At Becklyn, we take data security seriously and therefore take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is protected from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
Any personal information that is captured in electronic form is held in a privately managed cloud, on dedicated Australian based servers with backups performed regularly. These backups remain in Australia and are protected using AES encryption. In addition, our web based applications force encryption of all data in transit using industry standard TLS encryption, and our entire private application platform is encrypted at rest, using AES encryption
In order to be an approved Child Care Subsidy (CCS) software provider, our environment, application and transmission of data is required to meet Government regulations and is required to go through a re-registration process each time there are changes to the way our system communicates with the Child Care Subsidy System (CCSS). These regulations include:
- information only being accessible by fit and proper persons,
- keeping operational equipment and software up to date with security patches
- undertaking active virus scanning with up to date scanning software and virus signatures; and
- utilising properly configured firewalls
Our servers are managed by an organisation that maintains its ISO 27001 certification, and the organisation has multiple policies and procedures in place to ensure data security. Personal and Sensitive information is retained only for the required periods of time under legislation.
