Value Propositions
Explore how Europrivacy can address your needs, by reducing your risks and costs, building trust, and turning your compliance into a source of competitive advantages and value creation. Discover our Europrivacy overview and testimonials. Assess its business value and certification costs, and estimate your benefits with our ROI Calculator. Compare Europrivacy with ISO/IEC 27001, 27701, and other certifications and other GDPR mechanisms (SCC, BRC, CC). Explore our regulatory extensions and other schemes or download the Europrivacy White Paper.
Benefits and Added Value
- Reduce legal, financial, and reputational risks.
- Value your compliance as a competitive advantage and source of revenues.
- Benefit from GDPR legal effects, including to demonstrate adequacy of data controllers (Art. 24 GDPR), processors (Art. 28 GDPR), security (Art. 32 GDPR), and data protection by design and by default Art. 25 GDPR).
- Check, document, and demonstrate compliance through impartial third-party assessment.
- Simplify and homogenize compliance management with criteria recognized by all EU and EEA national authorities.
- Protect international data transfers (Art. 46 GDPR).
- Build Trust and Confidence for your Data Subjects, B2B Partners, and Stakeholders.
- Improve reputation and market access.
- Reduce risks and costs with data processors, by requesting their certification (Art. 28 GDPR).
- Extend compliance assessment to non-EU jurisdictions.
- Join a business ecosystem committed to data protection.
- Access online resources and tools for data protection and compliance.
- Receive updates on compliance requirements.
- Increase market valuation, by reducing risks and uncertainty for investors.
Europrivacy Uniqueness
- Only GDPR certification approved by the EU (EDPB) to be used internationally by European and non-European companies.
- Only recognized mechanism for international data transfer under Art. 46 GDPR.
- Fit for both data controllers and processors.
- Interoperable and easily combinable with ISO 27001.
- Cost-efficient assessment.
- Supported by a global ecosystem of official partners in over 150 countries, including world leaders in certification, consulting, and legal services.
- Fully interoperable with Interprivacy, the international data protection certification scheme approved by Global ACI (former IAF) and its 99 national accreditation bodies.
- Easily extendable to other regulations, including non-European data regulations.
- Designed to encompass innovative technologies such as AI, blockchain, and IoT.
- Highest CSEM score with 35/35 according to the Certification Scheme Evaluation Methodology.
- Maintained by an International Board of Experts.
- Supported by the European research community.
- Supported by an online academy and resources, and major solution providers.
- Available in several languages.
- No customer lock-in: freely choose among a large set of qualified service providers.
“The GDPR sets forth principles and targets but does not give the means to achieve those goals. The Europrivacy certification raised some questions, offered multiple angles for data protection and made us think differently. It also materially enables us to be more efficient operationally. The fact that we can officially indicate that an independent third party has considered our platform to be compliant with different controls, provides added value with clients and stakeholders.”
“The Europrivacy certification significantly mitigates our risks, reducing the likelihood of data breaches and noncompliance penalties, and is a powerful tool for building trust with our clients, partners and stakeholders. It acts as a safeguard internally, but also enables to reinforce insurance for clients. It not only validates our compliance efforts but enhances our reputation as a responsible and trustworthy organization and fosters a culture of compliance within your organization by educating and training the team.”
“Achieving Europrivacy certification reflects the deep work our team has done to embed privacy, ethics and compliance by design into the foundation of Piano Analytics. Passing audits on the Europrivacy scheme confirms that these principles are not just aspirational, but that they're operational. This is a recognition we're proud to share with our clients and partners.”
“Beyond a competitive advantage, passing the Europrivacy certification has helped us form an extensive overview of our data processing processes and the documentation required to substantiate our compliance. It helped us assess all aspects of the GPDR requirements and make sure we don't overlook any of them. For us, it's already bearing fruit. We've got a lot of feedback from our stakeholders - data producers, our scientific committee members, the media. We've also received new requests from potential partners following our certification. It's a competitive advantage, but it also provides visibility to the public and partners.”
“Europrivacy is a mark of trust for us. It shows that we don’t just talk of privacy, but we act on it. For our customers it means that their data is protected, for our employees it means that we work in a responsible company, for our partners and investors, it means we manage risks well, and for the regulators, it means that we follow the law and go beyond the minimum requirements.”
“Europrivacy answered to all our necessities, it is well structured for third-party assessment but also to implement controls and the ECCP's expert team makes the difference when it comes to the application of the Scheme. The Seal is the evidence that the company is mitigating risks and focuses on what really matters, data subjects' rights and necessities and giving an answer to the market's needs. My advice to those interested to opt for a certification is to not be afraid of the process and engage Certification Bodies and all the experts of the Europrivacy ecosystem from the very beginning.”
