How to use the Privacy impact assessment template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Privacy impact assessment template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Privacy impact assessment”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Do it while the design can still change. Think about the people whose data it is, not the company’s risk, and ask your privacy lead to sign off.”
Fill in each part
- What is the project, and why does it need personal data?
- What data, about whom, from where?
- Is all of it necessary? For each field: what breaks if we don’t collect it?
- What could go wrong for those people?
- How do we reduce each risk?
- What risk is left, and who accepts it?
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Privacy impact assessment board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Records of processing
Keep a record of each activity that uses personal data: what data, why, on what basis, who it is shared with and how long it is kept.
Data retention schedule
Decide how long each kind of record is kept, why, where it lives and what happens to it at the end, then check that it happens.
Vendor security review
Check a supplier before they get your data or systems: what they will access, how they protect it and what the contract must say.
Contract review checklist
Read a commercial contract with the same questions every time: who, what, money, liability, exit and data, with red flags marked.
Compliance obligations register
List the laws, licences and standards you must meet, what each requires, who owns it and the evidence that you comply.
Policy drafting canvas
Draft a workplace policy people can follow: why it exists, who it covers, the rules, the exceptions and how it will be kept up.