The purpose of this policy is to ensure that necessary data, records and documents of Crush Escorts are adequately protected and maintained. Also, to ensure that records that are no longer needed or are of no value are discarded at the proper time and manor. This policy is also for the purpose of aiding employees of Crush Escorts in understanding their obligations in retaining data or electronic documents including email, instant messages, web files, text files, sound and video files, PDF documents and all Microsoft Office or other formatted files.
In summary, personal data will be retained for no longer than is absolutely necessary. A Data Retention Schedule will be produced by Crush Escorts to demonstrate a generic retention period based on the purpose of the data and data retention guidelines. In the event that the retention of personal data is no longer necessary for the operation of Crush Escorts, the data shall be deleted and all copies shall be destroyed as per the defined schedule.
The following Record Retention Schedule is the initial maintenance, retention and disposal schedule for records held by Crush Escorts. This schedule should be reviewed regularly to ensure the data retention policy approach is adhered to.
There are certain occasions when information needs to be preserved beyond any limits set out in the policy. The policy must be SUSPENDED relating to a specific customer or document and the information retained beyond the period specified in this Data Retention Schedule in the following circumstances:
Legal proceedings or a regulatory or similar investigation or obligation to produce information are known to be likely, threatened or actual
A crime is suspected or detected
Information is relevant to a company in liquidation, receivership or where a debt is due to the company
Information is considered by the owning unit to be of potential historical importance
In the case of possible or actual legal proceedings, investigations or crimes occurring, the type of information that needs to be retained relates to any that will help or harm the company or the other side's case, liability or amount involved. If there is any doubt over whether legal proceedings, an investigation or a crime could occur or what information material is relevant in these circumstances, the company shall take such steps as is necessary to promptly inform all staff of any suspension in the further disposal of documents.
The data retention policy is based on the following schedule.
Department Function
A - Accounting and finance
B - Contracts
C - Corporate records
D - Correspondence and internal memoranda
E - Personal information
F - Electronic records
G - Insurance records
H - Legal
I - Miscellaneous
J - Personnel records
KTax records
Record Type Retention Period
Annual accounts and financial information - Permanent
Bank statements and cancelled cheques - 7 years
Interim financial statements - 7 years
All records showing customer bank details must be locked in a desk drawer or a filing cabinet when not in immediate use by employees. If it is determined that information on a document, which contains credit card information, is to be retained beyond 3 months then the identifying details will be cut out of the document.
Record type Retention Period
Contracts and related correspondence (including any proposal that resulted in the contract and all other supporting documentation) - 7 years after expiration or termination
Record type Retention Period
Corporate records (record of incorporation, articles of incorporation, annual corporate reports) - Permanent
Licenses and permits - Permanent
General principle: most correspondence and internal memoranda should be retained for the same period as the document to which they relate. For instance, a letter pertaining to a particular contract would be retained as long as the contract (7 years after expiration). It is recommended that records that support a particular project be kept with the project and take on the retention time of that particular project file.
Correspondence or memoranda that do not pertain to documents having a prescribed retention period should generally be discarded sooner. These may be divided into two general categories:
Those pertaining to routine matters and having no significant, lasting consequences should be discarded within two years. Some examples include:
General enquiries and replies
Letters or complaints requesting specific action that have no further value after changes are made or action is taken (such as name or address change)
Other letters of inconsequential subject matter or that definitely close correspondence to which no further reference will be necessary
Chronological correspondence files
Copies of documents where a copy will be in the originating department file should be read and destroyed; unless that information provides a reference to, or direction to other documents and must be kept for project traceability.
Those pertaining to non-routine matters or having significant lasting consequences should generally be permanently retained.
This section sets out the data retention policies and procedures that are designed to help ensure compliance with legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that is processed for any purpose(s) shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. We will usually delete personal data falling within the categories set out below at a maximum of the date/time set out below:
Record type Retention period
Information about a computer, including visits to and use of this website (including an IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths) - 2 years following information submission
As a client, any information provided when contacting us via our website, website booking form, contact us page, email, mobile, IM, social media or by any other means. This may include sensitive personal information - 1 month following information submission
As an escort or member of our gallery, any information provided when completing a recruitment profile on our website, by email, phone, IM, social media, or any other means (including a name, gender, age, services offered professional experience and nationality). This may include sensitive personal information. - 7 years following account closure or our last interaction.
Information relating to any enquiries made (including name, address, telephone number, email address and payment details) - 1-week following information submission
Information or media submitted to our website for publication on the internet - 7 years after submission
Any other personal information is chosen to be sent - 7 years following contact
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk)
We will run database backups of all electronic data contained on our servers. This backup will include all information relating to all current users, as well as any information that remains on the server due to any reason contained in this policy. This database backup is a safeguard to retrieve lost information within a one year retrieval period should system users experience any problems.
Not all email needs to be retained, it depends on the subject matter.
All emails from clients are to be deleted after 1 month regardless of content
Any emails relating to unsuccessful recruitment applications will be deleted within 3 months after the application has been reviewed
Staff will take care not to send confidential/proprietary information to outside sources
Including word processing, spreadsheet, images, instant messaging, PDF files, and all other file sources. Retention also depends on the subject matter.
Instant messages: The length of time that instant messages are kept varies on the content. IMs are mainly used for the transfer of media during the recruitment process from prospective applicants. These messages and the media contained is deleted after the application process is complete. Media and messages relating to other individuals may be held for up to 7 years
We do not automatically delete electronic files beyond the dates specified in this policy. It is the responsibility of all staff to adhere to the guidelines specified in this policy. In certain cases, a document will be maintained in both paper and electronic form. In such cases, the official document will be the electronic document.
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General Principle: Companies must keep books of account or records as are sufficient to establish the amount of gross income, deductions, credits or other matters required to be shown in any such return. These documents and records shall be kept for as long as the contents thereof may become material in the administration of tax laws.
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