When you are answering the Privacy Policy questionnaire, you will be asked whether you want to provide the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 2018 rights to United Kingdom residents only or to everyone that visits your website or application, regardless of location. The UK Data Protection Act 2018 provides the following privacy rights to residents of the United Kingdom:
- The right to transparent information about your privacy practices;
- The right to access the personal information that you hold about them, and supplemental information about that personal information and your privacy practices;
- The right to rectify or correct any incorrect personal information that you hold about them;
- The right to delete the personal information that you hold about them;
- The right to restrict the processing of their personal information;
- The right to portability;
- The right to object to the processing of their personal information;
- The right not to be subject to decisions solely based on automated processing, including profiling.
By law, these rights are provided to residents of the United Kingdom only. However, some businesses may want to provide these rights to every website visitor as doing so can:
- Prevent the work inherent in confirming the individual's place of residence when they request to exercise their privacy rights;
- Reduce the confusion of individuals as to what privacy rights apply to them;
- Help reduce the length of your Privacy Policy, especially if you have to comply with multiple privacy laws.
To answer this question, select whether you'd like to offer the above privacy rights to United Kingdom residents only or to everyone that visits your website or application, regardless of location.