Territorial scope

Chapter 1 (Art. 1 – 4) — General provisions

Article 3

This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the United Kingdom, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the United Kingdom or not.
This Regulation applies to the relevant processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the United Kingdom by a controller or processor not established in the United Kingdom, where the processing activities are related to:
- (a)the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the United Kingdom; or
- (b)the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the United Kingdom.
In paragraph 2, “relevant processing of personal data” means processing to which this Regulation applies, other than processing described in Article 2(1)(a) or (b) or (1A).
This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data by a controller not established in the United Kingdom, but in a place where domestic law applies by virtue of public international law.