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Data Processing Agreement

Also known as DPA, processor agreement, or privacy processing contract.

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Set the rules when a vendor handles personal data for you, such as payroll, IT, or a call center, as the Data Privacy Act expects.

Heightened care. The legal consequences are significant. Read the notes below closely and consider having a Philippine lawyer look at it before you sign.

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What is a Data Processing Agreement?

A Data Processing Agreement is a written agreement that records what the people involved have promised to do for one another.

What this template does. Govern Philippine controller-to-processor outsourcing with exact processing, instructions, security, subprocessors, cross-border, rights, incident, audit, registration, and deletion schedules.

Also searched as

  • DPA
  • processor agreement
  • privacy processing contract
  • PIC PIP agreement

Commonly used by

  • Businesses
  • Employers
  • Service providers

Legal considerations

Heightened care. The agreement must match actual PIC/PIP roles, systems, data, locations, security, subprocessors, rights, breach response, registration, and operational evidence; controller-to-controller activities need separate terms.

How it is signed

Signed by the people involved. The people involved sign it, with witnesses or a notary where your signing checklist says one is needed. Notarizing a private document is often chosen anyway because it makes the document easier to prove.

What it draws on

  • Data Privacy Act
  • DPA IRR
  • NPC Circular 2023-06
  • NPC Circular 16-03
  • NPC Circular 2022-04
  • NPC Advisory 2024-01

The exact provisions, with links to the official text, are listed under the Philippine law behind it.

How to complete your Data Processing Agreement

The guided interview takes you through 8 steps. The document updates as you answer, and some questions appear only when your earlier answers make them relevant.

  1. Step 1

    Confirm the real privacy roles

    A processor acts for the controller on documented instructions. If either party chooses its own purpose or essential means, separate controller terms may be required.

    Up to 9 questions
  2. Step 2

    Identify the parties and contract

    Match legal names, registrations, representatives, DPO contacts, the main services agreement, effective date, duration, and precedence.

    Up to 17 questions
  3. Step 3

    Build the processing schedule

    The schedule must describe the real systems, operations, people, data, locations, sources, outputs, recipients, volume, frequency, and automated effects.

    Up to 18 questions
  4. Step 4

    Control instructions and lawful use

    The controller remains responsible for lawful purposes and transparency. The processor may not convert access into its own advertising, profiling, sale, or product purpose.

    Up to 9 questions
  5. Step 5

    Specify implemented security

    Describe controls that actually exist or must be completed before access. Do not turn aspirational security or expired certifications into contractual facts.

    Up to 15 questions
  6. Step 6

    Approve subprocessors and countries

    No downstream provider or new country receives access silently. Apply equivalent terms, maintain accountability, and use current cross-border safeguards.

    Up to 13 questions
  7. Step 7

    Handle rights and incidents in time

    The processor must route requests and incidents promptly, preserve facts, support the controller, and avoid unauthorized or misleading notifications.

    Up to 12 questions
  8. Step 8

    Audit, return, delete, and sign

    Compliance must remain provable through evidence, audits, remediation, registration records, controlled termination, return/deletion, backups, and authorized signatures.

    Up to 16 questions

Sample Data Processing Agreement

This is how the opening of a finished document reads. Every name, address, and amount is invented. Your own document is built from your answers, so its wording changes with them.

12 clauses, about 2,849 words in the complete sample.

Data Processing Agreement

Bayanihan Retail Corporation → Ligtas Cloud Services, Inc. · Heightened, sensitive-data, or cross-border route · Template v0.2.0

1. PARTIES, PURPOSE, AND STATUS

This Data Processing Agreement (“DPA”) is made on August 30, 2026 between Bayanihan Retail Corporation, a corporation with address at 12 Mabini Avenue, Makati City 1226 (the “Controller” or “PIC”), and Ligtas Cloud Services, Inc., a corporation with address at 88 Pioneer Street, Mandaluyong City 1550 (the “Processor” or “PIP”).

It supplements Master Cloud Services Agreement dated 30 August 2026, Order Form BR-2026-09, version 1.0. Service: Cloud customer-support ticketing, secure document exchange, and service analytics performed for the controller's Philippine customers and authorized support users. It takes effect on September 15, 2026 and applies: From the effective date through the services term and thereafter only for verified return, deletion, legal retention, incident, audit, and dispute obligations that expressly survive.

Current route: Heightened, sensitive-data, or cross-border route. Actual relationship selected: personal information controller to personal information processor. Controller decisions: The controller selects the support purposes, required fields, data subjects, retention periods, authorized recipients, ticket workflows, and permitted reporting outputs. Processor instructions: The processor hosts, organizes, retrieves, transmits, backs up, secures, and deletes support records only through the controller's documented configuration and authorized support instructions.

Precedence: This DPA controls for personal-data protection conflicts; the main services agreement otherwise controls the commercial service. This DPA does not itself create consent or another lawful basis, change the parties' actual roles, register a DPO or system, satisfy a PIA, notify a data subject or regulator, or prove operational compliance.

2. PROCESSING SCHEDULE

Subject matter: Hosting and operating the controller-configured customer-support environment and securely processing tickets, attachments, service communications, and authorized analytics. Nature and operations: Receive encrypted API and user submissions; validate, organize, store, index, retrieve, display, transmit, back up, monitor, troubleshoot, export, restrict, correct, return, and securely delete records under documented instructions. Purpose: Provide customer support case management, authorized communication, service-quality reporting, fraud and security monitoring, system continuity, and controller-requested export or deletion. Frequency: Continuous hosting with user-initiated ticket activity, daily backups, real-time security monitoring, and monthly controller reports.

Systems and repositories: Tenant-isolated Philippine application cluster, encrypted relational database, encrypted object storage for attachments, access and audit log service, backup vault, support console, ticket email gateway, and controller API. Geographic locations: Primary hosting and support in Metro Manila, Philippines; encrypted disaster-recovery backup in Singapore; tightly controlled remote support from the Philippines and Singapore.

Data subjects: Controller customers, prospective customers who submit inquiries, authorized customer representatives, controller support employees, and individuals mentioned in a support ticket. Personal-data categories: Names, business contact details, customer and ticket identifiers, account relationship, communications, attachment contents, service history, IP address, device/browser metadata, timestamps, audit events, and support preferences. Approximate scale: 18,000 data subjects. Sources: Direct submissions by data subjects and controller users, controller CRM/API transfers, authorized email intake, service-generated security and access logs, and approved correction instructions.

Sensitive or identity-fraud-enabling categories: Government-issued identification copies or health/payment-related details may appear incidentally in attachments; the controller instructs minimization, warning, restriction, and prompt removal when unnecessary.

No privileged-information category is stated.

Outputs and recipients: Authorized controller support and privacy teams, authenticated requesting data subjects through the controller, approved processor support personnel, listed infrastructure subprocessors, and lawful authorities only through the compelled-disclosure process. Automated processing: none.

3. CONTROLLER OBLIGATIONS AND DOCUMENTED INSTRUCTIONS

The Controller determines and documents lawful purposes, essential means, lawful criteria, transparency, proportionality, retention, data-subject communications, and instruction authority. Lawful basis: The controller documents the applicable contract, legal obligation, legitimate interest, and consent routes per purpose and data category; sensitive information is processed only under a verified Section 13 criterion. Transparency: The controller's layered privacy notice identifies ticket processing, fields, purposes, lawful bases, processor categories, Singapore backup, retention, rights, DPO contact, and complaint route before or at collection.

Documented instructions are issued and retained through: Only named controller administrators may issue signed order forms, approved configuration changes, or authenticated support instructions through the contract portal; processor records issuer, time, scope, approval, and implementation evidence. Changes follow: Each change records purpose, data, systems, recipients, countries, retention, security and PIA effects, test evidence, DPO review, authorized approval, deployment, rollback, notice, and schedule update before production use.

Minimization, accuracy, and quality: Reject unnecessary configured fields where practicable, warn users against uploading unrelated sensitive records, preserve source and correction history, propagate authenticated corrections, and quarantine duplicate or inaccurate data pending controller instruction. The Controller will not instruct processing beyond the disclosed schedule without a lawful, documented change and required notices, assessments, and approvals.

The rest of the document covers

  • 4. PROCESSOR DUTIES AND USE LIMITS
  • 5. SECURITY AND RESILIENCE
  • 6. SUBPROCESSORS
  • 7. CROSS-BORDER PROCESSING
  • 8. DATA-SUBJECT RIGHTS, COMPLAINTS, AND REGULATORS
  • 9. SECURITY INCIDENTS AND PERSONAL DATA BREACHES
  • 10. ASSURANCE, AUDIT, AND REMEDIATION
  • 11. RETURN, DELETION, AND TERMINATION
  • 12. LIABILITY, GENERAL TERMS, AND EXECUTION
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The guided interview has 8 steps and up to 109 questions. Some questions only appear when they apply to your situation, so you may answer fewer. You can read the document as it builds, and sign in to save a draft and finish later.
Do I need a notary?
Signed by the people involved. The people involved sign it, with witnesses or a notary where your signing checklist says one is needed. Notarizing a private document is often chosen anyway because it makes the document easier to prove. Your signing checklist lists the exact steps for your version.
Is it reviewed by a lawyer?
This template’s current status is: Engineering draft · independent Philippine privacy-lawyer and security review pending. LAW.PH is legal self-help software, not a law firm, and will not describe a document as lawyer-reviewed until an independent Philippine lawyer has approved this exact version.
Is there a free template?
Yes. The sample on this page is free to read and to download as an editable Word file, with no sign-in. It uses fictional names, dates, and amounts, so replace every one. The paid version is built from your own answers, checks them as you go, and includes the signing checklist for your exact situation. Download the free sample (.docx)
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Which law does it follow?
It is drafted under Philippine law and relies on 8 official sources, each listed above with the provisions used and the date it was last checked.
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