A third party is anyone outside the business and the individual concerned who can access the personal data you’re responsible for. There are 2 types of third parties:

The end user is the individual who ultimately uses or is intended to ultimately use a product or a service.Here are two examples to help you understand:

The purposes are the principal objectives for which personal data are collected. These objectives should be clearly identified and personal data should never be processed in a way that is inconsistent with them.

Security measures are any technical or organizational protective measures taken to ensure the confidentiality of personal data, and preserve their integrity and availability.

Personal data cannot be kept indefinitely: a retention period must be determined according to the purpose for which the data was collected. The idea being to store data "as long as necessary" and "as short as possible", taking into account national legal rules that may impose fixed periods, and then to delete or anonymize them.

To process personal data a valid lawful basis is necessary. There are six available lawful bases for processing:Consent: The data subject has given clear and affirmative consent to the processing of their personal data for a specific purpose.Contract: The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.

A personal data is any information that identifies or can be used to identify an individual directly or indirectly. Examples of personal data include, but are not limited to: first and last name, date of birth, email address, postal address, gender, occupation, photography, or other demographic information.

We call "Processing Activity" every type of operation performed by your company that involves personal information.A processing activity can include collecting, consulting, recording, organizing, structuring storing, adapting, altering, retrieving, using, disclosing, disseminating, aligning, combining, erasing and destructing personal data.

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and Cloud Act are U.S legislations obliging American cloud providers to provide upon request to U.S intelligence agencies and courts individuals' data that they store, control and manage in the United States or even remotely.

According to the Article 32 of the GDPR, the processor has to implement and document appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk entailed by the processing activity, in particular:

A security policy is a formalized set of strategic elements, guidelines procedures, codes of conduct, organizational and technical rules, with the objective of protecting the business’ information system(s).

A Data Privacy Impact Assessment must be carried out by a controller when certain conditions are met and in compliance with Article 35 of the GDPR. It provides the assurance that privacy is adequately addressed, that risky processings are acknowledged and that the controller knows how to mitigate those risks for data subjects.

Data subjects have rights upon their personal data: right of access (Article 15), of rectification (Article 16), of erasure (Article 17) and objection (Article 21), right to the restriction of processing (Article 18), right to data portability (Article 20), right not to be subject to an automated individual decision (Article 22).

A personal data breach is a breach of security resulting in the destruction, loss, alteration or unauthorized disclosure of personal data.According to Article 33 of the GDPR, as a processor, you must notify controllers of any personal data breach as soon as possible after becoming aware of it and offer your assistance to assess the impacts on data subjects’ lives.

Location where data is stored is a paramount criteria for controllers. If servers hosting data are located in the European Union or in an adequate country, data transfers can be operated without additional safeguards as these countries’ legislations are protective enough of personal data and individuals’ rights.

A Privacy policy is an official document in which you need to sum up the goals and commitments you've settled in terms of privacy and data protection regarding your clients', employees' or customers' personal data. This document is to be published on your website and tool for everyone to see and read, your data subjects, third parties as well as supervisory authorities.

Under the GDPR, an EU representative is a person or organization that is based in the EU and is designated by a non-EU based organization to serve as a point of contact for individuals whose data is being processed, and for the relevant supervisory authority.

A Data Protection Officer (DPO) is a person who is responsible for overseeing the organization's compliance with data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union (EU).

In the context of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a subprocessor is a third-party service provider that processes personal data on behalf of another organization, known as the data controller. The GDPR sets out specific rules and requirements for the use of subprocessors, including the need for a written contract between the data controller and the subprocessor.

Whether or not you need a standard contractual clause (SCC) for your business depends on a number of factors, including the type of business you operate, the types of data you collect and process, and where you are located.

It depends on your business and what kind of data you are collecting and processing. In general, if you are collecting and processing personal data from individuals in the European Union (EU), you may need a data processing