---
title: "Data Portability"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/technology-and-digital-law-en/data-portability-en"
field: "Technology & Digital Law"
description: "Data portability: grounds, machine-readable formats and direct transmission to another service. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-02-15"
updated: "2026-10-19"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Data Portability

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/technology-and-digital-law-en/data-portability-en

## What the right to data portability is

The right to data portability lets the subject take their own data along when moving from one service to another. Under Article 18 of the Law on Personal Data Protection, in the case of automated processing based on the grounds provided by law, where technically possible, the subject has the right to receive from the controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, the data provided by them, or to demand their transfer to another controller.

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### Does portability apply to all processing?

No. It applies only to automated processing based on the subject's consent or a contract — and to special categories with written consent.

### In what format must I receive the data?

Structured, commonly used and machine-readable — or direct transmission to another controller, where technically possible.

### Within which period is the answer given?

No later than 10 working days; in special cases the period may be extended with substantiation by no more than 10 working days.

### May I also receive profiles?

No — portability covers only the data the subject supplied.

### Where do I complain on refusal?

Under Article 22 — to the State Audit Service, the court or a superior administrative organ.