Compliance & Data Residency for Enterprise Marketplaces

Enterprises need predictable compliance controls. Build them into configuration, not code.

Scope & Principles:

• Data Minimization: Collect only what’s required.

• Segregation: Separate PII, payments, and operations.

• Residency: Store data in the region where it’s collected.

• Retention: Define explicit time-to-live for data.

Example Residency Policy: PII stored in regional datacenters (e.g., EU or US), encrypted with region-specific keys, orders retained for 10 years, KYC docs for 1 year. PCI handled via tokenization with a payment provider, so the platform never touches card data.

Operational Checklist:

• Perform Data Protection Impact Assessments for each vertical.

• Automate DSR (access, delete) requests.

• Keep immutable audit logs.

• Maintain incident runbooks with regional contacts.