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Data Sharing Agreement

Also known as DSA, or personal data sharing contract.

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Share personal data with another organization that uses it for its own purposes, with the purpose, safeguards, and each side's duties in writing.

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 Sharing Agreement?

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

What this template does. Govern a controller-to-controller disclosure with purpose, legal basis, responsibilities, security, retention, and rights handling.

Also searched as

  • DSA
  • personal data sharing contract

Commonly used by

  • Organizations
  • Businesses

Legal considerations

Heightened care. A contract alone does not create a lawful basis; notices, proportionality, rights, security, and records remain necessary.

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 data-sharing issuances

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

How to complete your Data Sharing Agreement

The guided interview takes you through 7 steps. The document updates as you answer, and some questions appear only when your earlier answers make them relevant.

  1. Step 1

    Confirm the kind of sharing

    This agreement is for two organizations that each decide how to use the data. If one only processes data for the other, use a data processing agreement instead.

    Up to 3 questions
  2. Step 2

    Identify the two controllers

    Each party should name its Data Protection Officer. The Discloser sends the data, and the Recipient receives it.

    Up to 8 questions
  3. Step 3

    State the purpose and each party's lawful basis

    The purpose must be specific and legitimate. Each party needs its own lawful basis, and a contract between them is not one.

    Up to 6 questions
  4. Step 4

    Describe the data

    Share only what the purpose needs.

    Up to 8 questions
  5. Step 5

    Set the protections

    Security, retention, and limits on further sharing protect the data subjects.

    Up to 7 questions
  6. Step 6

    Handle rights, breaches, and audits

    Data subjects keep their rights, and a breach must be reported quickly.

    Up to 6 questions
  7. Step 7

    Set the term and sign

    Set start and end dates and keep a signed copy.

    Up to 7 questions

Sample Data Sharing 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.

11 clauses, about 1,169 words in the complete sample.

DATA SHARING AGREEMENT

Republic of the Philippines — Controller-to-controller data sharing · Template v0.2.0

This Data Sharing Agreement (the "Agreement") is made on September 29, 2026 between Bayanihan Digital Services, Inc., with address at 18/F One Ayala Tower, Ayala Avenue, Makati City 1226 (the "Discloser"), and Mabuhay Insurance Brokers Corporation, with address at 3 Ortigas Center, Pasig City 1605 (the "Recipient").

1. Roles and Data Protection Officers

Each of the Discloser and the Recipient is a personal information controller under the Data Privacy Act of 2012 and decides for itself how it uses the personal data it holds. Neither acts as the other's processor under this Agreement.

The Discloser's Data Protection Officer is Andrea M. Reyes, dpo@bayanihan.example. The Recipient's Data Protection Officer is Carlo P. Mendoza, privacy@mabuhay.example. Each party shall tell the other of any change.

2. Purpose and lawful bases

The Discloser shall share personal data with the Recipient only for this specific purpose: To allow the Recipient to verify the identity and coverage eligibility of the Discloser's employees who apply for the group insurance plan the Discloser has arranged, and to issue their policies.

The Discloser relies on the necessity of the processing for a contract with the data subjects as its lawful basis for the sharing. The Recipient relies on the necessity of the processing for a contract with the data subjects as its lawful basis for receiving and using the data.

This Agreement does not by itself create a lawful basis for the sharing. Each party remains responsible for having its own basis, notices, and safeguards.

3. Data shared

The data relates to employees, and includes identity details, contact details, employment information and age or date of birth. The specific fields are: Full name, date of birth, work email, mobile number, employee number, position, and date of hire of each employee who enrolls in the group insurance plan.

The volume is 100 to 1,000 individuals, shared periodically, by Encrypted file over SFTP, sent once each enrollment period.

The data includes sensitive personal information under Section 3(l) of the Data Privacy Act, namely age or date of birth. Processing it is prohibited except on a ground in Section 13 of the Act, and a contract or legitimate interests is not such a ground. The parties process it only on the basis of the consent of the data subjects, specific to this purpose and given before the processing (Section 13), and the Recipient shall give it the highest level of protection.

The specific consent for the sensitive data was obtained and recorded as follows: Each employee who enrolls ticks a separate, unticked box on the enrollment form agreeing that their date of birth be shared with the Recipient for the group insurance plan. The form records the date and time of consent. Each party shall stop sharing or using the sensitive data of anyone who withdraws that consent.

The Discloser shall share only the data the purpose needs, and the Recipient shall use it for no other purpose.

4. Information to data subjects and their rights

Before the data is shared, the data subjects are told who will receive it, why, what data is involved, their rights, and how to reach the Data Protection Officer.

Each party shall handle the requests it receives to access, correct, object to, or erase data, or to withdraw consent, and shall tell the other within 7 days of any request that affects the shared data.

Each party shall honor the rights of data subjects under Section 16 of the Data Privacy Act and shall not make it harder for them to exercise those rights.

Each party is responsible for answering the information requests and complaints it receives from data subjects about the shared data, and for answering any inquiry or investigation of the National Privacy Commission about its own processing. The other party shall cooperate. The Commission makes the final determination of which party is liable for a violation.

A data subject may ask either party's Data Protection Officer for a copy of this Agreement, and that party shall provide it within 7 days. Before providing it, a party may redact trade or industrial secrets, confidential and proprietary business information, and any detail that could compromise its information systems or the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the personal data it holds (NPC Circular No. 2020-03, Section 9(G)).

The rest of the document covers

  • 5. Limits on use and onward sharing
  • 6. Security
  • 7. Retention and disposal
  • 8. Personal data breach
  • 9. Audit
  • 10. Responsibility
  • 11. Term, review, and general terms
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The guided interview has 7 steps and up to 45 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?
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Is there a free template?
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Which law does it follow?
It is drafted under Philippine law and relies on 5 official sources, each listed above with the provisions used and the date it was last checked.
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