Expertise · Privacy Law
Data Protection Law for Businesses and Organisations.
Personal data is an indispensable part of virtually every business, from staff records and customer data to the data received via your website. This entails certain responsibilities: correctly identifying your role under the GDPR, ensuring your website’s privacy notice is accurate, and entering into a data processing agreement with data processors that sets out the appropriate terms. It is also important to prevent and handle data breaches promptly and correctly using the right internal protocols, and to ensure that requests from data subjects are assessed correctly. We support businesses with these and other data protection issues, ranging from day-to-day operations to the broader structure of your privacy policy. Our advice is tailored to the nature, scale and risks of your business, so that you always know exactly what practical steps are required.
How we can help you
Documents and policy
- Privacy notices and cookie statements
- (Sub-)processing agreements and data processing clauses in general terms and conditions
- Internal privacy policy
- Retention periods and retention policy
- Authorisation and access policy
- DPIA reports and documentation
Data subjects and incidents
- Rights of data subjects (access, correction, erasure and restriction)
- Handling data breaches and reporting obligations
- Contacting the Dutch Data Protection Authority
- Requests from employees and customers
- Disputes concerning data processing
- Assessment of lawful and unlawful processing
Compliance and governance
- GDPR compliance and privacy baseline assessments
- Advice and audits on privacy compliance
- Setting up privacy governance
- Establishing and maintaining a record of processing activities
- Privacy by design and privacy by default
- Advice on appointing a Data Protection Officer (DPO)
- Guidance on new systems, apps or web forms
- Advice on DPIA obligations
- Strategic advice on data-driven working and risks
Recent publications
Privacy Law
Point of contact
Hella Vercammen LL.M.
As a privacy lawyer at The Legal Company, Bente supports a wide range of businesses that regularly face privacy law questions.
Point of contact
Bente Brouwer LL.M.
As a privacy lawyer at The Legal Company, Bente supports a wide range of businesses that regularly face privacy law questions.