If your organisation handles any personal data (for example customers or employees) then in short – yes, you do. Just how much you need to worry depends on many factors, such as how much personal data, what you do with it, and the type of personal data you are processing.

Privacy Partners is here to help you establish what this means to you, from startups and scale ups, through to established enterprises.

Privacy Partners will take away that worry for you. We provide a free initial consultation which should give you a really good idea of how your business looks in terms of data protection and GDPR compliance. It all starts with this friendly, informal chat to establish the fundamental position you are in, and what the next steps might be.

The Privacy Partners Audit & Gap Analysis service involves a comprehensive review of your organisation's current privacy practices to identify areas of non-compliance and potential vulnerabilities. Through meticulous assessment and analysis, we provide detailed recommendations and actionable strategies to ensure a robust data protection framework aligned with regulatory standards.

At Privacy Partners we completely understand this concern. Our aim is to match our privacy solution to your specific needs, with minimum disruption. For a startup or SME this can be a genuine low-cost entry where providing real benefit and demonstrable compliance measures are the focus.

Yes, you can. Privacy Partners provides DPO as a Service for organisations of any size in any business sector. Outsourcing this service provides you access to a dedicated and qualified data protection expert without the overhead of employing an in-house DPO, providing a genuinely cost-effective solution.

No, Privacy Partners will guide you through what you need to do to demonstrate and evidence your data protection measures. Yes, there are some key documents you will need to help with, but it is a collaborative effort and Privacy Partners will support you all the way and minimise time and any potential disruption.

Initially no, you won’t. This is all part of the service Privacy Partners will provide you. Our job is to make sure you understand your responsibilities under the GDPR in an accessible way that makes sense for your business. We will provide you the tools to demonstrate the really important point, that you have the measures in place to lawfully protect the personal data you are processing.

Privacy Partners can provide this response service for you. The GDPR has some specific stipulations for these situations, including how quickly you need to respond, who you might need to notify, and what you need to say. We will lead you through this sometimes stressful process. One of the key elements for Privacy Partners is to put you in a position where such situations are rare, through having the correct measures in place first, and good staff training.

Yes, Privacy Partners provides data protection training programs tailored to educate employees on privacy best practices, regulatory requirements, and the importance of data protection within the organisation.