The ICO exists to empower you through information.

This self assessment checklist has been created with small business owners and sole traders in mind. It is also suitable for small membership organisations, such as sports clubs. Good information handling makes good business sense. You'll enhance your business's reputation, increase customer and employee confidence, and by making sure personal information is accurate, relevant and safe, save both time and money.

Use our checklist to improve your understanding of data protection and find out what you need to do to make sure you are keeping people’s personal data secure. Once you have completed the checklist a short report will be created suggesting some practical actions you can take and providing links to additional guidance you could read that will help you improve your data protection knowledge and compliance.

If you are unsure if you need to follow data protection law you might want take our short quiz first.