Legal / DPA

How we process data on your behalf.

Last updated: May 1, 2026 Effective: May 1, 2026

1. Purpose

This Data Processing Agreement (DPA) applies when you use NairoCRM to process personal data of your customers, employees, prospects, or other individuals. It sits alongside our Terms of Service and forms part of your contract with us.

In this DPA: controller means you, the NairoCRM customer; processor means NairoCRM; and data subject means an individual whose data you upload into NairoCRM.

Plain version: When you use NairoCRM to store information about other people, you decide what to collect and why. We process it on your behalf, only for what you ask us to do, with the safeguards laid out here.

2. Roles and responsibilities

You are the controller of the personal data you upload to NairoCRM. You are responsible for: choosing what data to collect, why you collect it, the legal basis for processing, providing notice to data subjects, and responding to data subject requests.

NairoCRM is the processor. We process the data on your documented instructions, which are typically reflected in your configuration of the service and these documents.

3. Scope of processing

Subject matter

Provision of the NairoCRM service to you under our Terms of Service.

Duration

For the term of your subscription, plus the retention period in our Privacy Policy after termination.

Nature and purpose

Hosting, storage, transmission, backup, analytics, customer support, and other processing necessary to deliver the service.

Categories of data

Whatever you choose to upload. Typically: contact details, deal records, activity history, support tickets, and any free-text notes or attachments you add.

Categories of data subjects

Typically: your customers, prospects, leads, employees, contractors, and other individuals you interact with.

4. Our obligations as processor

  • Process personal data only on your documented instructions
  • Ensure that personnel authorized to access the data are bound by confidentiality
  • Implement appropriate technical and organizational measures (see Security)
  • Assist you, taking into account the nature of the processing, in fulfilling your obligations to respond to data subject requests
  • Assist you in ensuring compliance with security, breach notification, impact assessment, and prior consultation obligations
  • Delete or return personal data at the end of the service, subject to legal retention requirements
  • Make available information necessary to demonstrate compliance with this DPA

5. Security measures

We maintain a written information security program with administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal data. Highlights include encryption in transit and at rest, access controls, audit logging, vulnerability management, secure development practices, and incident response procedures.

Full details are on our Security page.

6. Sub-processors

We use sub-processors to deliver parts of the service: cloud hosting, email delivery, payments, error tracking, and similar. All sub-processors are bound by data protection terms at least as protective as this DPA.

We maintain a current list of sub-processors and will notify you of material changes with reasonable advance notice. You may object to a new sub-processor on reasonable grounds related to data protection; if we cannot accommodate the objection, you may terminate the affected service.

7. International transfers

Your data may be transferred across borders to provide the service. When transfers happen out of regions with statutory data protection regimes, we use appropriate safeguards as required by applicable law, such as standard contractual clauses or recognized adequacy mechanisms.

8. Data subject requests

If a data subject contacts us directly about their data in your NairoCRM account, we will, unless legally required to act, refer them to you. If you need help responding to a request (for example to export, correct, or delete a record), our support team can assist.

9. Breach notification

We notify you without undue delay if we become aware of a personal data breach affecting your data. The notification will include information available to us at the time and will be updated as we learn more.

10. Audits

On reasonable written request and subject to confidentiality, we will provide information you reasonably need to verify our compliance with this DPA. For some customers we may rely on third-party audit reports rather than on-site audits.

11. Return and deletion

At the end of the service, we will delete or return your personal data within a reasonable timeframe, unless we are required by law to retain it. Specifics are in our Privacy Policy.

12. Order of precedence

To the extent of any conflict between this DPA and our Terms of Service, this DPA prevails with respect to personal data processing.

13. How to put this in place

For most customers, accepting our Terms of Service automatically incorporates this DPA. If your procurement or legal team needs a counter-signed copy, contact us through the link below and we will send one within 5 business days.