maintain a high level of security, and will ensure timely breach reporting to meet all GDPR expectations. To reflect this, we have signed up to Rackspace managed security: https://www.Rackspace.Com/en-gb/managed-security-services This is the gold standard for security management. This service introduces automated analysis of the log files, forensic analysis of breach detection and timely notification and then recovery. We've purchased this on behalf of all of our customers. It's active as of now and we will be contractually assuring our customers of the use of it. It's incumbent upon data controllers to ensure the data processors have the right infrastructure in place to process your data. By purchasing this service, we can assure you we have the technical infrastructure in place which goes above and beyond regulation requirements.

Any data that a customer and its users put into our systems will only be processed in accordance with the customer’s instructions, as described in our current as well as our GDPR-updated data processing agreements.

All of People’s employees are required to sign a confidentiality agreement and complete mandatory confidentiality and privacy trainings, as well as our Code of Conduct training. People’s Code of Conduct outlines expected behaviour with respect to the protection of information.

People directly conduct all of data processing activities required to provide the People HR services.

Administrators can delete employee data, via the functionality of the People HR services, at any time during the term of the agreement. We have included data export commitments in our data processing terms since we began trading, and we will continue offering those after the GDPR comes into force. We are always working to enhance the robustness of the data export capabilities of the People HR services.

People store data backups for two weeks before the backups are replaced fully and any old data is removed.

How People assists data controllers

Data Subject's Rights

People HR can provide an export customer data, at any time during the term of the agreement. We have included data export commitments in our data processing terms for several years, and we will continue offering those after the GDPR comes into force.

Data Protection Officer

The People HR Data Protection Officer is Sukhjinder Singh, any questions can be directed to him regarding data protection concerns.

Incident Notifications

People will provide contractual commitments around incident notification. We will continue to promptly inform you of incidents involving your customer data in line with the data incident terms in our current agreements and the updated terms that will apply from 25 May 2018, when the GDPR comes into force.

Certifications

Our customers and regulators expect independent verification of security, privacy, and compliance controls. The People platform and service undergo several independent third-party audits on a regular basis to provide this assurance.

Our customers and regulators expect independent verification of security, privacy, and compliance controls. The People platform and service undergo several independent third-party audits on a regular basis to provide this assurance

ISO27001 Accredited
People® has been independently audited, and meets the requirements for BS EN ISO 27001:2013 registration. The scope covers how we manage information security in providing online Human Resource Management software and services to our customers.

Data Protection Registration
People® is registered with the Information Comissioner’s Office (ICO). This means we are contractually committed to delivering our services in compliance with the Data Protection Act (DPA).
ICO Registration Number: ZA185401

Penetration Testing
We commission regular independent penetration testing of our infrastructure, to ensure we keep our system free from vulnerabilities. With many high profile customers in the financial sector, we recognise the need for tight security at a very technical level.