In today’s data-driven landscape, organizations face growing expectations and legal requirements to protect personal information. We offer comprehensive Data Protection & Privacy services to safeguard your business and maintain customer trust while ensuring full compliance with regulations like GDPR. Our team helps you establish robust privacy practices that align with your business goals and meet regulatory standards. We cover the full privacy spectrum, from GDPR program implementation and data governance to ongoing privacy operations, privacy by design, and breach response, so you can operate with confidence. Below are the key areas of our Data Protection & Privacy offerings.
GDPR Program Support & Implementation
We design and execute GDPR compliance programs tailored to your organization. This begins with a thorough assessment of your current data protection posture to identify gaps and risks. Based on this analysis, we develop a clear remediation roadmap with prioritized activities and realistic timelines, ensuring focus on the most critical compliance gaps first.
Our experts help establish all the foundational elements of a privacy program, from drafting privacy policies and procedures to creating records of processing activities (GDPR Article 30 registers) and other required documentation. We assist in defining roles and responsibilities (including Data Protection Officer considerations) and securing management support, so your GDPR initiative is well-governed and resourced from the start.
Ongoing Privacy Operations
Data protection is not a one-time project – we provide ongoing support to maintain and improve your privacy program. This includes serving as or supporting your Data Protection Officer (DPO) to oversee daily privacy operations, monitor compliance, and keep policies and procedures up to date. We implement structured privacy governance (e.g. annual compliance plans) to ensure continuous control, review, and improvement. Regular check-ins and reports to leadership keep everyone informed of the privacy program status.
Our team helps manage the operational aspects of data protection so nothing falls through the cracks. We can maintain records of processing activities, administrate data subject requests (access, deletion, rectification), and oversee risk management where applicable. We also coordinate periodic training and awareness programs to keep your staff educated on privacy practices, making data protection an integral part of your company culture. Additionally, we assist in vetting and monitoring third-party processors – reviewing supplier contracts and data processing agreements to ensure your partners uphold the same privacy standards.
Data Governance & Lifecycle Management
Understanding your data is key to protecting it. We help you create a comprehensive inventory of personal data in your systems – mapping what data you have, where it resides, and how it flows between processes. By establishing clear data governance processes, including data classification and ownership, we ensure personal data is managed consistently and lawfully throughout its lifecycle. These practices give you visibility into your information assets and support compliance efforts like fulfilling data subject rights and reporting obligations.
Our services cover the full data lifecycle, from collection to deletion. We develop and implement retention policies that define how long personal data should be kept and when it must be disposed of. To enforce these policies, we introduce procedures and technical measures for secure archiving and deletion (so data is not kept longer than necessary). This includes setting up routines for regular data clean-up and ensuring that backups and archives are managed in compliance with GDPR. By applying data minimization and timely deletion of data, you reduce risk and storage costs while meeting regulatory requirements. Our data governance approach not only keeps you compliant, but also improves data quality and integrity – so you can trust that the information you retain is accurate, relevant, and well-protected.
Privacy by Design & Technology Integration
We integrate Privacy by Design principles into your product development and IT projects from the outset. Our consultants work with your teams to ensure that any new system, application, or process is built with data protection in mind. Concretely, this means we identify potential privacy risks early and specify controls to mitigate them – for example, ensuring that applications only collect necessary data, that sensitive information is encrypted, and that access to personal data is restricted on a need-to-know basis. We establish review checkpoints (such as privacy impact assessments in project workflows or a privacy review board) so that privacy considerations are addressed before new initiatives go live. By weaving privacy into design and procurement processes, we prevent issues and costly rework down the line.
For projects or processes that involve higher-risk personal data uses, we conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) to evaluate and address those risks. Our team guides you through DPIAs – from analyzing how data is used to recommending safeguards – ensuring you meet GDPR requirements and industry best practices when deploying new technologies. We also advise on and help implement privacy-enhancing technologies, such as anonymization/pseudonymization techniques, encryption solutions, and consent management tools. Through these measures, privacy and security are built into your IT environment by default, supporting compliance and boosting customer confidence in your digital services.
Breach Preparedness & Accountability
Being prepared for a data breach is a crucial part of privacy protection. We help you develop and refine incident response plans specifically for personal data breaches, often in coordination with your broader IT security incident plans. This includes defining clear procedures to detect and assess potential data breaches, containment steps to minimize damage, and communication protocols to notify the proper authorities and affected individuals when required. GDPR’s 72-hour breach notification rule is strictly accounted for in our plans – we ensure you know how to gather the necessary information quickly and report incidents to regulators within the required timeframe. Through simulations and tabletop exercises, we can test your breach response process so that your team is ready to act decisively and calmly in the event of a real incident.
We instill a strong sense of accountability in your privacy program, helping you document and provide evidence of compliance in everything you do. Our consultants establish governance practices to record decisions and actions related to data protection – aligning with GDPR’s accountability principle that requires organizations to prove their compliance efforts. We ensure all necessary documentation is in place and maintained, from processing activity records and consent logs to privacy policies, risk assessments, and training records. If regulators or auditors come knocking, you will have a well-organized trail of how you manage data protection. We also perform periodic compliance audits and gap assessments to verify that controls are working as intended and to recommend improvements. By continuously monitoring and enhancing your privacy measures, we help you not only meet legal requirements but also build trust with customers and partners through transparency and diligence.
With Kristensson i Skåne AB as your data protection partner, you gain a trustworthy advisor committed to safeguarding personal data and supporting your compliance journey. Our senior privacy specialists bring extensive experience across various industries, ensuring that our solutions are both pragmatic and aligned with best practices. We tailor our services to your unique needs – whether you are establishing a privacy program from scratch or refining mature processes – and always aim to empower your organization to confidently protect sensitive information. Let us help you turn data privacy into a business strength. Contact us today to discuss how our Data Protection & Privacy services can support your organization’s success.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between a controller and a processor?
The controller decides the purposes and means of processing. A processor processes personal data on behalf of the controller and should be governed by a data processing agreement.
When do we need a lawful basis?
All processing of personal data requires a lawful basis under GDPR. The organisation must also be able to demonstrate purpose limitation, proportionality, transparency and compliance with the fundamental principles.
When is a DPIA needed?
A DPIA is needed when processing is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals. Examples may include sensitive data, large-scale monitoring or new technology with significant impact.
How does data protection relate to information security?
Data protection requires appropriate technical and organisational security measures. Information security helps protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, incorrect alteration and prohibited use.
How can we improve GDPR work in practice?
Start with records of processing activities, clear roles, lawful bases, processor agreements, procedures for data subject rights, incident handling and regular follow-up of risks and controls.
Related reference case: A data protection maturity program – see our reference cases.
Selected official sources: European Commission: EU data protection legal framework; EUR-Lex: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR); IMY: The GDPR fundamental principles.