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Do your regulatory research — better yet, let us do it

Every organization’s privacy compliance program is unique, shaped by the specifics of the privacy regulatory requirements and unique organizational business processes or vendors. Streamline your privacy program with automated tools that are easily customized to your specific needs.

Staying up to date on specialized privacy knowledge

How can you possibly keep up with hundreds of global privacy laws, regulations, and standards — especially when new ones emerge and existing ones change so often? Without investing heavily in internal resources or relying on external help, it’s too big a job for one person or even one privacy team.

In-depth legal resources demand deep pockets

You need a data privacy resource that’s focused exclusively on the task of keeping track of the current state of privacy requirements. And while you could retain the services of legal counsel to do this, or even expand your in-house legal department to take it on, those options will be costly given the scope.

Power your teams with on-demand knowledge

Nymity Research from TrustArc maintains an extensive privacy and regulatory database that includes 28+ years of comprehensive expert guidance and analysis from dedicated legal and privacy experts.

We can reduce your privacy research time and shorten your time to privacy compliance, keeping your costs down and freeing you to be more proactive in your privacy compliance efforts.

  • Reduce legal counsel costs
  • Reduce your law research time so that you can proactively maintain compliance

Expert-curated regulatory insights and alerts

  • Daily alerts about privacy law changes & enforcement tracking

    Subscribe to daily alerts from a privacy regulation database that includes 52,000+ articles and case laws. Stay informed on the latest developments in privacy laws, enforcement, and developments with daily alerts delivered directly to your inbox. TrustArc’s enforcement tracker widget shows fines and can be filtered by jurisdiction.

  • Legal summaries customized

    Access 1,229+ full-text laws analyzed by our in-house experts for non-legal audiences. Easily understand the “why” to your privacy program and operations. Summaries and comparisons address regulatory compliance requirements of your organization across 244+ global jurisdictions.

  • Analysis of multiple-jurisdiction requirements

    Quickly identify changes covering 1,000+ global privacy laws, regulations, and standards, and access comparative information and analysis for multiple-jurisdiction reporting. Access to 800+ operational templates provide analysis and guidance to easily operationalize your privacy operations. Our Data Breach index outlines requirements and steps globally as well as sample regulator breach reports as templates, as well as sample breach response plan and procedures.

    Legal summaries and comparisons, including from Morrison Foerster, cover a range of topics: AI governance, records of processing, security, database registration, data transfer risk, cross border transfers, breach response, legal grounds for processing, and more.

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Deeper insight, trusted expertise

Access a rich regulatory knowledge base, from up-to-date global regulatory guidance to practical out-of-the-box operational templates. Make informed decisions faster and with greater confidence.

TrustArc’s strength for me has always been the supreme quality of their research tools. While it may be tempting to go with other organizations that have less expensive research solutions, you lose out on a wealth of resources and quality in the process. The templates and depth of legal analysis just can’t be found at competitors (and I’ve tried them). On top of that, the customer support is hands on and top notch. They want you to succeed!

– Information Technology and Services Customer, G2

Operational Templates have helped the privacy office save plenty of time and resources, especially because they provide support for all operations across the organizations.

– Large Financial Services Company, AVP & Director Global Privacy

Research & Alerts’ ability to know what has changed within the last 24 hours is extremely helpful for our privacy program.

– Chief Privacy Officer, Large Enterprise Aerospace & Defense company

Fantastic depth, diversity of content, detail and organization. For data-related compliance knowledge, I haven’t see anything that even comes close.

– Vice President and Global Head of Privacy, Mark Sward, Sterling

The daily emails provide an excellent source of information to track legal decisions, and pending legislation in a timely, consumable form.

– Financial Services Customer, G2 Review

    See Nymity Research for yourself

    Navigate the wildly dynamic privacy regulatory environment (100+ global laws) without fear. Get instant insights and in-depth expertise from a team with 400+ collective years of experience. Learn the law faster and with confidence.

    Nymity Research vs DataGuidance

     

    Capability Nymity Research DataGuidance
    Research team model Dedicated in-house privacy experts along with 28+ years of privacy-specific methodology Outsourced/contributor research network
    Content freshness 3–4 new expert-written references published per business day  Frequently cited customer pain point: content not always current
    Full-text laws covered 1,000+ full-text laws, regulatory summaries and 52,000+ references covering 1,300+ laws, with plain-English explainers and rule-level detail, developed over 28+ years Less detail on rule-level explainers
    Expert references & regulatory sources 52,000+ expert-written references, news items, and regulatory documents Significantly smaller expert-written repository
    Operational templates 200+ ready-to-deploy templates (e.g., sample breach plans, risk assessment templates, privacy notices, InfoSec checklists, AI governance, training, job descriptions) Not available
    Strategic legal summaries Morrison Foerster-authored summaries on AI, breach response, ROPAs, legal bases, and more General summaries; no equivalent law-firm-authored strategic content
    Source citation  Links back to the original source document (regulator notice, statute text, enforcement decision) Limited source-document linking
    Cross-jurisdictional comparison Topic matrices compare requirements across 400+ jurisdictions in a digestible table, with drill-down into each country Jurisdictional comparisons available; less granular matrix view
    Data transfer risk analysis Data transfer risk rating and explanation for 80+ countries with expert-curated country analysis Limited or no equivalent dedicated risk rating
    Law Monitor (amendment tracking) Compare prior, current, and future versions of a privacy or cybersecurity law side-by-side Limited side-by-side version comparison
    Daily email alerts Fully customizable by topic, country, region, and more Available; customization granularity varies
    Dashboards & enforcement tracking Customizable dashboards (with Enforcement Tracker Widget, Consumer Privacy Heat Map, and more) Available with narrower customization
    Customer ROI $90K–$128K annual value for a 3-user team; 5–10x ROI; <3 month payback; 70–90% manual research time saved; 20–30% reduction in outside counsel spend No equivalent published ROI figures

    Nymity Research FAQs

    • How much time and money does Nymity Research save a privacy, legal, or compliance team?

      A three-person privacy team typically captures $90K–$128K in annual value from Nymity Research, with a 5–10x ROI and a payback period under three months. Savings break down into roughly $40K–$60K in faster compliance deployment, $20K–$30K/law in reduced outside-counsel reliance, $18K–$36K in reclaimed strategic time, and about $12.5K in manual research hours eliminated. Many Nymity Research customers experience ROI within the first quarter of use.

    • How is Nymity Research different from a Google search or generic legal research tool like Lexis+ and Practical Law?

      Nymity Research is purpose-built for privacy and maintained by a dedicated in-house team of privacy experts for more than two decades. General legal research platforms like Lexis+ and Practical Law cover privacy as one topic among many — they offer breadth across legal disciplines, but not the depth data protection teams need. They don’t include privacy-specific operational templates, cross-jurisdictional comparison matrices, Data Transfer Risk Ratings, or an enforcement tracker. Nymity Research shows its work with linked source documents and includes Morrison Foerster-authored legal summaries for strategic topics.

    • Who on my team can use Nymity Research if they have no privacy background?

      Nymity Research is written for non-privacy experts. IT, security, GRC, compliance, marketing, procurement, and product teams can all use it independently. Legal summaries are in plain business language, operational templates support rapid organizational privacy implementation, and Ask Arc answers regulatory questions in seconds without requiring any legal or privacy background.

      Common uses include:

      • Security teams checking data-breach notification requirements before an incident response
      • Marketing team validating consent rules before launching a regional campaign
      • Procurement referencing Data Transfer Risk Ratings when onboarding a new vendor
      • GRC leads pulling comparative analyses for board reporting

    • How does Nymity Research help me evaluate cross-border data transfer risk?

      Nymity Research’s Data Transfer Risk Rating scores more than 80 countries on the legal risk of receiving personal data, with expert-curated country analysis behind each score. Privacy teams use it to vet new vendor locations, map data flows, and build defensible transfer impact assessments (TIAs) without commissioning a separate legal review for each country.

    • What do Operational Templates cover?

      With over 200 out-of-the-box templates written and maintained by in-house privacy experts, these templates cover breach response plans, sample privacy notices, DPIA and PIA templates, InfoSec checklists, procurement checklists, incident response plans, training materials, AI governance templates and checklists, and privacy-team job descriptions. Teams can deploy them rather than reinventing the wheel.

      This is a core differentiator against DataGuidance, which does not offer operational templates. The templates span the full privacy program lifecycle (training, design, execution, and evaluation) so a lean team can operationalize a new obligation without starting from a blank page. Customers typically save 30–40+ hours per template use.

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