Here is the honest situation. A GDPR Article 40 code of conduct on data protection for research turns the regulation's research provisions into concrete commitments: a lawful basis for research, the Article 89 safeguards, pseudonymisation, transparency with the research derogations, data subject rights, secure sharing and transfers, and adherence overseen by a monitoring body. Signing up to a code is a public commitment, and Article 41 means a monitoring body can hold you to it. An organization that processes personal data for research but cannot show its lawful basis, its safeguards, its minimisation or its transparency is exactly where organizations fall short.
This Kit removes the guesswork. It is the research code's commitments written as adopt-ready controls you personalize in a weekend, with the evidence a monitoring body examines.
What you get, the moment you buy
Grounded in the GDPR research provisions and Article 40 code of conduct approach, with the lawful basis for research, Article 89 safeguards, pseudonymisation, transparency and research derogations, data subject rights, secure sharing and transfers, and Article 41 monitoring called out. Editable Word and Excel files.
What one control looks like
This is committing to the research code of conduct, where adherence begins. All 18 are built to this depth.
Why this is not another template pack
- The evidence is the point. A commitment you cannot evidence is a code breach waiting to be found. This tells you what a monitoring body examines and where organizations fall short, for every commitment.
- Lawful basis, safeguards and rights built in. The research lawful basis, the Article 89 safeguards, pseudonymisation, transparency and data subject rights are written into the controls, the substance the code requires.
- Built on a mapped compliance corpus, not one person's opinion, from a graph of thousands of controls across standards.
- It compounds. The research code sits on your wider GDPR program, so this work feeds your records of processing, DPIAs and data subject rights handling.
Who buys this
Universities, research institutes, health and life-science organizations and any body processing personal data for research, and the DPOs, research governance and data protection leads who own it. Whether it is a first adherence or a compliance uplift, you save weeks and walk in with lawful basis, safeguards, transparency and monitoring structured.
Common questions
Is it really editable? Yes. Word and Excel files you own and adapt. No portal, no subscription.
Is this legal advice? No. It is an implementation toolkit grounded in the GDPR research provisions and the code approach. For a specific matter consult counsel; this gets your controls and evidence in order fast.
Does it cover the Article 89 safeguards? Yes. Applying the Article 89 safeguards and pseudonymisation are built as controls.
Does it cover data subject rights? Yes. Handling rights and the research derogations, and honouring withdrawal and objection, are built as controls.
What if it is not for me? A 30-day money-back guarantee.
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