Data Processing Agreement
(hereinafter the “Agreement”)

1.1. Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms and expressions used in this Agreement shall have the following meaning:

1.1.1. "Agreement" means this Data Processing Agreement and all Schedules;

1.1.2. "Company Personal Data" means any Personal Data Processed by a Contracted Processor on behalf of Company pursuant to or in connection with the Principal Agreement;

1.1.3. "Contracted Processor" means a Subprocessor;

1.1.4. "Data Protection Laws" means EU Data Protection Laws and, to the extent applicable, the data protection or privacy laws of any other country;

1.1.5. "EEA" means the European Economic Area;

1.1.6. "EU Data Protection Laws" means EU Directive 95/46/EC, as transposed into domestic legislation of each Member State and as amended, replaced or superseded from time to time, including by the GDPR and laws implementing or supplementing the GDPR;

1.1.7. "GDPR" means EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679;

1.1.8. "Data Transfer" means:

1.1.8.1. a transfer of Company Personal Data from the Company to a Contracted Processor; or

1.1.8.2. an onward transfer of Company Personal Data from a Contracted Processor to a Subcontracted Processor, or between two establishments of a Contracted Processor, in each case, where such transfer would be prohibited by Data Protection Laws (or by the terms of data transfer agreements put in place to address the data transfer restrictions of Data Protection Laws);

1.1.9. "Services" means the Processor sells or licenses an application that the Company installs on its website using java script code or sdk for mobile applications. Using the Processor's personal account, Company employees can ask their customers to participate in a survey to get feedback from them about issues of interest to the Company.

1.1.10. "Subprocessor" means any person appointed by or on behalf of Processor to process Personal Data on behalf of the Company in connection with the Agreement.

1.2. The terms, "Commission", "Controller", "Data Subject", "Member State", "Personal Data", "Personal Data Breach", "Processing" and "Supervisory Authority" shall have the same meaning as in the GDPR, and their cognate terms shall be construed accordingly.

2.1. Processor shall:

2.1.1. comply with all applicable Data Protection Laws in the Processing of Company Personal Data; and

2.1.2. not Process Company Personal Data other than on the relevant Company’s documented instructions.

2.2. The Company instructs Processor to process Company Personal Data.

3.1. Processor shall take reasonable steps to ensure the reliability of any employee, agent or contractor of any Contracted Processor who may have access to the Company Personal Data, ensuring in each case that access is strictly limited to those individuals who need to know / access the relevant Company Personal Data, as strictly necessary for the purposes of the Principal Agreement, and to comply with Applicable Laws in the context of that individual's duties to the Contracted Processor, ensuring that all such individuals are subject to confidentiality undertakings or professional or statutory obligations of confidentiality. Only authorized persons (Processor employees), have access to this data. Only senior Processor employees and management have access to this data. Product-related teams are the Processor teams that are responsible for the operational development, support, maintenance, and testing of the Processor software. Other teams/units such as Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, Office Management and Finance do not have access to this data. All Processor employees have signed a non-disclosure statement and are aware that no information may be disclosed.

4.1. Taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of Processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, Processor shall in relation to the Company Personal Data implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to that risk, including, as appropriate, the measures referred to in Article 32(1) of the GDPR.

4.2. In assessing the appropriate level of security, Processor shall take account in particular of the risks that are presented by Processing, in particular from a Personal Data Breach.

4.3. Processor uses Amazon Web Services (AWS), an international ISO 21001 accredited organization based in Dublin, Ireland, where personal data is stored. In accordance with the terms of the contract with AWS, data remains within Europe and is retained only upon direct request.

4.4. To prevent the risk of data loss, backups are performed every day and backups are stored for one month.

4.5. Personal data is stored encrypted in a database.

5.1. Processor shall not appoint (or disclose any Company Personal Data to) any Subprocessor unless required or authorized by the Company.

6.1. Taking into account the nature of the Processing, Processor shall assist the Company by implementing appropriate technical and organizational measures, insofar as this is possible, for the fulfillment of the Company obligations, as reasonably understood by Company, to respond to requests to exercise Data Subject rights under the Data Protection Laws.

6.2. Processor shall:

6.2.1. promptly notify Company if it receives a request from a Data Subject under any Data Protection Law in respect of Company Personal Data; and

6.2.2. ensure that it does not respond to that request except on the documented instructions of Company or as required by Applicable Laws to which the Processor is subject, in which case Processor shall to the extent permitted by Applicable Law inform Company of that legal requirement before the Contracted Processor responds to the request.

7.1. If a security breach or data leak is detected by the Processor, the Company will be notified as soon as possible and in any event within 24 hours of the detection, and the Processor will provide the Client with all information it has on the data breach or leak. Further action will be taken in accordance with the 'Procedure for Reporting and Handling Data Breaches'.

7.2. Processor shall cooperate with the Company and take reasonable commercial steps as are directed by Company to assist in the investigation, mitigation and remediation of each such Personal Data Breach.

8.1. Processor shall provide reasonable assistance to the Company with any data protection impact assessments, and prior consultations with Supervising Authorities or other competent data privacy authorities, which Company reasonably considers to be required by article 35 or 36 of the GDPR or equivalent provisions of any other Data Protection Law, in each case solely in relation to Processing of Company Personal Data by, and taking into account the nature of the Processing and information available to, the Contracted Processors.

9.1. Subject to this section 9 Processor shall promptly and in any event within 10 business days of the date of cessation of any Services involving the Processing of Company Personal Data (the "Cessation Date"), delete and procure the deletion of all copies of those Company Personal Data.

9.2. Processor shall provide written certification to Company that it has fully complied with this section 9 within 10 business days of the Cessation Date.

10.1. Subject to this section 10, Processor shall make available to the Company on request all information necessary to demonstrate compliance with this Agreement, and shall allow for and contribute to audits, including inspections, by the Company or an auditor mandated by the Company in relation to the Processing of the Company Personal Data by the Contracted Processors.

10.2. Information and audit rights of the Company only arise under section 10.1 to the extent that the Agreement does not otherwise give them information and audit rights meeting the relevant requirements of Data Protection Law.

11.1. The Processor may not transfer or authorize the transfer of Data to countries outside the EU and/or the European Economic Area (EEA) without the prior written consent of the Company. If personal data processed under this Agreement is transferred from a country within the European Economic Area to a country outside the European Economic Area, the Parties shall ensure that the personal data are adequately protected. To achieve this, the Parties shall, unless agreed otherwise, rely on EU approved standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data.

12.1. Confidentiality. Each Party must keep this Agreement and information it receives about the other Party and its business in connection with this Agreement (“Confidential Information”) confidential and must not use or disclose that Confidential Information without the prior written consent of the other Party except to the extent that:
disclosure is required by law;
the relevant information is already in the public domain.

12.2. Notices. All notices and communications given under this Agreement must be in writing and will be delivered personally, sent by post or sent by email to the address or email address set out in the heading of this Agreement at such other address as notified from time to time by the Parties changing address.

13.1. If you have any questions about the DPA, please contact the Processor's Data Protection Officer (DPO) at [email protected].