This document is designed to help NEXT customers and users understand, and where applicable, comply, with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The GDPR is the most significant change to European data privacy legislation in the last 20 years and went into effect on May 15, 2018.
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GDPR is designed to give European Union (“EU”) citizens more control over their data and seeks to unify a number of existing privacy and security laws under one comprehensive law.
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NEXT has made information security and data privacy foundational principles of everything we do, and we recognize the importance of adhering to regulations to advance information security and data privacy for citizens of the EU.

We appreciate that our customers have requirements under the GDPR that are directly impacted by their use of our Services. Below are several GDPR initiatives that have been implemented across our Services:

Investment in security – We’ve increased our investment in security. This includes implementing dependency vulnerability detection, improved auditing and logging across all services, new internal security policies, staff security training, improved password and secret management, stronger password policies, and more.

Employee training – We ensure our team are trained in handling customer data and personal information, and that they maintain the confidentiality and security of that data.

Clear terms – The structure and language used in all of our terms and policies to more clearly communicate what information we collect, what we use it for, who we share it with, what your rights are, and more.

Data residency – We offer Enterprise workspaces the choice to select the EU for hosting and processing their data.

Data Processing Agreement – We support the EU’s Standard Contractual Clauses through a Data Processing Agreement that you can sign and return to us.

Data subprocessors – We list all of our third party Data subprocessors and share information on what we use them for and where they are located.

Data Subject Access Request procedure – We’ve streamlined our Data Subject Access Request procedure and documented the procedure on our website.

Data portability – We’ve improved our procedures so customers may export customer data and personal information in a machine-readable format at any time.

We appreciate that we are entrusted with valuable and sometimes sensitive user research data, which is why we have built security into every layer of our architecture, pursuing a ‘privacy by design’ approach to the design and development of our Services.
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Our application is built on world-class, modern cloud infrastructure designed to ensure the safety of your data. We have carefully chosen proven third party cloud providers that have a great security track record, and we employ best practices including regular backups, data encryption, sanitized logging, and common attack prevention.
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Read more about our security practices.

We offer customers a robust international data transfer framework as a part our Data Processing Agreement (“DPA”). This addendum ensures that our customers can lawfully transfer personal data to our Services outside of the European Economic Area by relying on the Standard Contractual Clauses. Our DPA also contains specific provisions to assist customers in their compliance with the GDPR.

We help you honor your customers’ requests to export their data. NEXT provides data portability and data management capabilities for exporting product and user data.
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We also help customers meet obligations under the GDPR ‘right to be forgotten’ (or ‘right to erasure’) clause by making it easy to request the deletion of personal data from NEXT. For more information on this procedure, see Data Subject Access Request.

Your privacy is important to us, and so is being transparent about how we collect, use, and share your information. In our Privacy Policy, we describe what information we collect, how we use and store that data, and how you can access and control your information.

The following resources might prove useful:

If you have any questions, please email us at legal@nextapp.co.
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