The Compliance Calendar in Secure Privacy's Governance Solution gives your privacy and compliance team a visual, centralized overview of all upcoming regulatory deadlines, recurring tasks, and key compliance dates. By pulling due dates from across the platform — including DSAR deadlines, DPIA review schedules, and risk assessment dates — it keeps teams aligned on what needs to happen and when.
Who Is This For?
Compliance managers tracking regulatory deadlines and recurring compliance obligations
Team leads monitoring task due dates and assignments across their departments
Privacy officers planning audit schedules, DPIA review cycles, and annual compliance activities
Accessing the Compliance Calendar
From the left sidebar in the Governance Solution, click Calendar. The calendar displays in monthly view by default, with navigation controls to move between months and years.
Adding and Viewing Tasks
Adding a task directly
Click + Add Task in the top-right corner, or click on any date cell to create a task for that specific day. Fill in the task details — including name, description, assignee, and priority level.
Viewing existing tasks
Tasks created in the Task Management module that have due dates assigned automatically appear on the calendar. Click any task to view its full details, update its status, or reassign it.
Recurring Compliance Tasks
Set up recurring tasks for compliance activities that occur on a regular schedule. The calendar automatically generates upcoming instances so they are always visible on the timeline:
Monthly — privacy policy reviews and consent record checks
Quarterly — risk assessments and executive compliance reporting
Annual — DPIA reviews, annual compliance audits, and staff training cycles
Custom intervals — organization-specific compliance activities at any frequency
Compliance Calendar Features
Smart reminders
Enable notifications to receive deadline reminders in advance. Configure the lead time — 1 day, 3 days, or 1 week — based on the task's priority and complexity to ensure nothing is missed.
Cross-module deadline integration
The Compliance Calendar automatically pulls due dates from across the Governance Solution, providing a unified view of all time-sensitive obligations:
DSAR response deadlines from the DSAR module
Risk review due dates from Risk Management
DPIA review schedules from Impact Assessments
Workflow escalation dates from Workflow & Automation
Team-wide visibility
All team members with access to the Governance Solution can view the shared calendar — giving the entire compliance team visibility into upcoming activities, preventing duplicate work, and improving cross-department coordination.
Compliance Calendar Best Practices
Review the calendar weekly
A weekly calendar review ensures your team stays ahead of approaching deadlines — particularly for GDPR obligations with fixed response windows such as DSAR replies and breach notifications.
Use recurring tasks for all standard compliance activities
Setting up recurring tasks for regular obligations — policy reviews, risk assessments, training cycles — eliminates manual tracking and ensures nothing drops off the schedule as team members change.
Set reminders with adequate lead time for high-priority items
For complex or high-priority compliance tasks, configure reminders at least one week in advance — allowing time to gather evidence, involve stakeholders, or escalate where needed before the deadline arrives.
Encourage team members to check their assigned tasks regularly
The calendar is most effective as a shared team tool. Encourage all team members to check their assigned tasks regularly and update status — keeping the calendar accurate as a live reflection of your compliance program's progress.
Next Steps
Connect your tasks to Workflow & Automation for automatic deadline scheduling and escalation
Set up recurring tasks for your organization's key regulatory deadlines and annual compliance review cycles
Use Reporting & Analytics to review task completion rates and identify patterns in missed or delayed compliance activities
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the Compliance Calendar automatically show GDPR response deadlines such as DSAR windows?
Yes. The calendar integrates directly with the DSAR module, Risk Management, Impact Assessments, and Workflow & Automation modules — automatically surfacing their due dates on the calendar without manual entry. This ensures GDPR-mandated response windows are always visible alongside your internally scheduled compliance tasks.
Can recurring tasks be set to custom intervals rather than standard monthly or quarterly cycles?
Yes. In addition to standard recurring intervals — monthly, quarterly, and annual — the calendar supports custom recurrence settings for organization-specific compliance activities that do not follow a standard schedule.
Who can see the tasks on the shared calendar?
All team members with access to the Governance Solution can view the shared compliance calendar. Task visibility is governed by the permissions assigned to each user — ensuring sensitive compliance activities are accessible only to the relevant team members while maintaining a shared overview of upcoming deadlines for the whole team.