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GDPR and international data laws
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Data protection - GDPR and international data laws
We advise myriad clients on Data, the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and various international data laws.
We offer a complete solution to the challenges of data regulation, both within the UK and internationally, across governance and structure, process, policy and technology. We also offer training in data for our clients.
Together, we can ensure your business is data-compliant and kept up to speed with any changing requirements in this rapidly changing area.
How our lawyers can advise you
As the value and exploitation of data increases, so does the responsibility for managing and protecting it - particularly as regulators and consumers become more attentive about how that data is processed.
Our experienced and dedicated team of lawyers can help you comply with this complex and often technical area of law, covering:
- advisory
- breach management
- data sharing
- requests for information
- regulatory
- compensation claims
We have a team of lawyers with considerable experience of data protection and freedom of information related matters across a range of sectors including:
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How our team will work with you
We offer a range of products and services – including free guides, downloadable resources and expert support - to ensure you comply.
The benefit of our solution is that we can cover legal, compliance, audit and technology requirements, avoiding duplication and creating time and process efficiencies. You can be confident that our advice will mean you’re completely data-compliant.
Our team can:
- carry out data audits and use the information to advise on data remediation programmes
- draft data -related documents including privacy notices and policies
- consider your working practices to see how data laws (of which the UK GDPR is only one!) may apply
- advise on digital and non-digital marketing regulation and compliance
- support you on a long term basis to ensure your business remains data compliant and that build data regulation into your Business As Usual (BAU)
- advise on compensation claims and data breach response
We will cut through the data jargon, explaining how data law actually operates in practice and how it applies to your business. All advice is individually tailored to you and your business.
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Our clients
Our clients include all types of private and public sector businesses. We provide advice to clients in a variety of sectors from large yacht builders to the Royal College of Surgeons to global professional consultancies to professional service firms.
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Our experience
- Advising the Government of the British Virgin Islands on their own data laws and on various compliance regimes of the government.
- Advising a famous film studio on its GDPR requirements.
- Advising a leading comparison site on a range of GDPR compliance issues, training, policies and processes.
- Advising a major online digital healthcare provider to provide advice in respect of data protection concerns relating to the recording of online patient consultations.
- Advising a number of medical businesses on the consequences of a cyber attack on the supplier of their practice management system.
- Providing urgent advice to a large plc client following a phishing attack on one of its divisions, including breach notification to the ICO and data subjects.
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FAQs
How can you support us with GDPR training?
We can provide training on the GDPR requirements, full or partial data audit and validation programmes, controller/processor analyses, assessment and advice on bases of processing, and full initial remediation and business as usual (BAU) programmes.
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Case studies
We have advised the Government of the British Virgin Islands on their own data laws and on various compliance regimes of the government
- We have advised a famous film studio on its’ GDPR requirements
- We have advised a leading comparison site on a range of GDPR compliance issues, training, policies and processes
- We have advised a major online digital healthcare provider to provide advice in respect of data protection concerns relating to the recording of online patient consultations
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