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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Privacy Notice

Also known as a fair processing notice, a privacy notice is one of many documented notifications that must be provided to customers and other parties. Under the rules of the GDPR, every data controller must provide customers with information on how they plan to store and process their personal information. This notification serves two purposes—

(1) to ensure the data processor builds a sense of trust by helping data subjects understand how their data is being processed and

(2) to enable data subjects to have more control over the way their data is being used

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