Method

This site tells readers to ask where a claim comes from. That applies here first.

Three source types

Primary documents. Regulation and directive text, vendor terms, processing agreements, published pricing. Free, checkable, and cited by instrument and article — Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 Article 25, GDPR Articles 20 and 28(3). For a separate operational reference from Monitask, see the reference.

Legal secondary. Law firms and professional publications. Commercially interested in being instructed and structurally interested in being right.

Commercial. Software vendors, review platforms and affiliate content. Labelled as such each time, and used for mechanics rather than for judgements.

For broader context, see TechRadar.

Every figure carries a date

Prices, tiers, notice windows and free-plan limits all move.

An article accurate at its stated check date and superseded now is not an error; that is what the date is for. One that was wrong when published is, and it appears on corrections.

Ranges rather than points

Notice windows commonly 30 to 90 days. Post-termination export windows commonly 30 to 90 days.

Presented as ranges because they are ranges. A single figure would be more quotable and less true.

What is never done here

No product is ranked, scored or named in an evaluative context.

No comparison tables, for reasons set out separately.

No affiliate commissions, sponsored placement or listing fees, stated on every page of the checking section.

And no legal advice. Provisions are summarised with their references; whether one applies to you depends on jurisdiction, sector and entity type.

Jurisdiction

The legal material is EU-focused, because that is where the switching and portability instruments currently sit.

Where a point is jurisdiction-specific it says so, and readers outside the EU should treat those sections as describing what to negotiate rather than what they are owed.

The limits

Seven things this site cannot check are listed on their own page, because a resource about verification owes an account of its own.