Laws Applied to The Victoria’s Secret
The Legal Issues related to the Victoria’s Secret…………………………………..3 Data Protection Act 1998……………………………………………………………………..3 Computer Misuse Act 1990…………………………………………………………………..4 Freedom of Information Act 2000…………………………………………………………5 Human Rights Act 1998…………………………………………………………………………6 Privacy Act 1974……………………………………………………………………………………7 What are Ethnical issues related to the Victoria’s Secret?.......................8 Emails……………………………………………………………………………………………………8 Internet…………………………………………………………………………………………………9 Whistle-blowing…………………………………………………………………………………….9 What is the informational ownership?....................................................10 The Policies and Procedures related with the Victoria’s Secret…………….11 Security of information…………………………………………………………………………11 Backups…………………………………………………………………………………………….….12 Health and Safety………………………………………………………………………………….12 Organisational Policies………………………………………………………………..….…….13 Business continue plan………………………………………………………………………….13 Costs……………………………………………………………………………………………..……...14 Bibliography………………………………………………………………………………..…………15
What are the Legal Issues related to the Victoria’s Secret Company? The legal issues are various items of legalisation to protect the use of business information. Data Protection Act 1998 The Data Protection Act 1998 is the law designed to protect personal data which is stored on the computers or in an organisation paper filling system. In the end of the 20th century different organisation start to use computers to keep the customers, staff and clients data. For example: names, address, telephone number, employment history, credit history etc. This allow the company to share important and needed information quickly. The companies started to use computers more and more. Because of that there was a danger the information could be misused or get into the wrong hands. The main purpose of created Dara Protection Act 1998 by the Parliament was to control the way information are used and to give legal rights to people who have information stored about them. The other European Union countries did the same thing and created law which will protect people data. The Victoria’s Secret has many customers and staff. The company keeps information about many people. The information about customers usually are poor. The company will know they names, emails, addresses and sometimes telephones numbers. However, if that information will be share without permission and for no reason is going to be against the law. Other companies may use that information to advertisement they companies. The main danger related with this is when someone will use the customers address. It could be risky for the customer, because is hard to say why this person want to have this address. The Victoria’s Secret has loads of staff. Some of the works in the storages, the other in head offices. The information which the company possess are very detail. The company knows where the personnel worked before, what is they medical condition, where they live etc. Those data are very important. The consequences of sharing this data could be huge. If someone will use that information illegally the Victoria’s Secret can have very big problems. Firstly, this is very risky for the employee because someone can use this data to take bank loans or to hard this person. For the company it could means a big fine which the Victoria’s Secret will have to pay.
Computer Misuse Act 1990 The Computer Misuse Act 1990 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Computer Misuse Act 1990 was mainly created to fight with hacking. However, there is much more misuse of computers. The act helps people to control them. The main and most important points of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 are:
Is against the law to look at someone files without permission Accessing computer material without permission with intent to commit further criminal offences Is against the law to hacking someone personal data, writing viruses which will hack bank account etc. Is against the law to take money from someone account by hacking it
Hacking Hacking is where an unauthorised person uses a network, to have access to the security passwords or other security to see data which is stored on someone computer. Hackers sometimes hack things which are really serious like bank account password etc. Is very important to control it. Victoria’s Secret has many different costumers, most of their date is stored on the computers. The company has to be careful and have good security, otherwise someone can hack those date. Victoria’s Secret has also online shopping where clients pays by bank transfer. The company have to be aware and provide the best possible security for this information. In this time hackers acquire information about people in many different ways. The company has to remember about possible hazard and buy security which will be difficult to break. Viruses The computer viruses are small programs which are designed to spread from one computer to the other and interact with the programs and information which are on them. Viruses are usually spread by emails or online messages. They can use your email to spread to the another computer, delate yours whole data or take some information of from it. Is really important for every single computer to update software and install antiviruses programs. As every company Victoria’s Secret use many computers to make it work smoothly. The company has to invest money to the antiviruses which will guarantee the best quality of protection for the computers. The company has emails of its customers, if the company will send unwanted emails, customer could open it and get the viruses on their computers. It will have very bad impact on the company because the customer may stop trust the company.
Freedom of Information Act 2000 The Freedom of Information Act 2000 is an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that creates a public "right of access" to information held by public authorities. It provides individuals or organisation with the right to request information held by public authority. The Freedom of Information Act 2000 contains eight major sections called Parts and followed explanatory of those Parts called Schedules. The Part outlines the main rights of the public to obtain information, conditions under which this access may be refused and special exemptions. The Scheduled give more greatest and detailed explanation of all of the parts. IN the Freedom of Information Act 2000 the individual may authorised the date and decided to accessing the information or not. There is also some exemption of this Act. For example, if the amount of the information exceeds an appropriate limit, the public authorised may decide if the public interest is being served by denying the request or supplying the information. The Victoria’s Secret company communicate with it costumers by many things such as website, emails, phones etc. A huge number of this information are transfer and access to the different places. For example, Victoria’s Secret use the website and email to see what kind of preferences the customers have and then use it or share with other companies. Victoria’s Secret share the information with companies like La Senza International or Bath & Body Works. The company may also share the name, postal address, and summary purchase information with other merchants and merchant exchanges. Other merchants may, in turn, use this information to send the offers to the customers. However, in the situation when the customers don’t want to the company to share this kind of information about them, Victoria’s Secret has the information on their website how they can stop it. For example, the customers may to wish to don’t use their emails and telephone number and emails to inform them about new offer. They also may to wish to don’t share those things with others companies.
Human Rights Act 1998 Human Rights Act 1998 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act gives effect to the human rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights. There a many different right which are protected under the Human Right Act 1998. The main important rights are: the right to live, the right to freedom of religion and beliefs, the right to family, the right to be treat fair and the right to be not abuse or tortured in any physical or mental way. Most of the right protect human’s beliefs, independence and protect them from any kind of abuse or grievance. The Human Rights Act 1998 is one of the most important and basic act set up by the Parliament. The owners and any other stakeholders of the Victoria’s Secret has a responsibility to keep the human right. Everyone has the same rights to live and to beliefs. No one has a right to judge or convince other to change their beliefs. The Human Rights Act 1998 is one of the most important Act. If any of the Stakeholders from the Victoria’s Secret company will acting in the way against it, is going to be illegal and could have a final in the court. All of the Victoria’s Secret’s Stakeholders should respect each other. The owners should treat equally all of the employees, no matter if they are manager of storage or just the customer assistants. They also should accept their beliefs and do not discriminate them because of their gander, nationality or ethnicity. The customers should be polite and respectable to the cashier and customer assistants. Any act of the mental or physical abuse should be report to the owners or straight away to the police. Is very important for all of Victoria’s Secret stakeholders to keep the Human Rights Act 1998. Without it the company could have huge problems with the government. If the employees and supplier will fair treat the customer will have more trust to the company.
Privacy Act 1974 The Privacy Act 1974 establishes a Code of Fair Information Practice. It refers to the to the personal information about individual which can be collected by the government or any other organisation. The most important part of this legalisation is that the individuals has the right to know which organisation has their personal date, why and how its use. The individuals have also rights to decide about some of the information and access them or not. In the computer era it could has an important meaning because sometimes is not easy to control who has the access to our information. The Victoria’s secret possesses the customer personal information mainly to be able to communicate them. The main information which the company has are: email, telephone number, name, surname and sometimes address. Victoria’s Secret on their website informs people which information the company has about them and how the company use it. The customer may easily stop the process and ask the company to delate their personal date. Victoria’s Secret as a known brand should be aware of all of the legalisation. The customers must have trust to the company and knows that their personal information are not used in bad way. All of the citizens has right to have their privacy. Victoria’s Secret should respect that and try to use the personal date only in essential situations.
What are Ethical Issues related to the Victoria’s Secret? The business ethnical issues are the most important rules set up by the company. They are moral principles that direct the way how the business behaves. Acting in ethnical means that the company acting in the right way and do what is seen as moral and good. The ethical issues are very important for the businesses. The company which doesn’t behaves in the right way may be seen as a bad and law standard one. The good customers will also pay attention and check how the company treats and respect them. The main points of the ethical issues are: emails, internet and whistle blowing.
Emails The company use email all the time. Emails are send to the customers but is also the way how the employees and employers communicate each other. Without the emails communication could be not as effective as is now. Almost every company use emails to be able to communicate in quick and good way. Many organisations have a code of practice on the correct use of emails. The code of practice explains the employees how to use email in an appropriate way and when to use it. It can explain that very important documents shouldn’t be send by emails or that emails should be send only of the information which it contains is short and to the point. This code of practise may also inform the employees when they can send emails to the customers and what language they should use. As most of the companies Victoria’s Secret use the email every day. The companies have its storages in many difference places. Employees and employers send messages through the email to each other and to the customers. For all of the people is important to know how to write an emails and how they should look. The code of practice will describe the way how the emails should be use. People who working for each other should treat each other with respect, otherwise the communication may be bad what will affect the whole organisation. Also he communication with the customer through by email is important. The customers must see that email have important and interesting information. The language used for this kind of clients (the one from Victoria’s Secret) should be formal but not to formal to make the customers feels that company have good impact with them.
Internet The companies use internet almost for everything. By the internet the research the market, see the customer’s preferences, communicate with the customers and sells their products. Many companies also have codes of practice on the use of the Internet and what their employees cannot use the internet for. There are also the codes of practice how to use the internet to sell the company’s products and how to sell them in the moral, good and effective way. The Victoria’s Secret’s employees use internet to communicate with each other or customers, make the research, use website or sells the company’s products. The company have the codes of practice to inform employees how to use the internet and what is the main purpose to use it. One of the most important part could be that the employees of Victoria’s Secret should use the internet to things which are relate with work. They shouldn’t use social medias and websites which are not related with the company. The code of practice could inform the personnel how to sell the Victoria’s Secret and how present the company in the online space. The Victoria’s Secret is seen as the brand for sexy and confident women. The employees responsible for the online posters, social media and website should always remember about direction which the company is going and try to carry on it. Whistle-blowing A whistle- blower is an employee who has some concern about the business practice. The concern may relate to the crime, danger or any other risk that may affect the customers, stakeholders, employees, public or the environment. The whistle-blowers may receive legal protection from through the Public Interest Disclosure. The whistle-blowing may be very useful. People related with different organisation informs the police in the situation when the company actions make any danger for any stakeholders, public or environment. It helps the police and government to punish those who create any danger. The Victoria’s Secret company didn’t have any serious problems because of whistle-blower. It could mean that the company treat fair all of the employees and that the most of the action took by this company are legal and not risky to anyone. There is a very high possibility that the whistle-blowing work throughout the company. The employees may inform the owners about their colleagues who acting in the way which creates a risk and danger for them and for the customers. In this situation the owners have responsibility to react and fired particular employee.
What is information ownership? Data ownership is the act of having legal rights and complete control over a date. It defines and provides information about the rightful owner of data assets and the acquisition, use and distribution policy implemented by the data owner. Usually, the people who create the data documents are responsible for them. They have to make sure that no one has access to them. Any kind of information and reports about the employees should be private and confidential. Only a small number of people should have access to them. Victoria’s Secret is a huge company with thousands of employees. The company keeps information about every single employee. There are also employees who are responsible for create this date or report about the employees. This people should be appropriable for this work. They should keep the data safe and confidential. They are not allowing to access the personal information about colleagues to any person who is not authorised to know about those date.
The Policies and Procedures related to the Victoria’s Secret company. All of the businesses have to store and manage countless data and documents with information. The documents can contain information about employees, owners and all of the stakeholder. Some of them could be more important and some of the could be less. The organisation always has to make sure that that information is protect and only a several number of appropriate member’s staff has access to them. To make sure that information is manage in good way, the companies created a number of policies and procedures. The main and the most important are: security of information, backups, organisational policies and business continuance plan. Security of information In the business the security of information is a document which inform all of the member of the company how a company plans to protect physical and information technology assets. The security of information is constantly updated and contains the information about maintaining the integrity and availability of organisational information and knowledge. Most of the information focused on date, however the subject also covers the records and knowledge management. It is important for the company to have the right information available when the organisation needs them to make a good decision. That’s why company shouldn’t keep the data only on the computers but also as a paper documents in the case if the company will have technology problems. The company also has to remember about good security in the IT section. Only a few people should have access to them by special login and password. Victoria’s Secret company as all of the businesses has thousands of the information and date. Most of them are about employees, owners and all of the stakeholder. However, the most important information which the company keeps are information about the it. The information may contain the most important and fundamental information about the company and how it works. Because of this information Victoria’s Secret can make feature plans and draw the conclusion from the previous actions. It may be dangerous if someone unwanted will see this information. For example, this person may access this information to the other company which sell the lingerie. This is why the company set up the number of rules and policies which all of the stakeholder has to keep and respect. The company also have a system which protects the data on the computers. Only the most important staff of member has access to them. All of this actions help Victoria’s Secret to effectively protect it data.
Backups The large businesses developed the system which will allows them to double secure their date. Most of the company’s data is storages on the computers. There exists a serious risk that the technology may failure and all of the data will be lost. The largest companies created a programmes to minimalize this risk. This involves produces the backup the data stored on It servers. The backups are stored on the separate hardware form the live version of information. Some of the businesses undated data every hour, some of them just once a day or week. If the whole company’s data will be lost the backups information will give a copy of it. The backups information always should be protected. The access to hardware should have only some staff of IT department and owners. Victoria’s Secret created the backups information to make sure that in the critical situation the company will not lose all of it data. Data is one of the most important thing for the company. The company keeps record from the sells etc. Without them Victoria’s Secret will be not able to draw a conclusion and to thing about next actions. The access to backup information has the most important people for the company. Health and Safety In the 21st century most of the businesses use the computer for every day work. A great number of employees and employers use the computers all the time. The IT technology can’t be really dangerous on itself, however there is some hazards related of using the computer. There are four regulations which inform the businesses how to stay health and safety in the work place:
The Health and Safety Regulation 1992 Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992 Provision and use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992 Workplace Regulations 1992 Act all legislate the use of the computer equipment
The Victoria’s Secret employees who uses computer should always respect and keep all of the legalisation. There are several number of risk related with the work on the computer like problems with the pain in the back and shoulders, problems with eyes etc. The Victoria’s Secret employees should always remember about the main policies which will helps them to decrease the risk related with work on the computer.
Organisational Policies The organisation policies are set up by the company and help to the company’s staff to understand all of the policies and regulations about the data and information. These policies may include the guidance about all of the policies. However, the organisation policies also include information about all of rules in the company. They can inform the employees how to behaves and how the communication through the company should look like. The Victoria’s Secret has many different organisational policies. The organisation policies sometimes look slightly different for the different departments. However, the highlight the most important rules in the company. In the storage the employees may have the policies which inform them how to speak with the customer. The workers in the storages also complete the customer’s data. The policies may inform them that that information should be private. For the finance department the main policy could be to never share the company output and input with anyone. Business continue plan The Business continuance plans are the step witch the company will take in the most critical situations. The companies set up the whole scenario what to do in the situations like: accidents or flooding. The good example of business continue plan is the backups. The company make it selfready for the situation when the system will failure. If most of the data is safe in the different hardware, then the company will have no problems, because of it. The Victoria’s Secret company has many storages in different places and also may head offices. The business continue plans may involve training for the staff in the case of fire or malicious attack. It makes that in the danger situation the employees will know what to do and there will be no victims. One of the very important part is also that Victoria’s Secret save a data on the other hardware to be bonded in the case of technical problems. There are many example what the Victoria’s Secret do to make sure that in the danger and risky situation everyone and everything will be safe.
Costs All of the action which with are related with the policies and business continuance plans cost money. For all of the actions the company will need some extra money. Some of the things like training in the case of fire are thing which the company have to do. However, backups cost a lot of money for some of the businesses the cost could be to big. The company had to draw a plan which will include all of the costs. Is going to include additional resources needed and cost of development. Victoria’s Secret is a huge company and earn millions every year. As the huge company, Victoria’s Secret will do everything to make sure that their staff and data is safe. Sometimes the company may wait with the development and do it after few years, however it still will be done.
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