# Privacy registrations

URL: /systems/legal-and-corporate/privacy-registrations · Id: `capability:privacy-registrations`

> Privacy registrations file the data-protection registrations and appoint the representatives the Company needs in each market it serves.

Privacy registrations file the data-protection registrations and appoint the local representatives the [Company](/business/nouns/company) needs in each market it serves.

## Contract
| Clause | Terms |
| --- | --- |
| Starts | The first [Customer](/business/nouns/customer) in a market whose law requires a registration or a representative. |
| Steps | Register or pay the fee, appoint the representative by [Agreement](/business/nouns/agreement), and name the representative in the privacy notice ([Notices](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/notices)). |
| Signs | No floor act beyond the representative Agreement. |
| While held | Inherited. The Studio-held entity’s registrations cover the [Startup](/business/nouns/startup). |
| Records | One registration and one Agreement per market, with the [Purpose](/business/nouns/purpose) each covers. |

## Verbs
| Verb | Object | Event |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Agreement.sign](/business/nouns/agreement/sign) | [Agreement](/business/nouns/agreement) | [`Agreement.signed`](/business/events/Agreement.signed) |

## Interfaces
- [API](/code/api/reference)
- [SDK](/code/sdk/reference)
- [CLI](/code/cli/reference)
- [MCP](/code/mcp/reference)

## Example
A meditation app with no office in the EU takes its first EU subscriber. A representative is appointed that week, and the privacy notice names them before the second signup.