How to Collect Data the Secure, Compliant Way: The Ultimate Guide
Summary
When your customers submit information through forms on your website, they’re putting a large amount of trust in you to keep it secure, and it’s your duty as a reliable business to handle their data responsibly and not to leave it vulnerable to tampering or theft. On FormAssembly’s Compliance Cloud plan, sensitive data is masked by default and is only accessible by authorized personnel for specific amounts of time. If your website does not have a TLS certificate, you can direct respondents to secure web form links, such as those provided by FormAssembly. Under HIPAA, it’s important to use a HIPAA-compliant data collection solution to collect any PHI, which includes one or more of the following 18 items: • None Names (Full or last name and initial) • None Dates (other than year) directly related to an individual • None Any other unique identifying number, characteristic, or code except the unique code assigned by the investigator to code the data Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is a part of Europe’s PSD2 (second Payment Services Directive) and is concerned with the safety of digital payments in Europe. Now that you know more about how to create secure web forms, take the next step and complete our data collection quiz.