Types of privacy assessments

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title: Types of privacy assessments
description: Privacy assessments can be sent using various methods such as entities, entity types, and processing activities.
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# Types of privacy assessments

Privacy assessments can be sent using various methods such as entities, entity types, and processing activities.

Multiple types of privacy assessments such as privacy screening assessment, privacy impact assessment, transfer impact assessment, and so on can be configured according to your requirements.

-   **[Initiating privacy assessments for an entity or a processing activity](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/privacy-workspace/trigger-privacy-assessmt-on-entities.md)**  
To discover whether a business process or an application is processing personal data, you can use privacy screening assessments. To regularly assess how processing activities are processing personal data, you can use privacy assessments such as privacy impact assessment \(PIA\).
-   **[Send a privacy assessment from a processing activity](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/privacy-workspace/send-privacy-asmt-from-pa.md)**  
Send a privacy assessment to a processing activity owner from a processing activity record to collect more information on why and how the processing activity is using personal information.
-   **[Send privacy assessments from multiple processing activities](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/privacy-workspace/send-privacy-assessments-from-multiple-processing-activities.md)**  
Send multiple privacy assessments from multiple processing activities. This capability enables you to filter the processing activities by business units, locations, data subjects, and data types.

**Parent Topic:**[Using Privacy Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/privacy-workspace/using-privacy-mgmt.md)