30-14-2818. Responsibility according to role -- processing data of minors, MCA

Montana Code Annotated 2025

TITLE 30. TRADE AND COMMERCE

CHAPTER 14. UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION

Part 28. Consumer Data Privacy Act

Responsibility According To Role -- Processing Data Of Minors

30-14-2818. Responsibility according to role -- processing data of minors. (1) A processor shall adhere to the instructions of a controller and shall assist the controller to meet the controller's obligations under 30-14-2811 and 30-14-2819, taking into account the nature of the processing and the information available to the processor. The processor shall assist the controller by:

(a) taking appropriate technical and organizational measures, insofar as this is possible, for the fulfillment of the controller's obligations under 30-14-2811; and

(b) providing information to enable the controller to conduct and document data protection assessments pursuant to 30-14-2819.

(2) A contract between a controller and a processor must satisfy the requirements of 30-14-2813(2).

(3) Nothing in this section may be construed to relieve a controller or processor from the liabilities imposed on the controller or processor by virtue of the controller's or processor's role in the processing relationship as described in 30-14-2811 and 30-14-2819.

(4) Determining whether a person is acting as a controller or processor with respect to a specific processing of personal data is a fact-based determination that depends on the context in which personal data is to be processed. A person that is not limited in the person's processing of personal data pursuant to a controller's instructions or that fails to adhere to the instructions is a controller and not a processor with respect to a specific processing of personal data. A processor that continues to adhere to a controller's instructions with respect to a specific processing of personal data remains a processor. If a processor begins, alone or jointly with others, determining the purposes and means of the processing of personal data, the processor is a controller with respect to the processing and may be subject to an enforcement action under 30-14-2817.

History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 567, L. 2025.