A Guernsey trust can be used to hold any types of assets,
wherever situated, including intellectual property rights,
copyright, database rights and image rights, as well as licences to
access, process and store data, and confidentiality rights in the
data. A trust can be used to protect trust assets from claims of
third parties against the settlor and the beneficiaries.
This piece explores the uses of Guernsey trusts to hold all types
of data assets, including examples of structures and the regulatory
background.
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The purpose of this note is to explain and set out some of the
possible benefits of a data trust for securing data and satisfying
data protection requirements.