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Insight
10 September 2019
Cayman Islands, Hong Kong
4 min read
The Cayman Islands Data Protection Law, 2017 (DP Law) is currently scheduled to come into effect on 30 September 2019. Once commenced, it will enact a framework of rights and duties to regulate the processing of individuals' personal data broadly based on the same internationally recognised privacy principles that form the basis for other data protection laws globally. The DP Law will regulate the processing of all personal data in the Cayman Islands and will affect any entity established in the Cayman Islands, including investment funds, that processes personal data regardless of whether such processing takes place within the Cayman Islands and regardless of whether the personal data relates to Cayman individuals. For our full briefing see Cayman Islands Data Protection Law: An Ogier Client Guide.
Under the DP Law, any entity established in the Cayman Islands that handles any individual's personal information will have certain obligations with respect to that information and must ensure that such individual is formally apprised of by whom, and for what purpose, any of their personal data is being used.
A Cayman fund will be regarded as a data controller under the DP Law as a 'person who, alone or jointly with others determines the purposes, conditions and manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed'. As such, the fund will be responsible for complying with the requirements of the DP Law and the data protection principles in respect of personal data processed by the fund or on behalf of the fund by any third party processors such as its administrator and other service providers (each a data processor).
Under the DP Law, data controllers must act in accordance with eight data protection principles:
Breaches under the DP Law could result in fines of CI $100,000 (US $122,000) and certain offences are punishable by imprisonment. Other monetary penalties of up to Cl $250,000 (US $305,000) are also possible in certain circumstances.
Cayman funds should act now to ensure that they comply with the DP Law by the expected commencement date of 30 September 2019. Recommended actions required include (without limitation):
Should you have any questions, we would be happy to discuss the implications of the DP Law for your fund and to assist with your fund's compliance.
Please contact your usual Ogier attorney or a member of our team listed here.
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