GDPR Glossary

What is Right to rectification?

The right to have inaccurate personal data corrected and incomplete data completed.

The right to rectification lets individuals have inaccurate personal data corrected without undue delay, and incomplete data completed.

Where feasible, you must also tell anyone you disclosed the data to about the correction.

In the Regulation

Art. 16 Right to rectification Art. 19 Notification obligation

Related terms

Subject access requestA request from an individual to see the personal data an organisation holds about them — usually answered within one month.Right to restriction of processingThe right to have processing paused — data stored but not otherwise used — in certain situations.

Need this applied to your business?

Our data-protection lawyers turn GDPR terms into a working plan.