GDPR Compliance Consulting Services

Yes. GDPR has extraterritorial reach under Article 3 and applies to any organisation anywhere in the world that offers goods or services to people in the EU, even at no charge, or that monitors their behaviour such as through website analytics or tracking pixels. Non EU organisations must also designate an EU representative under Article 27 unless they fall within a narrow exemption. We assess your territorial scope and put proportionate measures in place for your level of EU data processing.

GDPR penalties are structured across two tiers. The lower tier covers technical and organisational failures such as inadequate data processing records or insufficient security measures and carries fines up to 10 million euro or 2 percent of global annual turnover, whichever is higher. The upper tier covers more serious violations including unlawful processing without a valid legal basis and infringements of data subject rights, with fines reaching 20 million euro or 4 percent of global turnover. Regulators can also suspend or ban processing activities entirely, which can halt EU operations.

A DPO is mandatory under Article 37 in three situations. You are a public authority or public body, your core activities require large scale systematic monitoring of individuals, or you process special category data such as health records, biometric data, or criminal conviction data at scale. Even when an appointment is not legally required, many organisations designate a DPO voluntarily to improve governance and demonstrate accountability to supervisory authorities. We provide external DPO as a service that fulfils both the mandatory and voluntary cases without the overhead of a permanent hire.

GDPR grants individuals the right to access their data, correct inaccuracies, request erasure, restrict processing, receive a portable copy, and object to certain uses. We build a central request intake channel, automated routing workflows that direct each request to the relevant data systems, identity verification steps to prevent fraudulent requests, and a fulfilment tracker that logs every response and its completion date to demonstrate compliance with the one month deadline. For organisations with complex data architectures we also build data inventories so personal data can be located across systems quickly and reliably.

Our GDPR audit runs over four to eight weeks depending on your data estate size and processing complexity. We begin by building Article 30 records that document every processing activity, legal basis, data category, and retention period. We then run a structured gap analysis across the full regulation and conduct DPIAs on any high risk activities identified. Each gap is rated by enforcement probability and business impact. The final output is a scored remediation report with a sequenced action plan covering consent, privacy notices, vendor data processing agreements, cross border transfer mechanisms, technical controls, and breach response procedures.