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Global Hotlines and International Data Privacy


An Ethics Hotline and Management System for Your Organization

When implementing an ethics hotline and hotline reporting system, global organizations must adequately address linguistic and cultural differences while maintaining a consistent approach to the intake and management of issues. Challenges include:

  • Communicating a business ethics policy in many languages;
  • Providing a hotline reporting system that is universally available to all, regardless of time zone and the technology available;
  • Handling hotline reporting and web reporting in multiple languages;
  • Addressing international data privacy laws, including whistleblower guidelines and data transfers.
Learn more about EthicsPoint hotline reporting tools and how our ethics hotline helps your organization manage enterprise risk management, issue awareness, and loss prevention.

A Hotline Reporting System That Addresses Compliance on a Global Scale

Many organizations are in a unique position when balancing business ethics, compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the laws of international jurisdictions, such as those in the European Union (EU). There is often an apparent disconnect between compliance with one and compliance with another, given the complex nature of handling data privacy in countries outside the United States. EthicsPoint’s Data Privacy solution resolves these issues with the technological tools necessary to approach compliance on a global scale.

EthicsPoint’s Data Privacy solution provides many of the technological tools required to address guidelines established by:

  • France: CNIL
  • European Union: Article 29 Working Group
  • Belgium: Data Privacy Commission
  • Germany: Düsseldorfer Kreis
  • Spain: APD/LOPD
  • Ireland: Data Protection Commission
  • Canada: PIPEDA
  • Japan: J-SOX

Ethics Hotline Available with Language Localization

The EthicsPoint ethics hotline can be localized to conform to language and cultural norms. Our Contact Center management and hotline reporting technology allows for personalized greetings or pre-recorded menus in a specific language when a call originates from an international location or a location with more than one spoken language.

Additionally, our solution supports the translation of custom web pages, incident categories, and questions into almost any language.

Contact Center

All incoming foreign language calls into the ethics hotline are automatically routed to native speakers or connected with a live interpreter. Our Contact Center currently serves over 100 countries around the globe and handles calls in more than 150 languages. Click here to learn more about our Contact Center.

Downloads

  • Datasheet: Hotline/Helpline Reporting
  • Datasheet: Global Hotlines and Data Privacy
  • Whitepaper: Whistle Blowing Goes Global: Addressing International Issues
  • Whitepaper: Whistle Blowing and Data Privacy in EU Countries
  • Whitepaper: Hotline/Helpline Operation in France
  • Whitepaper: German Data Privacy Guidelines (a translation by EthicsPoint)
  • Whitepaper: Spanish Data Protection Agency Position Paper (a translation by EthicsPoint)
  • Case Study: Endesa

Events

  • March 26, 2008
    Tradeshow: International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) – Privacy Summit
  • April 4, 2008
    Speaking Engagement: Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE)
  • April 9, 2008
    Webinar: Feds Put Companies on Notice: Detecting and Responding to “Red Flags” of Identity Theft

News

  • February 18, 2008
    News - Article: Corporate Governance Gets More Transparent Worldwide
  • January 31, 2008
    News: "Bias reporting tools implemented" - An Article
  • January 30, 2008
    News: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): The New Paradigm for the Software Industry

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