Does your website comply with the various legal requirements applicable to SaaS suppliers who opeate a UK website? SaaS suppliers must provide the following information in an easily accessible position on their website:
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SaaS Agreements – New UK SCCs – IDTA and UK Addendum
Since the EU-US Privacy Shield was declared invalid following the Schrems II decision in 2020 of the ECJ, SaaS suppliers and SaaS customers have had to use EU standard contractual clauses, (“EU SCCs”) or binding corporate rules (“BCRs”) when transferring personal data from the EEA, UK or Switzerland to a third country not deemed “adequate” by the European Commission.
Continue readingSaaS Agreements – Cookies – Are your Cookie Banners Compliant
SaaS suppliers and SaaS customers should take note of three recent data protection fines issued against Facebook and Google by the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL“) for non-compliant cookie banners on their websites. The fines were issued pursuant to breaches of French Data Protection Law and the GDPR and highlight
Continue readingSaaS Agreements – Data Protection – New EU-US Privacy Shield?
Following the Schrems II judgement of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”), which invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield which resulted in the subsequent European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) final data transfer guidance, SaaS customers and SaaS suppliers are currently required to carry out a data transfer assessment (“DTA”) prior to transferring personal data outside of the EEA to a “third country” i.e. to a country which does not have an “adequacy decision” from the EU, for example, the USA.
Continue readingSaaS Agreements – FAQs – Cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on a user’s hardware device, such as a computer, tablet or mobile phone which record online activity. The majority of websites use cookies to measure visits and the use of websites (analytics cookies). Cookies are often also used to save user names, passwords and user preferences to make repeated use of a website more comfortable for the user. However, increasingly cookies are being used to collect information about users for the purposes of targeted marketing, tracking and other non essential purposes.
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