Feature availability: You need to be on a current Vanta plan and have a privacy framework enabled to use Privacy Management features.
Privacy Management in Vanta helps you centralize and operationalize your privacy program. Instead of maintaining spreadsheets and disconnected documents, you can document your processing activities in a data inventory, generate ROPA documentation, and conduct privacy assessments like Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), Legitimate Interest Assessments (LIAs) and Transfer Risk Assessments (TRAs) directly in the platform.
You’ll find these features in the Privacy section of your Vanta account.
Data inventory
The Data inventory page is where you document and maintain your organization’s processing activities in Vanta. A processing activity describes how your organization handles personal data—what you collect, why you use it, who’s involved, and where it’s stored. Together, your processing activities form your Record of Processing Activities (ROPA).
A centralized hub for recording processing activities and creating compliance artifacts like ROPA documents.
Easily import your data inventory into Vanta with a few clicks.
View and manage your data inventory as a Record of Processing Activities (ROPA).
Export the ROPA as evidence for compliance with GDPR, ISO 27701, ISO 27018, and USDP.
Learn more: Managing Your Data Inventory & ROPAs
Assessments
The Assessments page is where you create and manage privacy assessments like Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), Legitimate Interest Assessments (LIAs), and Transfer Risk Assessments (TRAs) in Vanta. These assessments help you evaluate higher-risk processing activities and document the safeguards and risk decisions associated with them.
Author, manage, review, and approve DPIAs within the Vanta platform.
Bring privacy management into Vanta by connecting processing activities to DPIAs.
Identify and track privacy risk in-platform using Vanta’s risk management capabilities.
Learn more: Conducting Privacy Assessments
Privacy settings
From the Settings page, you can manage custom processing activity fields—custom fields used across processing activities so your data inventory and ROPA reflect your organization’s specific privacy and reporting requirements.