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Exposure Test · Credit default registers

How much could your current way of registering unpaid debts cost you?

Twelve questions, one per screen. At the end, an estimate in euros of your annual exposure to claims for improper registration, calculated using the criteria applied by the Spanish Provincial Courts of Appeal (Audiencias Provinciales).

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The 5 mistakes

Credit default registers: the 5 mistakes for which the Provincial Courts of Appeal are finding against Spanish companies

Awards of 3,000 to 10,000 euros plus costs for defective entries in credit default registers. The 5 mistakes the Provincial Courts are punishing.

The 5 mistakes

Exposure Test

Twelve questions, one per screen. At the end, an estimate in euros of your annual exposure to claims for improper registration, calculated using the criteria applied by the Spanish Provincial Courts of Appeal (Audiencias Provinciales).

Take the Exposure Test

Flash Audit

In 10 working days: your standard contracts, your reporting protocol for credit default registers and a sample of files. Exposure report and prioritised remediation plan.

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Services

Contract Hardening

An information clause compliant with Article 13 GDPR naming the registers, and a prior payment demand process with an evidence file.

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Serial Claims Defence

If claims are already arriving: a block defence strategy, detection of unfounded claims and containment of costs.

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Flash Audit

In 10 working days: your standard contracts, your reporting protocol for credit default registers and a sample of files. Exposure report and prioritised remediation plan.

See the service

The case law

Article 5 GDPR · Data accuracy principle

Only debts that are certain, due, payable and beyond doubt may be reported to a credit default register. Everything else is paid for. So is complying without being able to prove it.

The disputed debt you registered is an adverse judgment in the making

Article 6 GDPR · Legitimate interests

Necessity, suitability and proportionality. Your company must be able to pass all three in writing before it reports a single item of data to a credit default register. And if someone whose identity was impersonated sues you, fault is presumed to be yours.

Legitimate interests is not a box you tick: it is a test with three parts

Article 13 GDPR · Duty to inform

If the contract does not name the specific credit default register to which the data will be reported, registration requires a prior payment demand. Six judgments from a single Provincial Court of Appeal repeat it, word for word.

The clause your contracts have carried for ten years is the reason you will lose the next case

Data protection · Art. 17 GDPR

Your company may have registered a debt impeccably and still lose the case. Article 17 GDPR has deadlines and a required form. Whoever ignores them pays.

A badly handled erasure request turns a correct entry into an adverse judgment

Data protection · Article 9 GDPR

The courts treat biometric identification as special category data: prohibited by default, permitted only with a dual legal basis. Before you switch on the reader, it is worth knowing which side your system falls on.

Fingerprint or face clocking in: the terminal you installed for convenience may be your biggest legal risk