A single annual fee will provide privacy professionals with the skills, knowledge and tools they require to protect the organisation against the risks arising from privacy-related incidents.

Central to the benefit of participating in the Group is the pooling of fees to create high-quality deliverables. Organisation receive a broad range of benefits, including:

• reduced privacy management costs: by implementing privacy policies and processes that conform with best practice, organisations can avoid the cost of repetitive, ineffective or short-term initiatives that deliver little long-term value. Consultancy costs can be avoided by drawing upon the pool of knowledge within the Enterprise Privacy Group, and training and conference costs are absorbed in the annual subscription fee;
• reduced privacy-related risks: best practice guidelines and timely expert intelligence can be used to ensure that the organisation minimises its exposure to privacy-related risks and consequential losses;
• improved brand value: by acknowledging its participation in the Enterprise Privacy Group, the organisation can demonstrate its commitment to good privacy practices and enhance the perceived value of its brand amongst business partners, competitors and consumers;
• improved customer retention and new business opportunities: by demonstrating respect for the proper use of personal information, the organisation will find it easier to retain existing customers and gain new contacts;
• improved staff retention: individual privacy professionals will benefit from their participation in Enterprise Privacy Group activities, and come to see this as an employment benefit that encourages them to remain with the organisation.

Privacy professionals whose organisations join the Enterprise Privacy Group will benefit from:

• best practice information: access to information about the privacy policies, based upon benchmarking information that enables participants to assess their privacy activities in comparison with other similar organisations;
• trusted deliverables: participation in the development of privacy management solutions that can be used within each organisation;
• timely intelligence: access to analysis and advice on urgent privacy issues.
• expert opinion: access to the experience of a broad spectrum of privacy professionals;
• professional support: input from other privacy professionals who can provide assurance that initiatives conform with best practice thinking in other similar organisations;
• peer support: the opportunity to network with peers in other organisations in a confidential and trusted environment through projects, quarterly meetings and an annual conference.