There is an external benefit and an internal benefit to the Europrivacy certification. From an internal perspective, it is a risk management process where you have certain findings, you remediate them, and get better. For external benefits, you are showing to the customers, to the employees, and to the investors that data is safe here, proven by the European Data Protection Seal, which increases the trust of the stakeholders in your organisation and data handling.

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.

Certification makes trust tangible. It provides independent, third-party validation that our privacy commitments are not only well-intentioned, but effectively implemented. For employees, customers, partners and regulators, it sends a very clear message. Privacy is governed. It is controlled. And it is taken seriously at the highest level.

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 GDPR 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.