Data Protection Impact Assessment

Uncover Risks. Strengthen Trust. Fulfill Your Legal Duty

Is your data processing designed to protect what matters?

  • Proactively reduce privacy risks and avoid costly redesigns, delays, or legal exposure

  • Demonstrate accountability and regulatory compliance under GDPR Article 35

  • Build trust and transparency from the start with structured, defensible documentation

Turning Compliance into a Strategic Safeguard

A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) is a structured evaluation of how a specific data processing activity may affect individuals’ rights and freedoms. It examines whether the processing is necessary and proportionate, identifies potential risks, and ensures that appropriate safeguards are in place.

For organisations, a DPIA is more than a legal formality, it’s a practical tool to manage privacy risk, avoid costly missteps, and ensure that systems are not only compliant, but also aligned with business values and stakeholder expectations.

Our Approach

1

Discuss

Collaborative consultation to clarify objectives, define scope, processing context, and relevant stakeholders.

2

Analyse

Review of planned processing, data flows, legal basis, affected individuals, potential risks and consequences.

3

Assess

Identification and evaluation of privacy risks with and recommend technical and organisational safeguards.

4

Document

A GDPR-compliant DPIA report and guidance on future review to ensure the assessment remains current and defensible.

The Result: Confidence Through Clarity and Readiness

Targeted Risk Analysis

In-depth assessment of privacy risks tied to your specific system, data flows, and processing context

Actionable Risk Mitigation

Tailored measures that address both immediate gaps and long-term compliance risks and vulnerabilities

Compliance Documentation

Future-proof approach aligned with Article 35 GDPR to protect fundamental rights, manage risk, and support sustainable operations

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Any activity likely to result in high risk to individuals, such as profiling, tracking, large-scale processing, sensitive data use, or cross-border transfers

  • Yes. The report is structured to meet the expectations of supervisory authorities and includes the documentation necessary to demonstrate legal compliance and risk management.

  • IT security, data protection officers and operational leads involved in the design or management of the processing.

  • Ideally before a new project or system goes live, and always at the earliest design stage. Conducting a DPIA early ensures that risks are addressed proactively, rather than retrofitted after launch.

  • Risks should be mitigated through technical and organisational measures. If high risks remain that cannot be reduced, consultation with the supervisory authority may be required before proceeding.