It can be hard to decide which contract you need. Sometimes you don’t know where your business is going to take you and your clients can turn out to be overseas when you weren’t expecting that, or you can be setting up to be working globally from the start. Or you can find yourself working abroad while still being based in the UK.
Which contract do you need if you have mostly but not all UK clients?
If you have mostly UK clients and you want to handle one or two non-UK clients you may be better off with a UK contract and purchasing a cross-border data privacy pack (which replaces your UK data privacy element but not the whole contract).
This avoids giving your UK clients a more complicated pack which has some advantages and keeps your core contract consistent.
You will find a cross border data privacy pack here. This works when you are working with a non UK client or when you are not in the UK but accessing personal data across borders.
Which contract do you need if you have mostly but not all non UK clients?
You could get a global contract and use that only for your non-UK clients. That includes an equivalent DPA to the above. But that has the disadvantage that you are on two different contract bases which can be confusing over time:
You will find the global ranges here. Choose Terms of Business if you are providing the service and Hiring Agreement if you are using an associate who is in a different country (or travelling).
Which contract is right for you?
Which option is right for you depends on your plans for your business and how many contracts you want to be remembering to comply with.
The global data processing agreement or a separate global contract is the same price as each other. There is no cost implication in choosing one or the other when purchasing them separately.
