General
Gradual Compliance: Why You Should Take It Step-by-Step
Compliance is not a sprint. Learn why taking small, structured steps toward GDPR, NIS2, and other regulations leads to better results and less stress.
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General
Cold Calls and Cold Emails: What is Allowed under GDPR and ePrivacy?
Cold calls and cold emails are still possible under GDPR and ePrivacy, but only with the right approach. Learn the rules for B2B and B2C outreach.
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ToolHive
Tracking Vendor Certifications: ISO, SOC, NEN, and Why It Matters
Track ISO, SOC, and NEN certifications easily with ToolHive. Stay ahead of expirations, manage vendor risks, and strengthen your compliance without extra work.
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General
What is the ePrivacy Directive and Why Does It Matter?
Think cookie banners come from GDPR? Think again. Learn how the ePrivacy Directive shapes online consent rules and why it matters for your business.
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ToolHive
Quick Setup, Big Impact: Setting Up Tools in Seconds
Discover how ToolHive’s Quick Setup makes it easy to create and request new tools in seconds, without slowing down your compliance process.
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General
Why Does the EU Fine American Companies So Often?
Discover why the EU often fines American tech companies under GDPR, and what all businesses can learn from these high-profile cases.
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General
So Many Laws, So Little Time: Where Should You Focus First?
Overwhelmed by GDPR, NIS2, DSA, and AI laws? Learn how to focus your compliance efforts step-by-step and build a strong foundation with ToolHive.
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General
Why Compliance Should Be a Team Effort, Not a Solo Job
Learn why compliance should be a team effort, not a solo job. Discover how small businesses can spread privacy and security tasks beyond IT alone.
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FAQ
What is GDPR? Part 6 – Right to erasure
Learn how the GDPR Right to Erasure empowers individuals to request deletion of their personal data, and what your company must do to stay compliant.
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ToolHive
Making Law Less Mysterious: Why We Ask Certain Questions in ToolHive
Discover how ToolHive’s Law Indicator shows the legal reasons behind the questions we ask, helping you build transparent and audit-ready compliance.
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GDPR
What Data Needs a User’s Consent?
Learn when user consent is mandatory under GDPR. Find out why legitimate interest is not enough for sensitive data, tracking, and behavioral advertising.
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ToolHive
Improve: Easily Find What's Missing in Your Tool Setup
Discover how ToolHive’s Improve feature helps you find and fix missing information in your tools and vendors. Stay audit-ready without the stress.
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HowTo
How To: Use the Task List to Stay On Top of Compliance Work
Tired of chasing people for compliance tasks? ToolHive’s Task List helps you turn scattered to-dos into structured teamwork.
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ToolHive
What ToolHive Shipped in 2024
A look at the key features we launched in 2024. From task tracking and passwordless login to improved approvals and tool setup. See what’s new in ToolHive.
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General
What’s coming in 2025: Future compliance changes you need to know
2025 is right around the corner. Let's talk about some of things that are planned for 2025 in compliance.
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General
Compliance changes in 2024: What’s new?
A lot of things changed this year, let's do an overview of all compliance changes in 2024.
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GDPR
How to build a GDPR-compliant data retention policy
Let's talk about how we can make a GDPR-compliant data retention policy for your business
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ToolHive
Common SaaS billing mistakes and how to avoid them
Shiny new software is exciting and cool, but can also bring challenges with billing. Let's talk about common mistakes with new software in a company.
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FAQ
What is GDPR? Part 5 – Right to object
We are diving deeper into GDPR. This time we will talk about the right to object processing.
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ToolHive
Suppliers and resellers with ToolHive
ToolHive can track many different type of Vendors like makers, vendors, suppliers and resellers. In this blog post we talk about how to add a reseller to ToolHive
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GDPR
Just because it’s online doesn’t mean it’s fair game: GDPR and public data
Data on the internet is not always free to use public data, GDPR might always apply.
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GDPR
The role of encryption in GDPR compliance
Learn how encryption plays a critical role in GDPR compliance, protecting sensitive data and helping businesses avoid costly breaches and fines.
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GDPR
What is NIS2?
Let's talk about a new development in compliance NIS2, what is it and what do you need to do
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ToolHive
Exploring Vendor Relationships with ToolHive
ToolHive can track many things like Tools and Vendors. In this 2-part blog post we dig into what Vendors do in ToolHive
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ToolHive
Streamlining Legal Document Management with ToolHive
In the Tool Highlight we talk about receiving money from your customers with tap to pay.
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ToolHive
Tracking of tool billing in ToolHive
Tracking of how tools are paid or even still used can be a a lot of work for the billing department. ToolHive can help make that more easy
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ToolHive
Making data easier with categories
Discover how ToolHive revolutionizes GDPR compliance with innovative data categorization, making data management and compliance a breeze!
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GDPR
What are data controllers and processors?
Let's talk about what Data Controller and Processor in GDPR are
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FAQ
What is important for a Privacy Policy
Privacy policies can be difficult to understand, read and make. But with some easy steps you can improve your privacy policy for your users.
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FAQ
What is GDPR? Part 4 - Right to restrict processing
We are diving deeper into GDPR. This time we will talk about the right to restrict processing.
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FAQ
What is GDPR? Part 3 - Right to be informed
We are diving deeper into GDPR. This time we will talk about the right to be informed.
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GDPR
Why GDPR is so important?
Let's talk about how ToolHive can help your company with GDPR compliance
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ToolHive
5 signs you need to audit your software stack
Lets talk about your software stack and the 5 signs you need to look out for in managing software for your company
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ToolHive
Help your new people onboard faster with tool discoverbility
Help your new employees discover everything your companies uses, improving their onboarding and help they understand what tools do
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Tool Highlight
Tool Highlight: Notion
Every so often we select a tool that we think you should use to make your life easier. This time we chose the note taken app Notion. Let me tell you why.
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FAQ
What is GDPR? Part 2 - Right to data portability
We are diving deeper into GDPR. This time we will talk about the right to data portability.
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FAQ
What is GDPR? Part 1 - Right to access
Let's talk about what GDPR is and why it is important for your business. In this multipart series we will talk about the different rights that GDPR gives your customers. This time we will talk about the right to access.
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Tool Highlight
Tool Highlight: Tap To Pay
In the Tool Highlight we talk about receiving money from your customers with tap to pay.
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FAQ
What are Data Processes?
Let's talk about what Data Processes are and why they are important.
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General
Why did we create ToolHive
A deepdive into why we created ToolHive
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HowTo
HowTo: Tool approval
With ToolHive, you can streamline how your colleagues start using new tools by setting up a tool approval process.
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FAQ
Why do I need ToolHive?
ToolHive is a Tool Management Tool. So why do I need that?
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General
ToolHive Roadmap
Let's talk about what is next for ToolHive.
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HowTo
HowTo: Access management
In this HowTo we will looking into requesting access to a Tool in ToolHive. So you don't have to find out who owns the tool and email them.
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Tool Highlight
Tool Highlight: Password managers
Every so often we select a tool that we think you should use to make your life easier. This time we chose Password Managers. Let me tell you why.
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