Privacy Audits for Data Protection Compliance
What is a privacy audit?
Our privacy audits help you identify compliance gaps, reduce regulatory risk, and strengthen accountability across your organisation and supply chain with clear reporting to support internal governance and regulator expectations.
- Identify privacy compliance gaps.
- Validate supplier handling of data.
- Evidence compliance decisions with clear audit records.
- Reduce legal and reputational risk.
Audit services overview
Supporting our clients procurement and compliance teams in assessing the risks posed to our clients from their supply chain.
Third-party questionnaires are not always enough to understand how data is truly handled by suppliers. We’ll grade your suppliers and deliver an audit programme ensuring they adhere to the terms of the contract, with data protection regulations and with other relevant codes of conduct or law. This could include questionnaire management all the way through to full on-site audits. While the audit focuses on data protection and information security, we can factor in other compliance areas, including ESG and health and safety.
TOMs (technical and organisational measures) refer to the security measures, policies and procedures implemented by an organisation to safeguard personal data. Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), there are specific requirements for these controls, which our audit will evaluate your organisation against.
Ensure your CCTV use is compliant with UK data protection law and the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice 2013. Our auditor will review your CCTV use (including an on-site visit) and compare it to the regulation to give you an accurate picture of compliance.
This service is for organisations that sell personal data to third parties. Our audit ensures the sold data is processed in line with the contract, such as with the consent the data subject gave. It also ensures your customers comply with your contract and don’t owe additional royalties.
We’ll carry out a due diligence assessment on the company your organisation is buying data from to ensure the company is reputable, the data has been collected and processed in accordance with relevant legislation and that the data is fit for purpose for the organisation to use.
We help industry associations or membership organisations ensure their members adhere to a code of conduct or set of rules as dictated by the association.
FAQs
Usually, we need 1–3 days of audit time, with report writing separately.
A GDPR gap analysis assesses compliance with the GDPR. A privacy audit focuses on company policies, codes of conduct, and relevant industry and membership rules. The scope is therefore definable by the organisation.
It depends on the processes involved and should be part of a risk-based assessment. Standard practice would involve auditing higher-risk suppliers/clients on an annual basis.
The audit can be as focused or as general as needed, as long as the requirements are clearly articulated to allow compliance with them to be checked.
This depends on the nature of the audit but can include system demos, process maps, policies and procedures, invoices, billing reports, system reports on data usage, information security certifications, and training records.
Yes, we can audit as many or as few suppliers as needed.
Yes, we’ll provide clear recommendations in our audit report and can work with clients to understand these and track their implementation as necessary.
Remote and on-site audits are available, in the UK or overseas if needed.
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