The GDPR Compliance Checklist

Achieving GDPR Compliance shouldn't feel like a struggle. This is a basic checklist you can use to harden your GDPR compliancy.

if your organisation is determining the purpose of the storage or processing of personal information, it is considered a controller. If your organisation stores or processes personal data on behalf of another organisation, it is considered a processor. It is possible for your organisation to have both roles. Use the filter below to view only the relevant checklist items for your organisation.

This list is far from a legal exhaustive document, it merely tries to help you overcome the struggle.

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Select your role:

  • Data Controller: I determine why data is processed

  • Data Processor: I store or process data for someone else

  • Data Subject: My data is being stored or processed

Data

  • Your company has a list of all types of personal information it holds, the source of that information, who you share it with, what you do with it and how long you will keep it

    • Data Processor
    • Data Controller
  • Your company has a list of places where it keeps personal information and the ways data flows between them

    • Data Processor
    • Data Controller
  • Your company has a publicly accessible privacy policy that outlines all processes related to personal data.

    • Data Processor
    • Data Controller
  • Your privacy policy should include a lawful basis to explain why the company needs to process personal information

    • Data Controller

Accountability & management

New rights

Follow-up

Special cases

User Rights

  • Right to receive transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of your rights.

    • Data Subject
  • Right to receive specific information when your personal data are collected from you directly.

    • Data Subject
  • Right to receive specific information when your personal data are not collected from you directly.

    • Data Subject
  • Right of access: You have the right to obtain from the controller confirmation as to whether or not your personal data are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to your personal data.

    • Data Subject
  • Right to rectification: You have the right to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data.

    • Data Subject
  • Right to erasure: You have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of your personal data without undue delay.

    • Data Subject
  • Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to obtain from the controller restriction of processing.

    • Data Subject
  • Right to be notified regarding rectification or erasure of your personal data or restriction of processing: The controller shall communicate any rectification or erasure of your personal data or restriction of processing.

    • Data Subject
  • Right to portability: You have the right to receive your personal data, which you have provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which your personal data have been provided.

    • Data Subject
  • Right to object: You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of your personal data which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1), including profiling based on those provisions.

    • Data Subject
  • Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects you.

    • Data Subject
Disclaimer

The information above is not the same as legal advice, where an attorney applies the law to your specific circumstances, so we insist that you consult an attorney if you’d like advice on your interpretation of this information or its accuracy. In a nutshell, you may not rely on this as legal advice, nor as a recommendation of any particular legal understanding.