HOPEX Privacy Management > Describing Processing Activities > Using the Processing Activity Workflow
Using the Processing Activity Workflow
A standard workflow enables you to manage the lifecycle of a processing activity.
The chief privacy officer creates the processing activity. He asks the activity owner to complete the processing activity description. Once the processing activity has been described, the chief privacy officer can validate it. Then, pre-assessment and eventually DPIAs can be performed.
Asking the activity owner to complete processing activity description
To send the processing activity to the activity owner:
*Right-click the processing activity and select the following:
 
The activity owner can then connect to HOPEX Privacy Management with the corresponding profile and complete the description of the processing activity.
*You must have previously selected an activity owner in the processing activity property page.
Submitting processing activity description
After completing the processing activity description, the activity owner can send it to the Privacy team, who will in be able to start a pre-assessment based on what the activity owner specified.
Submitting pre-assessments and DPIAs
After the activity owner completed and submitted processing activity description, the Chief Privacy Officer can start assessments (pre-assessments and then DPIAs when needed.
*If the description of the processing activity is not entirely satisfactory, a member of the Privacy team might want to return it to the activity owner for review.