Define data handling. Protect privacy

A data contract is an agreement (often formally reached) between a data producer and a data consumer - say, your mobile app and the engineering team processing the data. It describes which data is present and of what shape (for instance alphanumeric or an integral number). Our data contracts add the privacy perspective on top and formally describe how data should be transformed, and handled and for which purposes it can be used. Stakeholders from both the privacy and data perspective can collaborate on reaching the data contract agreement.

Defining data handling for privacy is the process of ensuring your data is handled as your policies promise. In the real world, there is often a gap between these two. Alignment takes complicated coordination between privacy/legal stakeholders and data/engineering. STRM allows you to simplify this process by agreeing on data handling for privacy through data contracts. A data contract is a formal agreement that describes and implements how data should be handled, processed, and for which purposes it can be used.