The Protection of Personal Information Act or POPI Act comes into full effect on 1 July 2021 making it very important for all businesses to ensure that they are POPI compliant and are taking the measures to safeguard their data subject's private information. The penalties for non-compliance include sizeable fines and imprisonment and they will be enforced by the Information Regulator. It is important to follow practical steps as a business to make certain your website is POPI compliant. Ensuring that your business website reasonably complies with the POPI Act and protects personal information will benefit your business in terms of customer satisfaction and loyalty, improving your data security and data accuracy and outranking your competitors.
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