The Anatomy of a Data Privacy Impact Assessment

Data Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is an internal business process that organizations that process personal information use to tackle potential data privacy risks of their technologies, products, systems, processes, and business in general. The goal is to help the organization proactively understand their data privacy risks, and build processes and procedures around mitigating those risks. Data Privacy Regulations, and your Enterprise Customers recommend, and sometimes require, conducting PIA’s – so it may be in your best interest to familiarize yourself with them. This post will give you a high level overview of what goes into a Data Privacy Impact Assessment.

The Anatomy of a Referral Partner Agreement

Building a referral (or partner) program is a method often employed by Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies to grow, without the need to hire tons of sales representatives. Just like any other business arrangement, there should be an appropriate written agreement in place between your business and the referral partner outlining how the arrangement will work with provisions to protect your business. If your SaaS company is planning to build out a referral program – this post will give you a high level overview of what should be in a referral program agreement.