DPIA Support: Data Protection Impact Assessments
Get practical support with DPIA data protection, helping you assess privacy risks, consider appropriate safeguards and build data protection into new or changing processing activities.
DPIA Data Protection Support
DPIA data protection work helps organisations identify and address privacy risks before or as significant processing activities are introduced. We help establish whether a DPIA is appropriate, understand the processing involved and structure the assessment around the risks to individuals. We first understand the proposed processing, its purpose, scope and context before identifying relevant privacy risks.
Our DPIA data protection approach considers potential impacts on individuals, existing safeguards and appropriate mitigation before findings are documented and implemented. This helps project teams make informed decisions before processing begins or changes significantly, while creating a documented basis for reviewing safeguards over time.
How our DPIA support works
A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) identifies, analyses and minimises the data protection risks of processing personal data. It is especially important where processing is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals.
Privacy Impact Assessment
A privacy impact assessment should examine the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing, identify potential impacts and consider measures for reducing risks. We provide practical support to help organisations produce assessments that inform real decisions rather than becoming a paperwork exercise.
Our DPIA data protection support can include DPIA screening, assessing whether a DPIA is required, identifying processing risks, conducting a privacy impact assessment, considering safeguards, documenting outcomes and reviewing assessments when processing changes.
Build Data Protection into New Projects
DPIAs can support data protection by design when new systems, technologies, products or processes are being developed. We help identify proportionate safeguards and integrate privacy considerations into project planning, implementation and ongoing review.
Assessing High-Risk Processing
Our DPIA support is suitable for organisations introducing or significantly changing processing activities where privacy risks need to be assessed, documented and addressed.
Embedding Privacy by Design
We make DPIA data protection practical and focused on the processing involved. Rather than treating a privacy impact assessment as a standalone document, we help organisations identify meaningful risks and build appropriate safeguards into projects.
DPIAs in practice
Our team has completed DPIAs for a global construction company, for new systems at an Irish sports retailer, and for an email marketing platform introducing tracking pixels, where the assessment also covered transfers of data from the EEA to the USA.
Read more →DPIA FAQs
A DPIA in data protection is a structured assessment used to identify and address privacy risks associated with certain processing activities.
A privacy impact assessment examines processing, potential impacts and safeguards to help an organisation address privacy risks.
The privacy impact assessment purpose is to identify potential risks to individuals and determine appropriate measures to reduce or manage those risks.
Why organisations choose us
Senior expertise
You work directly with an experienced data protection consultant, not a junior team. The person who scopes your project is the person who delivers it.
Clear communication
We explain what the law requires, what it means for you and what to do next, in plain English.
Practical, proportionate advice
We focus on what matters for your organisation: risk-based recommendations and documents your team will actually use.
Tailored to your organisation
We shape our work around your size, sector, systems and appetite for risk.
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