GDPR Compliance Services
UK GDPR compliance you can evidence: data mapping, DPIAs, breach readiness and technical measures that stand up to ICO questions.
Service Details
Our GDPR compliance service gives you a data protection programme you can evidence: you know what personal data you hold, why you hold it, how it is protected and what you would do if it leaked. When the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) or a customer asks, you can show your decisions rather than describe them.
The ICO is the UK regulator, and it expects accountability: records, assessments and controls that prove the thinking happened. We build that evidence through data mapping, Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), technical measures and breach readiness. It sits within our governance services, alongside the other frameworks and regulations we help clients meet.
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Fines under UK GDPR can reach £17.5 million or 4% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher. Most ICO action, though, starts with an organisation that cannot show what it decided and why.
Who GDPR applies to
UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 apply to almost every UK organisation that handles personal data, whether that is customer records, staff files, CCTV footage or a supporter database. Size does not exempt you, although the depth of what you need scales with the risk of your processing.
If you sell to or monitor people in the European Union, EU GDPR can apply too, and you may need a representative in the EU. The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 amends parts of the UK regime, with changes coming into force in stages, so your programme needs to keep pace.
The building blocks the ICO expects
What a defensible GDPR programme covers:
Know Your Data
A record of processing activities (RoPA) and data map showing what you hold, why, where it lives and how long you keep it.
Rights & Requests
Processes that answer subject access and other rights requests within one month, without a scramble.
Technical Controls
Encryption, access control and retention matched to the risk of the data, as Article 32 requires.
Breach Readiness
A tested playbook for deciding, within 72 hours, whether a breach must be reported to the ICO.
Underneath these sit the core principles: a lawful basis for each use of data, collecting only what you need, keeping it accurate, deleting it when you are done, and DPIAs before high-risk processing starts.
How we help
You get practical help sized to your data risk, not a binder of templates. The work runs in three stages.
- Gap analysis — We map the personal data you hold, review your records, policies and contracts, and show you where you stand and what to fix first.
- Remediation — We fix the gaps: retention schedules, subject request processes, DPIAs for high-risk processing, and the technical controls that protect the data.
- Evidence and ongoing support — We keep your RoPA and DPIAs current as processing changes, rehearse your breach playbook, and give you advice when new projects raise questions.
Privacy decided at design time
The cheapest DPIA is the one done before the contract is signed. We work with your product and technology teams so privacy decisions happen while changes are still easy to make.
That work links up with our application security and architecture and design practices, so new systems are built with data protection in mind rather than patched later.
Support at the level you need
A small business may need a health check and the essentials. An organisation processing special-category data, such as health records, needs DPIAs and ongoing oversight. We scope the work to your data risk and add support as your processing grows.
Health Check
Where you stand and what to fix first
DPIAs
Assessments for new high-risk processing
DPO Support
Ongoing advice and oversight, outsourced
We are not a law firm. We build the processes, records and controls, and where you need legal interpretation, your solicitor or in-house legal team should be involved.
Personal data, found and fenced
Data loss prevention and sensitivity labels across Microsoft 365 gave one client full visibility of where sensitive information lives, every document labelled, confidential material walled off from AI assistants such as Copilot. Retention, records and breach response all start from knowing what you hold.
Related frameworks and services
GDPR evidence overlaps with other frameworks, so you can build it once and use it several times. ISO 27001 Annex A controls and Cyber Essentials technical controls cover much of Article 32. Card data adds PCI DSS, and financial services firms often pair GDPR with FCA and DORA requirements.
The technical side draws on identity and access management to limit who sees personal data, endpoint management to protect it on devices, and user awareness training for the human side. Penetration testing, risk management and security posture reviews produce Article 32 evidence, and our compliance support team packages it for the ICO, auditors and customer questionnaires.
GDPR matters in every sector, and we see it most in financial services, insurance, retail, real estate and not-for-profit organisations. For a wider view of how regulations fit together, see our end-to-end compliance programme.
Frequently asked questions
Show your data protection working
Tell us what personal data you hold and where you think the gaps are. You get a clear view of what the ICO would expect to see, and a prioritised plan to get there.