TrustMark™ DPA: Independent Certification for Trusted Data Processing Agreements

TrustMark™ DPA certification shows that your Data Processing Agreement meets defined standards for transparency, fairness, and global privacy compliance.

Build trust faster, reduce friction in privacy review, and show that your DPA stands up to independent analysis and certification.

TrustMark™ Your DPA

TrustMark™ DPA certification shows that your Data Processing Agreement meets defined standards for privacy compliance, fairness, and clarity.

Using Certify™, TermScout analyzes and benchmarks your DPA against thousands of real-world agreements, then applies legal review to determine whether it qualifies for TrustMark™ DPA certification

Why TrustMark™ DPA Certification Matters

Data trust isn’t optional; it’s essential.
Every agreement that touches personal or customer data reflects your company’s commitment to privacy, accountability, and fairness. TrustMark™ DPA certification helps you prove that commitment by showing that your DPA has been independently analyzed, benchmarked, and certified for fairness, clarity, and privacy alignment.

Step 1

Submit Your DPA for Certification Review

Submit your DPA so we can analyze it, benchmark it against real-world DPAs, and determine whether it qualifies for TrustMark™ DPA certification.

Using Certify™, our process analyzes each section for clarity, fairness, and privacy-related commitments, then benchmarks the DPA against real-world market agreements and relevant privacy criteria.

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Step 2

Analysis, Benchmarking, and Legal Review

Certify™ benchmarks your DPA against thousands of live-market agreements and defined privacy-related certification criteria.

Then, our legal experts review the benchmarking and analysis results to confirm accuracy, completeness, and clarity before issuing certification.

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Step 3

Receive TrustMark™ DPA Certification and Report

You’ll receive a certification report showing that your DPA meets TrustMark™ DPA certification standards and how it benchmarks against real-world agreements.

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A great way to reduce negotiation time in B2B contracting. Great team, helpful support. TermScout is really leading the way to make contracting easier for B2B organizations like mine.

Alex Raymond

Founder & CEO

TermScout Gives Contract Negotiators a Significant Edge and Approvers Excellent Risk Transparency. I really enjoy working with the TS team and honing the software to be a key piece of the workflow for many clients who have high-volume contracts and limited people resources to review each one.

Andrew Banquer

VP, Corporate Solutions

When we look at vendor contracts, we leverage TermScout reviews and rating data to help us quickly understand which vendors are going to be easy to work with and which ones are going to require extensive negotiations.

VP, Legal

NetApp

"TrustMark™ DPA gives our teams and customers shared confidence that data is protected and compliance is built in from the start. It helps us move faster without compromising integrity."

Kimberly Samalis

Lead Commercial Contracts Manager

"In the age of digital agreements and AI, protecting data is a crucial part of protecting trust. Our participation in TrustMark™ DPA is yet another way Docusign is helping our 1.7 million global customers create, commit to, and manage their agreements with confidence."

Jessica Nguyen

Deputy General Counsel, AI Innovation at Docusign

"This certification provides assurance to our customers that the agreement is mutually protective and allows our sales team to expedite the sales process

Will Dugoni

Director, Head of Commercial Legal at Webflow

Certify™ NDA is the industry’s first independent certification for Non-Disclosure Agreements.

Powered by TermScout’s AI-driven contract intelligence and validated by legal experts, it analyzes each NDA against thousands of real-world deals to confirm it meets accepted market standards for fairness, clarity, and balance.

Instead of waiting days for manual legal review, counterparties receive a data-backed Certified NDA, turning a potential bottleneck into a trust accelerator.

NDAs are often the first contract in a business relationship; and frequently one of the biggest delays. Instead of waiting days for legal review, Certify™ NDA provides an independently certified agreement that’s been analyzed for fairness, clarity, and alignment with market standards.

This certification helps counterparties feel confident signing immediately, reducing negotiation cycles and eliminating the usual legal bottlenecks.

By removing friction at the start of the deal, businesses can close faster, increase win rates, and build trust from the very first document.

Speed up your deal cycles with Certify™ NDA. This AI-powered certification ensures your NDA is pre-approved and ready to sign, reducing delays and increasing close rates.

To certify your NDA, start by giving it to the TermScout team.

The Certify™ NDA engine runs an AI-powered analysis comparing your agreement against thousands of real-world NDAs.

Next, TermScout’s legal experts validate the agreement for fairness, clarity, and overall market readiness.

If it passes all benchmarks, your NDA is awarded certification, including a public Certify™ NDA badge and a downloadable report you can share with counterparties to speed up reviews.

To qualify for Certify™ NDA, an NDA must meet strict criteria designed to ensure fairness, clarity, and mutual protection. TermScout evaluates the NDA against thousands of market-standard agreements using AI analysis and legal review. Key elements that typically qualify an NDA include:

No residuals clauses allowing retained use of confidential info
Fully mutual material provisions (e.g., scope, exclusions, term)
No marking requirements for protecting confidential information
No non-solicitation provisions that restrict future business activity
No indemnification obligations that shift legal liability

These standards reflect what most counterparties are willing to sign without edits. NDAs that meet them are certified as deal-ready and awarded the Certify™ NDA badge and report.