When Checkout.com sends personal data to countries outside the EU or UK, it uses legal transfer mechanisms such as Standard Contractual Clauses or adequacy decisions to provide a baseline level of data protection.
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International data transfers mean personal financial and identity data may be processed in countries with different privacy laws, and the adequacy of protection depends on the specific mechanisms used and whether they remain legally valid under current rulings.
Interpretive note: The adequacy of specific transfer mechanisms depends on the destination country and supplementary measures in place, which the policy does not enumerate in detail; practical protection levels vary by transfer route.
EU and UK users' personal and financial data may be transferred to countries outside the EU/UK, including the United States, relying on Standard Contractual Clauses whose practical effectiveness depends on the transfer destination and any supplementary measures in place.
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Your personal information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction.
Your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or other countries outside of your country of residence, which may have data protection laws that are different from those in your country.
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"Where we transfer personal data outside the UK or EEA, we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place, such as Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission or UK International Data Transfer Agreements, or we rely on an adequacy decision.— Excerpt from Checkout.com's Checkout.com Privacy
1. REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: International data transfers engage GDPR Chapter V (Articles 44-49), UK GDPR Chapter V, and the ICO's international transfer framework. Standard Contractual Clauses must comply with the 2021 EU SCCs or UK IDTAs as applicable. Adequacy decisions relied upon must be current and not subject to pending legal challenge. The CJEU's Schrems II ruling established that SCCs alone may be insufficient without supplementary measures where the recipient country's surveillance laws do not meet EU standards. 2. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. Reliance on SCCs requires transfer impact assessments (TIAs) to evaluate whether the destination country's legal framework undermines the SCC protections, particularly for transfers to the United States given ongoing legal uncertainty prior to and following the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Failure to conduct TIAs creates regulatory exposure. 3. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU and UK data subjects have the strongest protections and the greatest regulatory scrutiny applies to transfers from those jurisdictions. Transfers to the US, India, and other countries without adequacy decisions require documented TIAs. Merchants with EU/UK customer data flowing through Checkout.com's processing infrastructure should map all transfer destinations. 4. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: DPAs with Checkout.com should specify the transfer mechanisms used for each destination country and include the required SCC modules or IDTA addenda. Procurement teams should request a list of Checkout.com's subprocessors and their locations to assess transfer risk. Any adequacy decisions relied upon should be monitored for validity. 5. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should maintain a register of international transfer mechanisms used by Checkout.com, conduct or request TIAs for high-risk transfer destinations, and monitor developments in EU-US data transfer adequacy. UK-specific IDTA requirements should be verified for UK-origin transfers separately from EU SCC compliance.
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International data transfers mean personal financial and identity data may be processed in countries with different privacy laws, and the adequacy of protection depends on the specific mechanisms used and whether they remain legally valid under current rulings.
EU and UK users' personal and financial data may be transferred to countries outside the EU/UK, including the United States, relying on Standard Contractual Clauses whose practical effectiveness depends on the transfer destination and any supplementary measures in place.
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