Data Protection · glossary
The party that decides why personal data is used, and its essentials: which data, whose, for how long and who may see it. Corrandale is the controller of its care workers’ data in the app. Tennerby controls only its own records, such as bills and support desk chats. Agreement, clause 2.1 · Chapter 1 · see Processor
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The main page for this term is Controller, in White Label SaaS.
A business that hands its staff data to a software supplier stays in charge of that data. The business is the controller: it decides why and how the data is used. The supplier is its processor: it holds and uses the data only for the business. The law makes them sign a written contract, a data processing agreement, that says what the processor may do.Read Chapter 1, Data Protection Work for a Software Supplier →
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This term is part of one fictional software supplier's year, with every document attached and a test after every chapter. Open Data Protection → · All terms A–Z →