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6 Steps You Need to Take in Popi Compliance Plan

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WHAT IS POPI COMPLIANCE? The Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (“POPI Act”) is a new Act that governs the way in which businesses handle the personal information that they collect from others. As such, POPI Act compliance, also known as POPIA compliance or Protection of Personal Information Act compliance, refers to the processes which need to be followed in order to bring an organization into alignment with the provisions and requirements of the POPI Act. Other than any popi compliance plan can be prepared by these means only.  DOES MY ORGANISATION NEED TO BECOME POPI COMPLIANT? The basic rule of thumb is that if your organisation is collecting or passing on any personal information (aka processing) it is required to become POPI compliant. What the above means is that even if you do not have sight of personal information directly, the fact that you have the ability to see such personal information or are simply passing it on requires your organisation to become POP...

4 Best Ways A Real Contract Attorney Will Save Your Money

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  For all your important issues related to tax for any business, you need to seek the idea of a real Contract Attorney . In fact, it will be helpful if your tax attorney can bring you a lot of profits when it comes to investments that are related to tax. A commercial lawyer has a lot of power and can use his power to get you a lot of tax related help. He can get you the largest benefits on a particular investment. The function of a property tax lawyer is very different from the function of a real estate closing attorney. However, there are some most common functions that are performed by both.     Let us take a look at how a contract attorney can actually save your money and time. •The real contract attorney tries to save your money as much as he can. They take exceptional care about the issue and they ensure that you are getting whatever deduction is possible for you to get. The state law consists of various faults. The lawyer is informed of all these faults. The reason ...

What Is Contract Law and Why Should I Hire A Contract Lawyer?

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Contract law is a branch of the legal department that deals with the legal mandatory, and exchange of agreements between group or organization. A contract can be considered as many things like verbal, written, even action oriented. If you buy a dress, for example, you're contracted to pay the payment of the dress to the merchant. Our daily lives are full of contracts and agreements, some, like the dress, and mobile etc which we don't normally think about. What contract law does is protect, save and look at contracts made between people, agencies, groups, and organizations, etc . Much of the time, the contract law is related to breaches of contracts and solutions to the problems that join these breeches. What most people don't know is that, contrary to what they may believe, an informal contract (one made verbally, even lightly) can still be as compulsory and legal as a written contract. Contract lawyers dealing with all things from the formalities and basic details of a co...

Top Reasons Why Your Business Should Register Its Trademarks

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A trademark is your business'  recognizer, it plays a very vital role for any business. it protects ownership of your name, logo, tagline, or uniqueness whatever mark you may use to identify to the consuming public your business' product or service in the market. Here are just a some important reasons why you should to protect your brand: Notice Trademark registration of your business gives everyone helpful notice of your ownership. According to Legal Legend's view, this is one of, if not the most compelling cause for registering your mark. With notice, a third party doing a search on an equal or similar mark as yours will see that you already own the mark, and is therefore put on notice that its use of an identical or similar mark to yours may result in trademark limitation. The third party is placed on attention to find a new and different mark. With such notice, registering your mark prevents a potential dispute in the future. That's why Trademark Renewal is very ne...

POPI Compliance Requirements

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  The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI Act) is a new Act that governs the way in which you handle the personal information (such as names, email addresses, physical addresses) that you collect from others. POPI Act compliance, also known as POPIA compliance or Protection of Personal Information Act compliance, involves bringing your organization into alignment with the POPI Act by implementing the correct workplace policies, processes and procedures. https://www.legallegends.co.za/popi-act-compliance-services/

5 Common Legal Mistakes Start-ups Make – And How To Avoid Them

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GETTING YOUR START-UP off the ground will be one of the hardest things you ever do. All the lingo about being nimble, agile and lean certainly holds water, but when executed too casually, could scupper your venture by creating unintended legal loopholes that come back to bite you many months, or years later. To equip your start-up for the unforgiving world of business, let’s explore five common legal mistakes start-ups tend to make when launching their business. To download the PDF article, click here . NAIL DOWN YOUR FOUNDING DOCUMENTS As early as possible, you need to secure all founding documents and agreements to govern the relationship between the company and its shareholders and directors. The most important of these documents are the Shareholders Agreement and Memorandum of Incorporation. When your start-up is making the big moola — which we all hope it does — issues between shareholders become very real. Ensuring that you have the right mechanisms in place to solve shareholder...

Inappropriate Workplace Behavior & How to Prevent It

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Is your business doing enough to ensure that it prevents harassment in the work, and the liability associated therewith? IN RECENT YEARS , there has been an increasing realisation of the prevalence and the devastating effects of inappropriate workplace behaviour, especially sexual harassment, in both South Africa and in international jurisdictions. The “MeToo” campaign brought awareness to this pandemic, where shocking revelations were made, regarding a number of persons that were sexually harassed, especially by their employers or by persons in positions of power over them. Workplace behavior is the manner in which employees respond to specific circumstances or situations in the workplace. Whilst many elements determine an individual’s behavior in the workplace, employees are shaped by their culture and by the organization’s culture. Therefore, it is incumbent upon a company to ensure that its culture is a healthy one in which employees feel free, safe and protected so as to work eff...