Information Management Policy

 

Policy No:  1.13                                                                                                                                                           Printable Version

 

PURPOSE

 

The Information Management Policy sets out the guidelines for managing the electronic information stored in the files and directories that constitute the electronic information repositories of The Fake Chicken Company.

 

SCOPE

 

This policy affects all users of computer systems and networks owned and managed by The Fake Chicken Company.

 

POLICIES 

1.      USER RESPONSIBILITIES

1.1    Ownership

 

1.1.1  Data and information created, manipulated, saved, transmitted or archived on the corporate systems of The Fake Chicken Company remains the property of The Fake Chicken Company.

 

 

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1.2    Management of Electronic Information

 

1.2.1   No data should be stored on the C:\ drives of personal computers or workstations, usb drives, laptops or any other portable device, or copied onto CDs or floppy disks unless these are copies made in addition to saving the data on the shared file system.

 

 

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1.3    Archiving and Long Term Storage

 

1.3.1  Users must not permanently delete or dispose of potentially important The Fake Chicken Company electronic records or information without specific advance management approval...

 

 

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1.4    Collection and Dissemination

 

1.4.1  Requests for information about The Fake Chicken Company and its business activities must be referred to a senior manager who has sufficient authority to give out the information.  These requests include questionnaires, surveys, newspaper interviews, press releases etc

 

 

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2.      MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

2.1    Management of Electronic Information

 

2.1.1  Management must make reasonable efforts to ensure that all information held electronically in The Fake Chicken Company’s corporate information systems is accurate, timely, relevant, and complete. 

 

 

           

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2.2    Archives and Long Term Storage

 

2.2.1  Managers must ensure that important business source documents and electronic original files must be backed up to archival media and securely stored in an offsite location once the final version has been approved. 

 

 

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3.      INFORMATION SYSTEMS STAFF RESPONSIBILITIES

3.1    Management of Electronic Information

 

3.1.1   With  the  exception  of operational computer and network information, the Information Systems Division must not be the owner of any information. 

 

 

 

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3.2    Archiving and Long Term Storage

 

3.2.1  Archived electronic records are subject to the same fundamental record keeping conventions as paper records and must be managed accordingly.

 

            Explanation

         This  policy seeks to advise systems administrators and database managers that electronic information is subject to the same provisions as any other The Fake Chicken Company records and throughout its life cycle should be managed in line with mainstream record keeping principles...

 

 

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