Compliance guide

The GDPR, one rule at a time, in ordinary words.

The regulation runs to ninety nine articles, and most guides quote them back at you. This one takes the 46 parts that actually ask an organisation to do something, says what each one wants in two or three sentences, gives an example from ordinary business life, and states plainly what Prudence does about it and what stays your decision.

Free to read, no account needed. It is a guide to the regulation, not legal advice.

The basics: what the law applies to

Whether the regulation applies to the organisation at all, and the words it uses for the parts that follow.

3 rules · Article 2 to Article 4

Principles and lawful grounds

The ground rules for handling personal data, and the reasons the law accepts for handling it at all.

7 rules · Article 5 to Article 11

What people can ask for

The requests individuals are entitled to make, and the deadlines for answering them.

11 rules · Article 12 to Article 22

What the organisation must put in place

The records, contracts, security and assessments the organisation is expected to be able to show.

16 rules · Article 24 to Article 39

Sending data outside the EU

What is needed before personal data reaches a country outside the European Economic Area.

6 rules · Article 44 to Article 49

Complaints, liability and fines

What happens when a breach occurs, and why the register matters at that moment.

3 rules · Article 77 to Article 83

Reading it is one thing. Keeping it up is another.

Prudence turns this guide into a working system: the list of what you do with people's data, the documents already written for you to adopt, and a short list of what still needs doing.

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