Controlling Service

A Service is a Controlling Service if it determines the purposes and means of a processing operation.

In practice, the Controlling Service decides what data is to be collected, what will be done with it and why (purpose, legal basis, retention period, transfer etc.).

When different Services define different purposes or means for the same processing operation, each Service will be a Controlling Service for the part of the processing it has defined.

When purposes and means are determined jointly by two or more Service, these Services will be Joint Controlling Services.