Data Protection Legal Issues & Risks

When your business creates, obtains or uses any personal data relating to individuals you are bound by data protection legislation.

Clients tend to instruct us to help based on data related legal compliance risks but also where their business is growing towards a point where they may require funding or the shareholders are contemplating a sale. Investors, lenders or purchasers will look closely at data compliance issues.

What we do

Common instructions and advice include :-

• Drafting of privacy policies;

• Reviewing and analysing contracts  with suppliers or customers including data related legal issues and compliance

• Advising employers on subject access requests submitted by employees and how to deal with them;

• Data protection audits and reviews for compliance and governance;

• Pre-sale, pre-exit or pre-funding services - a full review and report on the data that the business holds and recommendations from that;

• Internal policies for use with a business’s staff and consultants, to set out the requirements under the law;

• Policies and procedures to let third parties know how your business uses data;

• Data processing and data sharing agreements;

• Advice in relation to compliance on the transfer of data outside of the UK.

Who we work with

We work with SMEs and owner managed businesses around the country, with a particular focus on established businesses with turnover of between £1 million to £50 million.