Data Protection Officer
Highly qualified and motivated data protection professionals
Data Protection Officers are now mandatory for many organisations under data protection law. Where an organisation wishes to appoint a DPO or data privacy consultant, Data Compliant provides a personal, affordable service to organisations without the budget, resource, expertise, or appetite to appoint an internal DPO.
Clients' time and resource needs vary - we have a flexible approach and work with our clients to assess the balance between your internal time, expertise and resource, and the amount of our time that you need - whether that's as little as half a day per month, or several days per week.
To chat about your needs, email dc@datacompliant.co.uk or call 01787 277742
Appointing a DPO
Our outsourced Data Protection Officer service delivers flexible, tailored data protection support, advice and expertise to your organisation.
Data Compliant begins by helping organisations assess the need for a mandatory – or voluntary – DPO. Where a DPO is not required, Data Compliant provides qualified consultants to help clients understand and navigate international data protection compliance.
Where a DPO is needed, our DPOs will help you address your international data protection obligations without distracting your core team from their daily business activities. Individual DPOs specialise in specific business and industry sectors. Our clients also benefit from the shared knowledge and experience of the full DPO and consultancy team.
Key Benefits of Outsourced DPOs / Consultants
Benefits of outsourcing your data protection function include:
- As an operating expense, you pay only for the time your use
- The time requirements are flexible, and can be ramped up or down based on whether you have a large project, or simply need ongoing maintenance
- You do not need to consider staff benefits, holiday, sickness, appraisals, tax, or other employment issues
- We work with a range of data protection platforms, tools, software solutions and can provide you with informed guidance
- An unbiased approach – we have the advantage of being independent, unconflicted, and able to consider your issues with fresh eyes
DPO Role and Key Deliverables
DCi DPOs or consultants are all compliance and subject matter experts covering a range of business sectors, and would work with you, either remotely or at your offices, as a key member of your team. Our DPOs and consultants are experienced strategic thinkers, used to dealing with all levels of the organisation, with a deep understanding of the importance of your business goals , and have a mindset that enables those goals to be met …. compliantly.
Your DPO or consultant will act as your data protection interpreter, educator, and most importantly, enabler. In order to achieve this, the role would typically include:
- Initial audit and healthcheck to understand your level of compliance with the legislation
- Determine remedial actions required around governance, compliance and security measures, prioritise and assist in implementation
- Advise your senior officers how to achieve strategic goals compliantly
- Assist you to embed data protection throughout your organisation
- Guidance in development and embedding of Information Security Management System policies and procedures
- Guidance with record-keeping and risk registers
- Guidance and assistance with embedding data privacy by design throughout the organisation, including assistance with data privacy impact assessments, legitimate interests assessments and similar
- Regular meetings to discuss ongoing work, new requirements and compliance concerns
- Detailed considerations for data processing agreements, data sharing agreements, transfer mechanisms and similar
- Ongoing monitoring of your compliance with the GDPR’s Accountability principle
- Ongoing review of your website, privacy policy, cookie management and data capture statementsGuidance on Fair processing statements, T&Cs, Privacy & Cookie policies
- Reviews of suppliers both in terms of due diligence and contracts
- Tracking of non-conformance issues, such as data subject requests, complaints and ICO queries
- Providing and recommending data privacy and security training
- Ongoing updates on the legislation and its interpretation
- Act as contact point / liaison for data protection authorities
- Support businesses in events such as data breach, ICO investigations, subject access requests, or data subject complaints
Data Compliant International
International data protection consultants and DPOs.
22 Friars Street, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2AA
Email: dc@datacompliant.co.uk
Tel No.: +44 (0) 1787 277 742
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