Policy Document·36 mapped controls

What this policy is

The customer- / data-subject-facing statement of how personal data is collected, used, shared, retained, and protected — covering lawful basis, data-subject rights, and contact for privacy inquiries.

Why every organization needs one

Privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA, DPDP) require a published privacy notice as a baseline obligation. This is also the document customer counsel reads before signing a DPA.

What a competent Privacy Policy typically contains

  • Purpose and scope
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Definitions
  • Categories of personal data collected
  • Purposes and lawful basis per category
  • Data-subject rights + how to exercise them
  • Retention + cross-border transfer disclosures
  • Review cadence (typically annual) and version control
  • Approval, sign-off and effective date

How iCompaas tracks this policy

The icompaas policy-doc producer manages this document through an 8-state lifecycle: draft → generated → internal_qa → customer_review → in_review → approved → signed (with rejected as a terminal side-state). The producer publishes a policy_doc_privacy_policy_signed compliance finding once at least one document of this kind reaches the signed state for the account being assessed; the finding then rolls up into every compliance framework that references this policy (see the table below).

Compliance frameworks that reference this policy

The icompaas compliance controls library links every policy document to the controls in each framework that require, evidence, or otherwise rely on it. Below: every control across every framework in the iCompaas catalogue that names this policy as part of its evidence base. Each control links to its own dedicated page with auditor-view content + implementation guidance.

FrameworkControlTitleComponent
ISO/IEC 27001:2022A.5.34Privacy and protection of personal identifiable information (PII)Organizational controls
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.2.2Identify and document purposeConditions for collection and processing
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.2.3Identify lawful basisConditions for collection and processing
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.2.4Determine when/how consent obtainedConditions for collection and processing
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.2.5Obtain & record consentConditions for collection and processing
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.2.7Contracts with PII processorsConditions for collection and processing
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.2.9Records related to processing PIIConditions for collection and processing
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.3.3Information for PII principalsObligations to PII principals
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.3.4Providing info to PII principalsObligations to PII principals
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.3.5Modify/withdraw consentObligations to PII principals
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.3.6Mechanism to objectObligations to PII principals
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.3.7Access / correction / erasureObligations to PII principals
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.3.10Handling requestsObligations to PII principals
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.4.4Accuracy & qualityPrivacy by design / default
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.4.5PII minimization objectivesPrivacy by design / default
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.4.10PII transmission controlsPrivacy by design / default
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.5.3Countries to which PII transferredPII sharing, transfer & disclosure
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.1.5.5Records of disclosuresPII sharing, transfer & disclosure
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.2.2.3Organization's purposesConditions for collection and processing (processors)
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.2.2.4Marketing & advertising useConditions for collection and processing (processors)
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.2.4.4PII transmission controlsPrivacy by design / default (processors)
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.2.5.3Countries to which PII transferredPII sharing, transfer & disclosure (processors)
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.2.5.4Records of PII disclosuresPII sharing, transfer & disclosure (processors)
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.2.5.5Notification of requestsPII sharing, transfer & disclosure (processors)
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.2.5.7Disclosure of subcontractorsPII sharing, transfer & disclosure (processors)
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.3.3Information security policiesSecurity considerations (controllers/processors)
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.3.7Information transferSecurity considerations
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.3.9Access rightsSecurity considerations
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.3.14Protection of recordsSecurity considerations
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.3.22User endpoint devicesSecurity considerations
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.3.24Information backupSecurity considerations
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.3.25LoggingSecurity considerations
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.3.26Use of cryptographySecurity considerations
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.3.29Secure system architectureSecurity considerations
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.3.30Outsourced developmentSecurity considerations
ISO/IEC 27701:2025A.3.31Test informationSecurity considerations

36 controls across 2 frameworks reference this policy.

About this page

This article is part of the iCompaas Policy Documents library — one page per signed-document type the icompaas policy-doc producer tracks for customer accounts. The article is intentionally framework-agnostic: a customer signing a policy of this kind gets the same regulatory benefit across every framework that references it.