If you are in Europe or the UK, you have legal rights under GDPR to see, correct, delete, or move your data, and to object to Visa using it for marketing.
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These rights are legally enforceable under GDPR and EU national implementing laws, meaning Visa must respond to valid requests within defined timeframes and cannot simply decline without a lawful basis.
New dedicated GDPR/UK data protection rights section replacing generic international transfer language, signaling stronger compliance emphasis in European markets.
View full change record →EU and UK residents can formally request access to, correction of, or deletion of their personal data held by Visa, and can object to marketing-related processing, with Visa legally required to respond under GDPR.
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If you are located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom, you have the right to access, correct, or erase your personal data; the right to restrict or object to our processing of your personal data; the right to data portability; and, where our processing is based on your...
Depending on where you are located, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict processing of your personal information, the right to data portability, and the right to object to or withdraw consent for certain processi...
For individuals in the United States, please also refer to our Notice For Individuals Residing In Certain US States below and the Consumer Health Data Policy.
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"If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you may have certain rights under applicable data protection law, including the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict processing of your personal information, the right to data portability, and the right to object to processing, including processing for direct marketing purposes.— Excerpt from Visa's Visa Privacy Notice
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly engages GDPR Articles 15 through 22, which establish data subject rights including access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection. UK GDPR imposes equivalent obligations following Brexit. Supervisory authorities in each EU member state and the UK Information Commissioner's Office have enforcement jurisdiction. Failure to respond to data subject requests within the statutory one-month timeframe can result in regulatory complaints and fines. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The acknowledgment of GDPR rights is standard and required. The governance exposure arises from operational compliance: Visa processes data for hundreds of millions of individuals and must maintain systems capable of identifying, locating, and acting on data subject requests across its global infrastructure within GDPR's response timelines. Given the scale and complexity of Visa's data architecture, fulfilling access and erasure requests for transaction data may present operational challenges. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU and UK data subjects can escalate unresolved data subject requests to national supervisory authorities or the ICO. Lead supervisory authority jurisdiction under GDPR's one-stop-shop mechanism depends on Visa's main establishment in the EU. Cross-border data transfer mechanisms such as Standard Contractual Clauses or adequacy decisions govern transfers of EU data outside the EEA and should be assessed for current validity. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Organizations acting as joint controllers or processors with Visa for EU data should confirm that data subject request obligations and response timelines are clearly allocated in data processing agreements. Controller-to-controller agreements should specify which party is responsible for responding to data subject requests for shared datasets. Vendor contracts should include provisions for assisting Visa in fulfilling data subject requests where vendor-held data is involved. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should confirm that Visa's data subject request handling procedures meet GDPR's one-month response requirement and include processes for communicating extensions where permitted. The right to object to direct marketing processing is absolute under GDPR and must be honored without requiring justification from the data subject. Records of processing activities under GDPR Article 30 should be updated to reflect all categories of processing described in this policy.
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These rights are legally enforceable under GDPR and EU national implementing laws, meaning Visa must respond to valid requests within defined timeframes and cannot simply decline without a lawful basis.
EU and UK residents can formally request access to, correction of, or deletion of their personal data held by Visa, and can object to marketing-related processing, with Visa legally required to respond under GDPR.
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