Data Protection · glossary
A party that holds and uses personal data only for a controller, on its documented instructions. Tennerby is Corrandale’s processor. A processor that starts to decide why data is used becomes a controller of that use. Agreement, clause 2.1 · Chapter 1 · see Controller, Sub-processor
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The main page for this term is Processor, 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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