(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider HostDime (www.hostdime.com) has been certified under the United States-European Union Safe Harbor framework, which lets US companies comply with the EU Data Protection Directive and meet the demands of its European clients.
The US Department of Commerce developed the Safe Harbor framework to bridge differences between US and EU privacy law, and it is intended prevent accidental information disclosure by organizations that store customer data. As part of the voluntary program’s self-certification process, HostDime has modified its privacy policy to adhere to Safe Harbor’s seven key principles.
“Our abuse and security team spends numerous hours each day contributing to several security organizations to lend our hand in and maintaining a clean online community,” HostDime operations vice president Michael Kahn said in a statement. “Privacy and account security is something that is of utmost importance to our organization, and Safe Harbor is an excellent framework to follow for trade and privacy principles. We are eager to implement practices in our business in order to better serve the global hosting market.”
HostDime and its international divisions serve a large number of European clients, and its voluntarily compliance with the Safe Harbor framework enables it to better serve them.
Other companies that have taken it upon themselves to comply with the Safe Harbor include managed host INetU (www.inetu.net), which gained US-EU Safe Harbor certification in October 2008.
Supporting further worldwide expansion, HostDime also announced on Tuesday that it had completed a new 5,000 square-foot data and network operations center in Brazil, significantly expanding the capacity of its HostDime Brazil. When HostDime opened its Brazil division nearly three years ago, it had no plans to open a local data center, however, rising local demand made the facility necessary.
