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Privacy notices, data processing agreements and Article 30 registers compared — what each generator produces, when a template is enough, and where you still need a lawyer.

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Updated August 2026 · Reading time: 7 minutes

Which Documents Does a Small Site Actually Need?

Three documents cover the overwhelming majority of GDPR exposure for a small business website or a web agency's client portfolio: a privacy notice (Articles 13/14 — what you collect and why), a data processing agreement (Article 28 — required whenever a vendor processes personal data on your behalf), and a record of processing activities (Article 30 — the register regulators ask for first during an inquiry). None of them require legal software to produce; each is a structured document where the hard part is deciding the substance, not formatting it.

The Generators

All three tools below run entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to any server, there is no account, and the output is yours to edit and publish.

📄 Privacy Notice Generator

Walks through purposes, legal bases, recipients, transfers, retention and user rights, then produces a complete Article 13/14 privacy policy ready to publish on your site. Best for: any website that collects anything — including just contact forms and analytics.
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📝 DPA Generator

Produces an Article 28 data processing agreement covering subject matter, security measures, sub-processors and audit rights. Best for: agencies signing up new vendors, or handing their own processing terms to clients.
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📊 RoPA Generator

Builds your Article 30 register activity by activity: purpose, lawful basis, data categories, transfers, retention, security measures. Exports a clean table you can hand to a regulator or an enterprise customer's procurement team.
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Danske versioner: privatlivspolitik, databehandleraftale, register over behandlingsaktiviteter.

Prefer a Plain Template?

If you would rather start from a skeleton and fill it in yourself, two Markdown templates cover the same ground:

The generators are faster and harder to get wrong (they will not let you skip a mandatory field); the templates are better when your situation is unusual and you want full control of the wording.

Where a Template Stops Being Enough

Generators and templates produce correct-shaped documents, not legal advice. Three situations warrant a lawyer: cross-border processing outside the EU with adequacy questions or SCCs, special-category data at scale (health, biometrics), or a regulator already asking questions. For everything else — marketing analytics, contact forms, newsletters, ordinary e-commerce — a carefully filled-in notice, a signed DPA per vendor and a maintained RoPA put you ahead of most small businesses.

Two companion checks close the loop: Cookie Check verifies whether your page sets cookies before consent, and the Accessibility Scanner covers the other half of EU compliance pressure — the European Accessibility Act.

A Workflow That Takes One Afternoon

(1) List every system touching personal data — forms, analytics, email, hosting, plugins. (2) Generate the privacy notice from that list and publish it. (3) Generate or request a DPA from each vendor that lacks one. (4) Enter each system as one row in the RoPA. (5) Re-check after any new tool is added — set a calendar reminder quarterly. Total effort for a typical small site: two to four hours, once, plus small maintenance.

Going Deeper

Our GDPR e-book expands this workflow with vendor-assessment questionnaires and a complete clause library for agency contracts.

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