An Australian company hiring a developer abroad is really buying two things: a working product and a defensible answer to "where does our customers' data go?" The second one is where overseas engagements usually get vague. Here it is written down before the first line of code.
The Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles
The Privacy Act 1988 and its thirteen Australian Privacy Principles govern how personal information is collected, used, secured and disclosed, including disclosure to recipients outside Australia. The data model is planned with GDPR principles in mind, which cover many practical APP topics: purpose limitation, data minimisation, retention windows, access and correction, deletion, and a documented record of where data is processed.
What stays with you
Whether the Act applies to your organisation, what your privacy policy says and how you respond to a notifiable data breach are your obligations as the entity holding the data. A developer cannot take those over, and anyone promising to is selling something. What the build does is document how personal information actually moves through the system, so those obligations can be evidenced instead of asserted.
A contract that is easy to sign
The contracting party is DigitalFreedom Global LLC, registered in Wyoming, United States. Invoices are in US dollars. Scope, price and milestones are fixed in writing before the build starts, and code, cloud accounts and store listings are handed over in full.
The deal
- App Check $2,000 for an app you already have, First Version (MVP) from $27,800 for a new one
- Fixed price and scope in writing before the first line of code
- Market-ready app for iPhone and Android from one codebase from $83,300
- Remote and written, meetings by arrangement
- Full handover of code, cloud accounts and documentation
By city: Sydney and Melbourne. Next door: app developer for New Zealand. Ready to talk: get in touch.