For B2B SaaS providers · data residency, sovereignty & EU Data Act
Data Residency, Sovereignty & EU Data Act for SaaS Providers
Where does the data sit, who can access it, what happens when a customer switches provider? These three questions stall enterprise deals in procurement. We make your data residency, sovereignty and EU Data Act position solid and showable to your customers, legally led.
Data residency and sovereignty are recurring questionnaire items and a real procurement blocker. Without a clear, evidenced answer your deal drags on in procurement or is lost.
Swiss buyers increasingly require Swiss or EU hosting and no uncontrolled US access to their data. For the public sector, healthcare, the financial sector and other regulated buyers this is often a hard knockout criterion, not just a preference.
The Privatim resolution of the Swiss cantonal data-protection commissioners restricts Swiss authorities from placing particularly sensitive personal data on the SaaS of major cloud providers. If you sell to cantons, municipalities or cantonal bodies, this stance shapes your questionnaires and your tender chances; we clarify the exact scope case by case.
For providers with EU customers, the EU Data Act adds duties on cloud switching, data portability and certain contract terms, such as easier switching to another service and the export of customer data. Your customers expect your contracts to reflect this. We verify the exact dates currently and case by case.
How SIDD makes your data residency showable
We turn an open questionnaire gap into a clear, evidenced position you can show to your customers.
We start with a data-flow and transfer mapping: which personal data your platform processes, where it sits, which sub-processors and third countries are involved and who has access technically and legally. This is the foundation of every solid answer.
On top of this we build transfer-impact assessments for transfers abroad, hosting and sovereignty options with pros and cons, and contract terms on data residency, access and the EU Data Act that you can show your customers directly. Where it fits, we offer the Swiss Priverion Platform as a sovereign tooling option for your data-protection governance.
One clear boundary matters to us: we assess and shape your architecture, contracts and evidence. We do not host your product and we do not run your infrastructure. This keeps our hosting and sovereignty recommendations independent and in your interest.
Why SIDD for data residency & sovereignty
Data residency is first a legal and contractual question, then an architecture question. That exact connection is what we deliver.
Legally led
Your data-residency position is led by doctorate-level lawyers with CIPP/E. We assess transfer-impact assessments, processing-agreement clauses and Data Act duties on solid legal ground, not just as a technical checklist.
Showable answers
You receive worded answers on hosting location, access and sub-processors that fit straight into security questionnaires, tenders and your trust center. That shortens procurement instead of blocking it.
Sovereignty understood
We know the Swiss expectation, from the Privatim resolution to cantonal procurement rules, and translate it into concrete requirements for hosting, access control and contracts.
Data Act & portability
For EU customers we review your contracts against the Data Act duties on cloud switching, portability and data export and draft compliant clauses. We keep the volatile deadlines current and verify them case by case.
Swiss tooling option
On request we maintain your records of processing, transfer overview and measures in the Swiss Priverion Platform. That is a sovereign tooling option you can cite in questionnaires yourself.
Multilingual & independent
We advise in German, French and English, relevant for French-speaking Switzerland and EU buyers. Because we sell neither hosting nor an in-house SOC, our recommendations on location and sovereignty stay independent.
Data-Residency & Transfer Assessment
Data-Residency & Transfer Assessment
Fixed fee on request
A fixed-fee assessment of your data flows, transfers and hosting options with a showable result for your questionnaires and tenders.
Platform data-flow and transfer mapping, including sub-processors and third countries
Transfer-impact assessment for transfers abroad
Assessment of the Swiss and EU sovereignty expectation, including the Privatim context
Hosting and sovereignty options with pros and cons
EU Data Act review of contracts on switching, portability and data export, deadlines verified case by case
Showable questionnaire answers and contract building blocks on data residency and access
Why we work with LexCommand, our own Swiss legal AI
LexCommand is our in-house, citation-backed legal AI for the law of Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the EU. Developed and run sovereignly in Switzerland by Priverion GmbH, the company behind SIDD. We do not just preach data sovereignty and provability, we built them into our own tool, alongside the Priverion Platform.
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Sovereign in Switzerland
The AI runs self-hosted on Swiss infrastructure, with no external cloud LLMs. As an independent Swiss company with no foreign parent, we process your documents in an environment we control.
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No citation, no claim
Every legal statement traces back to a retrievable primary source, or it does not appear at all. That makes our recommendations auditable and verifiable, instead of merely sounding plausible.
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From effort to judgement
LexCommand takes over searching, cross-checking and sourcing. That shortens turnaround times and frees our senior advisors for judgement and client dialogue, with no loss of diligence.
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Three disciplines, one picture
We look at data protection, information security and AI security on a shared source base with a framework crosswalk. So you see overlapping obligations in one consolidated picture, instead of three isolated analyses.
For your data-residency assessment, concretely: LexCommand backs every statement in the transfer-impact assessment and the Data Act clauses with the exact primary source and reads the volatile EU Data Act deadlines in the version valid at the chosen reference date, so your questionnaire answers hold up to scrutiny.
Temporally deterministic (as of today or any reference date), with jurisdiction isolation (CH/DE/AT/EU) and a citation verifier at the end of every answer.
Frequently asked questions
Do you host our platform or run our infrastructure?
No. We assess and shape your architecture, contracts and evidence on data residency and sovereignty. We do not host your product. This keeps our hosting recommendations independent and in your interest.
What is the Privatim resolution and does it affect us?
The Privatim resolution of the Swiss cantonal data-protection commissioners restricts Swiss authorities from placing particularly sensitive personal data on the SaaS of major cloud providers. If you sell to the public sector, it shapes your questionnaires and tender chances. We clarify the exact scope case by case.
Does the EU Data Act apply to us and from when?
The EU Data Act applies to providers with EU customers and brings duties on cloud switching, portability and certain contract terms. The exact dates need verification, which we do currently and case by case. In the assessment we place your concrete situation.
Is offering Swiss hosting enough on its own?
Location alone is rarely enough. Buyers also ask about access by the parent company or sub-processors, support from third countries and contracts that exclude uncontrolled foreign access. We address location, access and contract together, so the answer truly holds.
Can we use the Priverion Platform as a sovereign tooling option?
Yes. On request we maintain your records of processing, transfer overview and measures in the Swiss Priverion Platform. That is a sovereign tooling option for your data-protection governance that you can cite in questionnaires yourself.
Matching building blocks for SaaS providers
Data residency ties into the contract and into representation. These pages belong together:
Turn data residency from a question into a selling point
We assess your data flows, transfers and hosting options and deliver showable answers and contract building blocks for your questionnaires and tenders.
