The ICO exists to empower you through information.

This guidance discusses documentation in detail. Read it if you have detailed questions not answered in the Guide, or if you need a deeper understanding to help you apply documentation in practice. DPOs and those with specific data protection responsibilities in larger organisations are likely to find it useful.

If you haven’t yet read documentation in brief in the Guide to GDPR, you should read that first. It sets out the key points you need to know, along with practical checklists to help you comply.

Contents

What is documentation?

Who needs to document their processing activities?

What do we need to document under Article 30 of the GDPR?

Should we document anything else?

How do we document our processing activities?