Glossary of Compliance

Compliance Glossary

Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.

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EU-US and Swiss Privacy Shield

The EU-US and Swiss Privacy Shield frameworks were designed by the European Commission and Swiss Administration and the U.S.Department of Commerce, respectively, to cater for companies on both sides of the Atlantic with a mechanism that complies with data protection requirements when personal data is transferred from the European Union as well as Switzerland to the United States in support of transatlantic Commerce.

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