Knowing what the law requires is only the beginning. You also need the right processes, tools, and documentation to put those requirements into practice.
The resources in this section can help you understand what data you have, how it moves through your organisation, and how to document your practices. These are general data management tools rather than privacy products, but each supports work that personal data protection requires.
A tool can support good governance, but no tool makes an organisation compliant by itself. Compliance depends on how your organisation uses these tools, the processes around them, and the requirements that apply to you.
You can't govern data you can't see. A data catalog helps you understand what data your organisation holds, where it comes from, who is responsible for it, and how it is used.
Data lineage shows where data comes from, how it changes, and where it goes as it moves through your organisation. This can help you understand how personal data flows between systems, identify who or what uses it, investigate data quality issues, and support privacy activities such as records of processing and deletion requests.
Privacy laws often require organisations to take reasonable steps to keep personal data accurate and up to date. Data quality tools can help you find problems such as missing, invalid, inconsistent, or outdated data. They can also help you test data automatically and catch problems before they spread to other systems.
A data contract defines what a dataset should contain and how it should behave. It can specify things such as the expected fields, data types, allowed values, ownership, and quality requirements. Data contracts help teams agree on what data producers should provide and what data consumers can rely on. They can also make it easier to detect changes that could affect downstream systems.
Documentation is part of good governance. It helps people understand what data you have, how it is used, who is responsible for it, and what rules apply. Treating documentation and policies as code means keeping them in version-controlled files and updating them through the same workflows used for software. This makes changes easier to review, track, and audit.
The documents every compliance programme needs, ready to adapt.