GDPR Compliance for Digital Products
Align product, data flows, and vendor ecosystem with European data-protection requirements — without derailing delivery
Signals It’s Time to Act
Enterprise customer requests a DPA, SCCs, or RoPA evidence
New feature involves tracking, profiling, or model fine-tuning with user data
Expansion into the EU/EEA or onboarding EU customers
Third-party tools added (payments, CDP, marketing, LLM APIs)
Security incident, regulator inquiry, or upcoming audit
How the Work Gets Done
A clear, repeatable workflow aligns product, legal, and security—moving from mapping data to closing gaps and producing audit-ready evidence.
Discovery
Systems, data categories, purposes, vendors, and transfers are mapped.
Gap & Risk Map
Prioritized findings across lawful basis, transparency, data minimization, security, and transfer risk.
Remediation Sprint
Templates, controls, and product changes implemented, CMP and DSR flows configured.
Evidence Pack
We act as your point of contact with regulatory bodies to ensure compliance.
Built for Product, Legal & Security
Cross-functional by design, aligning GDPR controls and documentation with day-to-day workflows in product, legal/privacy, and security. Artifacts map to real systems and data flows, making ownership clear and evidence easy to review.
Engineering
Privacy-by-design acceptance criteria, backlog items for consent/UI, minimization and retention tasks, change-log triggers for RoPA/DPIA updates.
Legal and Security
Controller/processor RoPA, DPIA/LIA decision records, lawful-basis matrix, notices & in-product disclosures, vendor DPAs/SCCs/TIAs, transfer register.
Technical and Organizational Measures
Control Mapping to Real Systems
GDPR TOMs are mapped to concrete configurations across cloud, apps, endpoints, and vendors. A control register links each requirement to owners, tickets, and audit evidence for fast review.
Logging, Encryption, Access
Centralized audit logging with retention, encryption in transit and at rest with key rotation, role-based access, least-privilege, and MFA. Settings are documented so controls are testable and defensible.
Incident Response Runbooks
Step-by-step playbooks for detection, triage, containment, forensics, and communication — covering 72-hour notification timelines, decision trees, roles (RACI), and message templates.
Timelines and Effort
Implementation speed depends on product scope, data sensitivity, vendor footprint, and international transfers. The ranges below help teams plan capacity and stakeholder time for GDPR deliverables — RoPA, DPIA/LIA records, privacy notices, consent governance, DSR workflows, vendor/transfer registers, and retention controls.
Fast-Track
2–4 weeks for single-product SaaS with limited vendors.
Standard Program
4–8 weeks for multi-product or AI pipelines with vendors and transfers.
Continuous Review
Quarterly refresh for RoPA, vendors, and policy updates.
DPO-as-a-Service
On-call data protection leadership for governance cadence, DPIA oversight, and regulator communications.
Move from “paperwork risk” to product-ready compliance
Gain clarity on scope, close gaps quickly, and maintain proof of compliance.
FAQs
Find answers to common GDPR questions around lawful basis, DPIAs, and data subject rights.
Any organization serving people in the European Economic Area or monitoring their behavior (e.g., analytics, ads, geolocation) falls in scope — regardless of where engineering or headquarters sit.
Any information that can identify a person directly or indirectly: names, emails, device IDs, cookie IDs, IPs, location, behavioral or financial data, and more.
Common options are consent, contract, legal obligation, vital interests, public task, and legitimate interests. When relying on legitimate interests, document a three-part Legitimate Interests Assessment (purpose, necessity, balancing).
Before launching processing that is likely high-risk to individuals — such as large-scale profiling, large-scale use of sensitive categories, or systematic monitoring of public areas.
If offering goods/services to people in the EU/EEA or monitoring their behavior without an EU establishment, appoint a local representative to serve as the contact point for regulators and individuals.
For public authorities, for organizations whose core activities involve large-scale monitoring, or for large-scale processing of special categories/criminal-offense data.
Use approved mechanisms such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses or an adequacy decision (e.g., the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework). For SCCs, complete and document a transfer-impact assessment. Recent court decisions have upheld the EU-U.S. framework, adding stability.
Respond without undue delay and within one month; a two-month extension is possible for complexity or volume, with notice. No fees except for manifestly unfounded or excessive requests.
Use approved mechanisms such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses or an adequacy decision (e.g., the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework). For SCCs, complete and document a transfer-impact assessment. Recent court decisions have upheld the EU-U.S. framework, adding stability.
Notify the competent supervisory authority without undue delay and—where feasible—within 72 hours of awareness, unless the breach is unlikely to risk individuals’ rights and freedoms. Notify affected individuals without undue delay where risk is high.
Use a data-processing agreement that limits processing to documented instructions, requires equivalent safeguards for any sub-processors, and allows audits/cooperation. Align SCCs when transfers occur.