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Processor

A business that handles personal data for a controller and on its behalf, only on its instructions. Tressick is each End Customer's processor, because End Customers buy Tressick Payroll from Tressick. A processor that uses the data for its own ends becomes a controller for that use. Agreement 7.1 · Chapter 5 · see Controller, Sub-processor

Explained in Chapter 5, Data Protection: Controller, Processor, Sub-Processor, of White Label SaaS.

Also explained in Data Protection.

How it comes up, in Chapter 5
Data protection law gives each business that handles the data a role. A controller decides why the data is used and how. A processor handles the data on a controller's behalf. The law fixes each role by what the business does with the data, and the Agreement records the result…
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