Yone IT Ltd

Data Processing Addendum

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The short version

In plain English. You own the content you put into Yone. We hold it and process it only to run the Service for you, on your instructions, and nothing else. It's stored in the United Kingdom. A small number of named suppliers help us run the Service — they're all listed in Annex III, and we'll tell you 30 days before that list changes. We don't train AI on your content and neither does our AI provider. If something goes wrong we'll tell you within 48 hours. When you leave, you have 30 days to export everything, then we delete it. You can get all of this in a countersigned copy if your procurement team needs one.

The rest of this document is the legally precise version of those promises. Where the plain-English boxes and the clause text differ, the clause text governs.


Part 1 — The agreement

1. Definitions

"Agreement" means the Yone IT Ltd Terms of Service, or any signed order form or subscription agreement, between the parties.

"Customer", "you" means the entity that has subscribed to the Service.

"Customer Personal Data" means Personal Data contained within Customer Data that Yone Processes on behalf of the Customer under the Agreement.

"Data Protection Law" means all laws relating to the Processing of Personal Data applicable to a party, including the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, the EU GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), the Swiss FADP, and applicable US state privacy laws.

"EU SCCs" means the standard contractual clauses annexed to Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914.

"IDTA" means the International Data Transfer Agreement issued by the Information Commissioner under s.119A of the Data Protection Act 2018, and "UK Addendum" means the International Data Transfer Addendum to the EU SCCs issued under the same section.

"Personal Data", "Controller", "Processor", "Data Subject", "Processing", "Personal Data Breach" and "Supervisory Authority" have the meanings given in the UK GDPR, and equivalent terms in other Data Protection Law are read accordingly.

"Service" means the Yone SaaS platform provided under the Agreement.

"Sub-Processor" means any third party engaged by Yone to Process Customer Personal Data.

"Yone", "we", "us" means Yone IT Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (Company No. 13073396), registered office 60 Cookridge Drive, LS16 7HW Leeds, United Kingdom.

Capitalised terms not defined here have the meaning given in the Agreement.


2. Scope, Roles and Order of Precedence

In plain English. For the content you put into Yone, you're in charge and we act on your instructions. For our own account and billing records, we're in charge. This document applies automatically — you don't have to sign anything, though you can if you want to.

2.1 Roles

For Customer Personal Data:

The Customer warrants that where it acts as a processor for a third-party controller, it has that controller's authority to enter into this Addendum and to give the instructions it gives.

2.2 Yone as Controller

Yone acts as an independent Controller in respect of account, billing, tax, business-verification, support and usage data described in its Privacy Policy. That Processing is outside the scope of this Addendum and is governed by the Privacy Policy.

2.3 Incorporation and precedence

This Addendum forms part of the Agreement and applies automatically from the date the Customer accepts the Agreement. No signature is required, although the parties may execute the signature block below.

In the event of conflict, the order of precedence is: (1) Annex IV and any applicable transfer clauses, (2) this Addendum, (3) the Agreement, (4) the Privacy Policy.

2.4 Changes

Yone may update this Addendum where required by a change in Data Protection Law, a change to the Service, or a change to transfer mechanisms, provided the update does not materially reduce the protection given to Customer Personal Data. Yone will give [30] days' notice of material updates.


3. Processing Instructions

In plain English. We only do what you tell us to. Your instructions are this contract plus however you and your users configure and use the product. If you ask us to do something outside the product, we can charge for it. If you ask us to do something unlawful, we'll say so and can pause until it's sorted.

3.1 Documented instructions

Yone will Process Customer Personal Data only on the Customer's documented instructions, including in relation to international transfers, unless required to do otherwise by law applicable to Yone. Where such a legal requirement applies, Yone will inform the Customer before Processing unless the law prohibits it on important grounds of public interest.

3.2 What constitutes an instruction

The Customer's documented instructions comprise:

Yone is not obliged to comply with instructions outside the scope of the Service. Where Yone reasonably considers an instruction requires material work beyond the Service as delivered, the parties will discuss a reasonable fee before Yone performs it.

3.3 Unlawful instructions

Yone will inform the Customer if, in its opinion, an instruction infringes Data Protection Law. Yone may suspend Processing of the affected data until the instruction is confirmed, amended or withdrawn, without liability.

3.4 Customer responsibilities

The Customer is responsible for:


4. Restrictions on Personal Data Submitted

In plain English. Yone is built for business architecture content, not for sensitive personal records. Please don't put health data, criminal records, children's data, card numbers or ID numbers into it. If you do, that's on you — the product isn't designed or certified for it.

The Service is designed for business architecture content. The Customer must not submit to the Service, and must not instruct Yone to Process:

in each case unless the parties have agreed otherwise in a signed written agreement that addresses the additional requirements.

The Service is not designed for, and Yone makes no representation as to its suitability for, such data. The Customer is solely responsible for any submission in breach of this Clause 4, and Clause 16.3 applies.


5. Confidentiality of Personnel

In plain English. Only the people who need access get it, they're all under confidentiality obligations that outlast their employment, and they're trained.

Yone will ensure that all personnel authorised to Process Customer Personal Data:


6. Security

In plain English. Annex II lists exactly what we do to keep your data safe. We can improve those measures but not water them down. Your side of the line is your own passwords and who you give access to.

Yone will implement and maintain the technical and organisational measures set out in Annex II, designed to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, having regard to the state of the art, the costs of implementation, and the nature, scope, context and purposes of Processing.

Yone may update the measures in Annex II from time to time, provided the updated measures do not materially reduce the overall level of security.

The Customer is responsible for the security measures within its own control, including credential hygiene, enforcement of multi-factor authentication where offered, and the access rights it grants its users. Yone is not responsible for the consequences of unauthorised access resulting from the Customer's or its users' failure to protect their credentials.


7. Sub-Processors

In plain English. Annex III names every supplier that touches your data and says what each one does. We'll give you 30 days' notice before adding a new one. If you object on data protection grounds and we can't find a workaround, you can cancel the affected part and get the unused money back. We stay responsible for whatever our suppliers do.

7.1 General authorisation

The Customer gives Yone general written authorisation to engage Sub-Processors, subject to this Clause 7 and Annex III.

7.2 Current Sub-Processors

The Sub-Processors approved as at the effective date are listed in full in Annex III to this Addendum. Annex III forms part of this Addendum and is the authoritative list; no separate sub-processor page needs to be consulted. A mirror of Annex III, together with an email notification signup, is maintained at [LINK — optional, see review notes].

7.3 Obligations on Sub-Processors

Before engaging a Sub-Processor, Yone will carry out reasonable due diligence on its technical and organisational measures, and will impose on it by written contract data protection obligations no less protective than those in this Addendum, including obligations of confidentiality, security and assistance.

Yone remains fully liable to the Customer for the performance of each Sub-Processor's obligations.

7.4 New Sub-Processors, notice and objection

The process for changing Annex III is set out in Annex III, Part B, and forms part of this Clause 7. In summary: [30] days' advance notice, a [15] day objection window on reasonable data protection grounds, good-faith discussion, and — if no alternative can be agreed — termination of the affected part of the Service with a pro-rata refund as the Customer's sole remedy.

7.5 Emergency replacement

Where a Sub-Processor must be replaced urgently for security, legal or availability reasons, Yone may do so immediately and will notify the Customer as soon as reasonably practicable, at which point the objection process in Annex III, Part B applies retrospectively.


8. Assistance with Data Subject Rights

In plain English. If one of your people asks to see, correct, export or delete their data, the product already lets you do that yourself. Where it doesn't, we'll help. If a data subject writes to us directly, we won't answer for you — we'll pass it straight to you.

Taking into account the nature of the Processing, Yone will assist the Customer by appropriate technical and organisational measures, insofar as possible, in fulfilling its obligation to respond to requests by Data Subjects to exercise their rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection.

The Service provides functionality allowing the Customer to access, correct, export and delete Customer Personal Data directly. Yone's assistance obligation is discharged where the Customer can perform the action itself using that functionality.

If Yone receives a request directly from a Data Subject relating to Customer Personal Data, Yone will not respond to it substantively, and will promptly forward it to the Customer and direct the Data Subject to the Customer.

Yone may charge a reasonable fee for assistance that is manifestly excessive, repetitive, or requires material engineering effort beyond the Service's functionality.


9. Assistance with Security, Breaches and Impact Assessments

In plain English. If you need to run a DPIA, answer a regulator, or handle a breach, we'll give you the information you need. Annex II and our security documentation usually cover it.

Taking into account the nature of Processing and the information available to it, Yone will provide reasonable assistance to the Customer in complying with its obligations under Articles 32 to 36 UK/EU GDPR, including:

Yone will make available the information reasonably necessary for these purposes, including its security documentation and Annex II. Clause 12 applies to requests for further information. Yone may charge a reasonable fee for assistance beyond the provision of standard documentation.


10. Personal Data Breach Notification

In plain English. If your data is breached, we tell you within 48 hours of finding out — not "eventually". You'll get what we know at the time, and updates as we learn more. You handle telling the regulator and the individuals, because you're the controller. Neither of us names the other publicly without agreeing first.

Yone will notify the Customer without undue delay, and in any event within [48] hours, after becoming aware of a Personal Data Breach affecting Customer Personal Data.

The notification will include, to the extent known at the time and supplemented as further information becomes available:

Yone will take reasonable steps to contain and remediate the breach and will cooperate with the Customer's reasonable investigation. Notification is not an acknowledgement of fault or liability.

The Customer is responsible for any notification to a Supervisory Authority or to Data Subjects in respect of Customer Personal Data. Neither party will name the other in a public statement about a breach without prior written consent, unless legally required.


11. Data Residency and International Transfers

In plain English. Your content is stored in the UK. Some of our suppliers are abroad — Annex III says which, and Annex IV says what legal protections cover those transfers. EU customers are covered by the UK's adequacy decision, and if that ever lapses, EU Standard Contractual Clauses kick in automatically without either of us having to do anything. If a government asks us for your data, we tell you and push back where we can.

11.1 Data residency

Customer Personal Data is hosted and stored at rest in the United Kingdom. Yone may add further hosting regions and will update Annex I and its Privacy Policy before doing so.

Limited Processing takes place outside the United Kingdom where a Sub-Processor listed in Annex III is located elsewhere, as identified in that Annex. Yone does not warrant that the Service satisfies data localisation requirements outside the United Kingdom.

11.2 Transfers from the EEA to the United Kingdom

The European Commission renewed its adequacy decision for the United Kingdom on 19 December 2025, effective until 27 December 2031. Transfers of Customer Personal Data from the EEA to Yone in the United Kingdom are therefore made on the basis of that adequacy decision.

If the adequacy decision is withdrawn, suspended, invalidated or allowed to lapse, the EU SCCs (Module Two: controller to processor) are deemed incorporated into this Addendum and take effect automatically, completed as set out in Annex IV, without further action by either party.

11.3 Transfers from the United Kingdom to third countries

Where Yone transfers Customer Personal Data to a Sub-Processor outside the United Kingdom, it will do so only where one of the following applies:

The mechanism relied on for each Sub-Processor is identified in Annex III. Copies are available to the Customer on request.

11.4 Government access requests

If Yone receives a legally binding request from a public authority for disclosure of Customer Personal Data, it will:

Yone will, where permitted, publish aggregate statistics on such requests.


12. Audit and Information Rights

In plain English. You can audit us, but start with the documentation — that answers most questions. If you need more, you can inspect once a year with 30 days' notice, during working hours, limited to systems that touch your data. You pay, unless we turn out to be in material breach.

Yone will make available to the Customer all information reasonably necessary to demonstrate compliance with Article 28 UK/EU GDPR, and will allow for and contribute to audits, including inspections, conducted by the Customer or an auditor mandated by it.

The parties agree that this obligation is satisfied in the first instance by Yone providing:

Where the above is insufficient to demonstrate compliance, or following a Personal Data Breach, the Customer may request an on-site or remote audit, subject to the following:


13. Deletion and Return of Customer Personal Data

In plain English. Export whenever you like. After you leave you have 30 days to get everything out. Then we delete it from live systems within 30 days and from backups within another 7 as they rotate. We keep invoices for six years because tax law requires it — nothing else.

On termination or expiry of the Agreement, Yone will, at the Customer's election, delete or return Customer Personal Data, and delete existing copies, unless required to retain it by law applicable to Yone.

In practice:

Stage Timing
Export at any time during the subscription Self-service, or via contact@yone.co.uk
Grace Period — export still available after termination [30] days from the effective date of termination
Deletion from live systems Within [30] days of the end of the Grace Period
Purge from backups Within a further 7 days, per backup rotation
Billing, invoice and tax records retained 6 years (UK statutory requirement)
Client-side cache on end-user devices Cleared on logout; otherwise persists on the device until next login or until the user clears browser data. Outside Yone's control — see Annex II §13

Data held in backups pending rotation remains subject to this Addendum and to Annex II. Any data retained under a legal obligation remains subject to the confidentiality and security obligations in this Addendum and will be Processed only for the purpose requiring its retention.

Yone will confirm deletion in writing on the Customer's written request.


14. Artificial Intelligence Features

In plain English. When your users invoke an AI feature, the content of that request goes to our AI provider to generate an answer and comes straight back. It is not used to train any model — not ours, not theirs. Nothing is decided automatically about anyone; a human always reviews the output before it's saved.

Where the Customer or its users invoke the Service's AI Features, Customer Personal Data contained in the submitted content is transmitted to the AI Sub-Processor identified in Annex III for the purpose of generating a response. In relation to that Processing:


15. California and Other US State Privacy Laws

In plain English. For US customers: we're your service provider, we don't sell or share your data, and we don't use it for anything except running the Service for you.

Where the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA ("CCPA") applies to Customer Personal Data:

Equivalent obligations apply, and Yone acts in the equivalent role, under the comprehensive privacy laws of Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana and other US states, to the extent applicable.


16. Liability

In plain English. The liability cap in the Terms covers this document too — it's one shared cap, not two. Nothing here limits what a regulator or an individual can claim against either of us directly. If you break Clause 4 and put sensitive data in, you cover the consequences.

16.1 Cap

Each party's liability arising out of or in connection with this Addendum is subject to the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in the Agreement. The limitations in the Agreement apply to the parties' aggregate liability under the Agreement and this Addendum taken together, and not separately to each.

16.2 Statutory liability preserved

Nothing in this Clause 16 limits either party's liability to a Data Subject or to a Supervisory Authority under Data Protection Law, or any liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

16.3 Customer indemnity

The Customer will indemnify Yone against all losses, damages, liabilities, fines, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from:


17. Term and Survival

This Addendum takes effect on the effective date of the Agreement and continues until Yone has ceased all Processing of Customer Personal Data in accordance with Clause 13.

Clauses 5, 6, 10, 11, 13, 16 and 18 survive termination for as long as Yone retains any Customer Personal Data.


18. General


Part 2 — The annexes

Annex I — Details of Processing

A. Parties

Data exporter / Controller The Customer, as identified in the Agreement
Data importer / Processor Yone IT Ltd, Company No. 13073396, 60 Cookridge Drive, LS16 7HW Leeds, United Kingdom. Contact: contact@yone.co.uk

B. Subject matter and nature of the Processing

Provision of a cloud-based business architecture SaaS platform, comprising hosting, storage, structuring, retrieval, organisation, display, transmission, backup, and — where the Customer's users invoke them — analysis and content generation by AI Features, together with support, security monitoring and deletion.

C. Purpose of the Processing

To provide, secure, maintain and support the Service in accordance with the Agreement, and as further instructed by the Customer through its use of the Service.

D. Categories of Data Subjects

The Customer determines what it submits. Typically:

E. Categories of Personal Data

F. Special category data

None. The Customer is prohibited from submitting special category or criminal offence data under Clause 4.

G. Frequency of Processing

Continuous, for the duration of the Agreement.

H. Duration of Processing

For the term of the Agreement, plus the Grace Period and deletion periods in Clause 13, plus any statutory retention period.

I. Location of Processing

Storage at rest: United Kingdom. Additional Processing locations as identified in Annex III.

Client-side caching: the Service caches unsaved drafts, interface preferences and recently viewed content in browser storage on the Customer's own end-user devices, to provide autosave and resilience against connection loss. That storage is under the Customer's control, not Yone's. Yone clears it on logout. See Annex II §14 and the Cookie and Similar Technologies Policy.

J. Sub-Processors

See Annex III.


Annex II — Technical and Organisational Measures

Reviewer's note: every line below must be true today. Delete anything you do not actually do — an aspirational Annex II is a misrepresentation, and it is the first document a customer's security team will test you against.

1. Access control

2. Encryption

3. Network and infrastructure security

4. Logical separation

5. Availability and resilience

6. Logging and monitoring

7. Secure development and vulnerability management

8. Personnel

9. Sub-processor management

10. Incident response

11. Data minimisation and deletion

12. Physical security

13. Client-side storage

14. Certifications

None currently held


Annex III — Sub-Processors

In plain English. This is the complete list of outside companies that touch data you put into Yone. Part A is the list. Part B is what happens when it changes. Part C names companies people often assume are on the list but aren't, and explains why.

Part A — Current Sub-Processors

Last reviewed: [01-Septmber-2026]

# Sub-Processor What they do Legal entity and location Data they can access Retention by them Transfer mechanism
1 Microsoft Azure Application hosting, database, object storage, backups Microsoft Limited, United Kingdom All Customer Personal Data For the term, plus backup rotation N/A — UK
2 Anthropic PBC AI Features — large language model inference Anthropic PBC, United States Content submitted to AI Features only. Not used for model training. Transient, plus provider abuse-monitoring window UK IDTA / UK Addendum to EU SCCs
3 Microsoft Office 365 Account, security and service emails Microsoft Limited, United Kingdom Name, business email address

Yone may also disclose Customer Personal Data to professional advisers, auditors and insurers under confidentiality obligations, and to law enforcement or regulators where legally required. These are not Sub-Processors.

Part B — How this list changes

This Part forms part of Clause 7 and is binding.

1. Notice. Yone will notify the Customer at least [30] days before adding or replacing a Sub-Processor, by email to the account contact and, where maintained, by updating the mirror page and notifying subscribers to it.

2. Objection window. The Customer may object in writing within [15] days of notice, on reasonable grounds relating to data protection. An objection must state those grounds. Silence within the window is acceptance.

3. Resolution. The parties will discuss the objection in good faith. Yone will use reasonable efforts to offer a commercially reasonable alternative, workaround, or configuration that avoids the objected-to Sub-Processor.

4. If no resolution. If no alternative is agreed within [30] days of the objection, the Customer may terminate the affected part of the Service on written notice. Yone will refund prepaid fees covering the period after termination on a pro-rata basis. This is the Customer's sole and exclusive remedy in respect of the objection.

5. Emergency changes. Where a Sub-Processor must be replaced urgently for security, legal or availability reasons, Yone may act immediately and give notice as soon as reasonably practicable. Steps 2 to 4 then apply from the date of that notice.

6. Removals. Removing a Sub-Processor, or narrowing the data one can access, does not require notice or trigger an objection right.

Part C — Not Sub-Processors of Customer Personal Data

These are named because customers frequently ask, and because they appear in Yone's Privacy Policy in a different role.

Company Role Why it is not a Sub-Processor here
Stripe Payment processing across all billing arrangements (Clauses 6.1–6.3); merchant of record for customers outside the UK/EEA and for Individual Customers in the UK/EEA Processes billing and transaction data — name, email, billing address, payment details — for which Yone is Controller, not Customer Personal Data processed on the Customer's behalf. Stripe determines its own purposes and means for processing this data (fraud prevention, financial regulatory compliance) and acts as an independent controller regardless of which billing arrangement applies. Stripe has no access to Customer Data.
Google (Analytics) Analytics on Yone's separate public marketing website Outside the scope of this Addendum and of the Service. Not present in the authenticated platform and has no access to Customer Data.
[EU ART. 27 REPRESENTATIVE — INSERT] Statutory representative under Article 27 Acts as a contact point for data subjects and supervisory authorities. Does not access Customer Data.

Part D — AI Model Routing Table

This table is the single source of truth for which AI model, provider and deployment configuration handles a given request. Other clauses (Clause 8 and Clause 17 of the Terms of Service, and Clause 14 above) refer to this table rather than restating it.

Model family Provider Contracting entity Deployment type Tiers (live today) Status
Claude Anthropic direct Anthropic, PBC, United States n/a Shared, BYOK GA
gpt-5.6-luna, gpt-6-astra Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Microsoft Limited, United Kingdom Global Standard Shared GA
Mistral Large Microsoft Azure AI Foundry same as above Global Standard Shared GA
Kimi K2.6 Microsoft Azure AI Foundry same as above Global Standard Shared GA

Note on deployment type and data location: deployment type governs where processing occurs, not just where the resource is created. "Global Standard" deployments store data at rest within the UK Azure geography, but prompt/response processing may occur in any Azure region worldwide where that model is available, per Microsoft's own Global Standard terms. "n/a" (Anthropic direct) means Anthropic's own infrastructure applies instead of Azure's — currently US-based, with no region selection available.

Dedicated key (a client-specific model configuration and key, administrator-provisioned) is available on request but is not a self-service option. Dedicated deployment (an isolated environment with guaranteed capacity) is available on request, subject to a separate agreement, and is not a standing self-service feature.


Annex IV — Transfer Mechanisms

1. EEA to United Kingdom

Primary mechanism: the European Commission's adequacy decision for the United Kingdom of 19 December 2025, in force until 27 December 2031.

Fallback, effective automatically if adequacy ceases to apply: the EU SCCs, Module Two (controller to processor), incorporated by reference and completed as follows:

2. United Kingdom to third countries

For onward transfers to Sub-Processors outside the United Kingdom, Yone relies on the IDTA, or the UK Addendum to the EU SCCs with the EU SCCs completed as above, supported by a documented data protection test. Where the Sub-Processor is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and the UK Extension, Yone may rely on that framework instead. The mechanism applying to each Sub-Processor is identified in Annex III Part A.

3. Switzerland

Where the Swiss FADP applies, references to the GDPR are read as references to the FADP, the competent authority is the FDPIC, and the term "member state" does not exclude Data Subjects in Switzerland from enforcing their rights in their place of habitual residence.


Signature (optional)

This Addendum applies automatically on acceptance of the Agreement and does not require signature. Where the Customer requires a countersigned copy:

Yone IT Ltd

Name: ______________________ Title: ______________________

Signature: ______________________ Date: ______________

Customer

Entity name: ______________________________________________

Name: ______________________ Title: ______________________

Signature: ______________________ Date: ______________


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