External DPO Support & Compliance Services

Data Protection Officer Support Services

Our Data Protection Officer (DPO) support service is specially designed to help existing DPOs, General Counsels, legal and data protection departments.

Compliance with data protection law is no longer negotiable for businesses across the UK. Whether you are a mandated DPO or a designated data protection individual in your business it can be challenging to meet data protection compliance where matters can be time sensitive and resources limited.

Our team offer a comprehensive range of services from complex privacy operations to additional day-to-day support. We work closely with you and understand your business objectives, so you can be confident in meeting your data protection compliance requirements.

As well as offering support services to in-house DPOs, we can provide a fully outsourced DPO service, offering tiered support to meet the needs of your business.

• Assessing whether you should appoint a DPO
• Informing and advising your employees on their data protection obligations
• Providing bespoke staff training on the key data protection issues that apply to your business
• Carrying out data protection impact assessments, ahead of large scale projects or when your business processes high risk or sensitive information
• Assessing your cross-border transfers and ensuring you have the correct safeguard in place
• Ensuring your business follows ICO guidance and best practice recommendations relating to data retention policies
• Providing advice and support in relation to data breaches, and assisting with any subsequent investigations
• Supporting you with managing data subject access requests
• Devising a monitoring programme, among your staff

Partnering with us demonstrates that you are committed to taking data protection seriously.

Your DPO role is specialist in nature. You are the point of contact for all staff when any data protection issues arise internally and the public face of compliance for your organisation. Our lawyers consistently keep up-to-date with the field of data protection and they are used to working with businesses of all kinds across a wide range of industry sectors.

When you need it most, it’s crucial for you to be able to access the right data protection expertise quickly so you can practically apply the law to your operations.

If a data breach occurs, your business may incur sanctions and suffer reputational damage. Our experts can spot potential problem areas and advise on the appropriate action to help limit the risk of breaches from happening or assist in mitigation and liaison with the ICO if necessary. Our team regularly drafts bespoke training and helps implement controls to target and limit the risk across your vulnerable areas.

Many businesses choose to train key staff to carry out the DPO function, but this is expensive and time consuming. We provide practical support, ideal for existing DPOs who require additional support or expertise. Our data protection solicitors offer a cost‑effective service providing expert knowledge in their field.

As external experts we can take an objective, high-level view of the data protection issues facing your business, removing any conflicts of interest, and reducing internal bureaucracy. In practice this means we can assist your different functions to implement a culture of data protection by default and design at the development of any new product or service.

Our data protection team advises on all aspects of data protection legislation. In the course of our work, we find many organisations are concerned about their obligations in complying with data protection laws. We help ensure that you have the correct advice on how to maintain compliance with the current legislation.

Choose a legal partner you can trust: we’ll help protect your goals, your business and your people so you can move forward with confidence and focus on growing your business.

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