Outsourced DPO services 

A Data Protection Officer (DPO) is the person responsible for:

1. Acting as the liaison between the company, the data subjects and regulatory bodies including the ICO

2. Identifying and ensuring the delivery of training and awareness programmes for employees and contractors

3. Complying with article 30 of GDPR

4. Conducting regular audits to ensure compliance is maintained and ensuring policies and procedures are regularly reviewed and updated where required

5. Overseeing/supervising Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)

6. Managing a data breach

7. Keeping up to date with the latest data privacy legislation and rulings by the EDPB and Supervisory Authorities

8. Having an in-depth understanding of GDPR as well as information technology and data security

9. Avoiding a conflict of interest

10. Reporting to highest levels of management and autonomy

Find out more about what a DPO does in this article.

The GDPR dictates that you must appoint a DPO if you are a public authority or body, or if you carry out certain types of processing activities such as regular and systematic monitoring of individuals, or large-scale processing of sensitive data. Although other organisations are not legally required to have a DPO, the ICO recommends every organisation appoints a DPO to comply with the GDPR, manage data protection and avoid fines

We can include GDPR implementation as part of any of our outsourced DPO service packages. This usually involves extra time allocation while the GDPR implementation is being carried out. Once complete you can easily scale back DPO contact hours depending on the needs of your business.

Our data protection consultants can provide support and advice on how to handle data subject access requests, guiding you on what to so when you receive one as part of your compliance action plan.

Outsourcing data protection to a qualified data protection consultant is more cost-effective than an internal hire, as you only pay for the hours you need. Using a Data Protection Officer as a service can also help you to access a team of certified GDPR practitioners, data protection professionals and technical experts rather than relying on one employee to provide all the required expertise.

Any organisation that processes personal data must comply with the GDPR. “Processing” is a broad term that covers just about anything you can do with data: collection, storage, transmission, analysis, etc. “Personal data” is any information that relates to a person, such as names, email addresses, IP addresses, eye colour, political affiliation, and so on.<

You have the option to add more hours to an ongoing contract as and when you need them for large policy or procedure reviews, data breach support or any other circumstance where you need more dedicated DPO time.

UK GDPR and EU GDPR apply to all companies depending on your location, although some parts of the legislation may not be relevant for your business, such as the processing of children’s data and profiling of individuals. At Bulletproof, out seasoned data protection consultant work across many public and private sectors, and have expertise in a variety of industries.