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Sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by TrustArc Inc. · trustarc.com

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The Lead Auditor

Weighted verdict

Audits management systems for a living and has seen every folder of screenshots. Optimizes for revision-safe history, evidence packs on demand, and a defensible answer to "show me the state on date X". Rejects systems where the audit trail is assembled the week before the audit.

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Scored by The Lead Auditor

Records & DPIA depth

How this is scored

The DSMS core: records of processing (RoPA/VVT), data protection impact assessments, processor/DPA management and TOMs — how deeply the legal artifacts are modeled and connected.

0 — Document templates in a folder tree; the "register" is a Word file with version numbers in the filename.

3 — A structured RoPA with basic fields and a DPIA questionnaire, but processors, TOMs and legal bases live outside the system.

5 — RoPA and DPIA as linked modules with templates; processor management and TOM assignment exist but are shallow, and group reuse is copy-paste.

8 — A connected data model — processing activities linked to systems, processors, TOMs and legal bases — with DPIA triggers derived from the record, reusable group templates, and outputs a supervisory authority accepts.

10 — Privacy records as a system of record: the RoPA drives DPIAs, processor management and TOM coverage from one data model, multi-client/mandate capability included, and the documentation is audit-ready without manual assembly.

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The Lead Auditor

Data Mapping & Risk Manager connects processing context — purpose, legal basis, retention — to system and vendor records, derives DPIA/PIA triggers from detected high-risk activities, and produces on-demand Article 30 reports, with the Record Exchange providing reusable templates and AI autofill for records. We found no public information on TOM assignment or multi-client mandate handling, which is what separates this from a fully connected system of record. 4 5 9

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Data subject rights & incidents

How this is scored

The operational half of the DSMS: data subject request handling with statutory clocks, breach register and authority notification, deletion concepts that actually delete.

0 — Requests arrive by email and live there; breaches are a phone call and a memo.

3 — A request log and a breach list exist, but deadlines are manual, intake is unstructured, and deletion rules are documentation rather than workflow.

5 — DSR workflows with the Art. 12 clock tracked, structured breach register with the 72-hour clock, deletion concepts assignable to records; automation is reminders.

8 — Intake channels for requests (portal/form), identity-check support, deadline automation with escalation, breach severity assessment and authority-report output, deletion rules tied to the RoPA with execution tracking.

10 — Rights and incidents as operations: end-to-end request handling an authority audit walks through, breach workflows that produce the Art. 33 notification, and deletion automation with evidence that the deletion happened.

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The Lead Auditor

Individual Rights Manager is evidenced as end-to-end request fulfilment with a form intake channel, jurisdiction-aware time frames across 24+ regimes, and automated search, update and deletion across 300+ connected data systems. We found no public information on a structured breach register, the 72-hour authority clock, or authority-report output — the incident half rests on an outcome claim in a commissioned study — and no evidence that a deletion's execution is tracked and provable. 3 6 11

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Privacy regime coverage

How this is scored

Which privacy regimes the product actually operationalizes — GDPR, BDSG, Swiss nDSG, UK GDPR, ePrivacy, EU AI Act privacy duties — and whether one record maps across them or each regime is a fresh island.

0 — One regime, hard-coded; anything else is "on the roadmap".

3 — GDPR plus one national law as separate checklists; the same processing activity is documented once per regime.

5 — The major regimes for its market with partial cross-mapping; newer duties (AI Act, ePrivacy changes) present as content packs of varying depth.

8 — Broad current coverage with one-record-many-regimes mapping and visible maintenance as regimes evolve.

10 — Regime coverage as a living product: multiple privacy regimes on one data basis, per-country variants, and documented update cadence when the law moves.

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The Lead Auditor

A risk engine scoring system and vendor records against 130+ mapped laws, Nymity legal summaries across 244+ jurisdictions, and named coverage of GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, India's DPDP and Virginia CDPA plus a Responsible AI offering evidence one record feeding many regimes. We found no public information on European member-state variants such as the Swiss nDSG or on a documented update cadence when the law moves. 5 6 9

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Audit readiness & evidence

How this is scored

Whether the system produces defensible proof: revision-safe history, evidence collection, reports for auditors, authorities and management.

0 — Exports are screenshots; history is overwritten in place.

3 — PDF reports exist but evidence is attached ad hoc and changes leave no reliable trail.

5 — Versioned records, standard report generators for the core registers, evidence attachments per activity; assembling a full audit file still takes days.

8 — Revision-safe change history, audit-scoped evidence packs on demand, management and authority reports current at a click, auditor access roles.

10 — Audit readiness as a standing state: continuous documentation status per regime and scope, exportable proof packs an auditor accepts as-is, and a defensible answer to "show me the state on date X".

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The Lead Auditor

One-click regulator-ready reports, on-demand Article 30 output and dashboards are evidenced, alongside a certification loop with annual external reviews — solid report generation for the core registers. We found no public information on revision-safe change history, audit-scoped evidence packs, or auditor access roles, so the pages give me no way to answer "show me the state on date X", which caps it here. 4 5 10

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Integrations & automation

How this is scored

Whether the platform feeds from the real IT estate — directory import, ticketing, API — and automates the recurring privacy work instead of re-typing it.

0 — A closed island: manual entry in, PDF out, no API.

3 — CSV/Excel import and export; no live connections, no API worth the name.

5 — Directory import (AD/Entra), a documented REST API for core objects, a handful of native connectors (ticketing or SSO); automation is reminders and recurrence.

8 — Real connector set (ticketing, HR or asset sources), webhooks, SSO/SCIM, workflow automation with delegation and escalation, useful AI assistance with human review.

10 — The platform behaves like infrastructure: API parity for the data model, event streams, bidirectional sync with the estate, and automation that measurably removes the recurring toil (reviews, attestations, evidence pulls) rather than renaming it.

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The Lead Auditor

A library of 300+ prebuilt connectors with a no-code drag-and-drop builder, all-apps-to-all-connectors coverage, ready templates for consent syncing, DSR fulfilment and vendor onboarding, and discovery partners (BigID, Next.sec) that auto-create and update inventory records is a genuine feed from the IT estate, with AI autofill kept under a human review layer. We found no public information on a documented REST API, webhooks, or SSO/SCIM provisioning, which keeps this short of infrastructure grade. 2 5 12

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the compliance record of the whole company actually lives and under whose law — entity, hosting, subprocessors, DPA. A platform that maps your processing is itself your most concentrated processing.

0 — Non-EU entity, non-EU-default hosting, no public DPA or subprocessor list — for the system holding your RoPA.

3 — A DPA exists and an EU region is available on request or on top tiers; subprocessor exposure to US CLOUD Act reach is broad or undocumented.

5 — EU hosting is the default, DPA and subprocessor list published; the vendor or a critical subprocessor is still within non-European jurisdictional reach.

8 — EU entity, EU hosting with named data centers, published subprocessor list free of content-touching non-EU processors, DPA and TOMs public.

10 — Jurisdictionally clean end to end: European ownership, EU-only hosting and subprocessors, on-premises or sovereign-cloud options, and the whole chain documented publicly.

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The Lead Auditor

The vendor is a US company subject to FTC investigatory and enforcement powers, with a published sub-processor list reference and DPF certifications but no captured confirmation of where customer compliance records are hosted. We found no public information on EU hosting defaults, data residency, ownership after the 2025 sale, or the contents of the sub-processor list — a US-reachable entity holding the RoPA is what the evidence supports. 3 11

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real invoice — per module, per entity, per year, with consulting unbundled — from public pages alone. Unpublished pricing is the B2B norm in this market, so this criterion describes rather than condemns; the benches weight it accordingly.

0 — No public prices at all; every configuration is a sales conversation.

3 — An entry price exists, but module add-ons, entity counts or bundled consulting make the real total incomputable.

5 — Most editions carry real numbers with billing period stated and software separated from services; at least one commonly needed module or scale step is unpriced.

8 — Every edition and module priced publicly with entity/user boundaries and setup fees stated; only genuine corporate-group contracts are custom.

10 — Complete price computability: modules, scale steps, service packages and renewal rules public, so the invoice for a 100-employee company and a 10-client consultancy is a two-minute exercise.

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The Lead Auditor

We found no public information on prices: the captured pages carry product family names, solution lists and a commissioned ROI study, but no edition figures, module prices, billing periods or setup fees. As is the B2B norm in this market, every configuration appears to be a sales conversation. 1 2 11

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European sovereignty — proven facts

1 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

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Sources (13)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage trustarc.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Products page trustarc.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Privacy policy trustarc.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap trustarc.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap trustarc.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Data subject rights & incidents — found from sitemap trustarc.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Data subject rights & incidents — found from sitemap trustarc.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Privacy regime coverage — found from sitemap trustarc.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Privacy regime coverage — found from sitemap trustarc.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap trustarc.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap trustarc.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap trustarc.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap trustarc.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →