GDPR for Startups and Scaleups: A Practical Guide

This book presents a step-by-step guide on how to build an effective GDPR compliance programme for your business and covers the crucial elements that every business needs to address. With particular focus on startups and scaleups, experienced Privacy Counsel and Director of Privacy, Ben Martin walks the reader through the various legal requirements that early-stage businesses need to comply with, and how these will develop through their growth phase.

Utilising real-life scenarios and worked examples to navigate the complex legal landscape of GDPR compliance, this handy and practical guide sets out key concepts relating to data protection and draws on a number of expert industry and legal perspectives. Martin adeptly engages with the day-to-day practicalities of implementing a business-centric data protection compliance programme and highlights how good data protection can be used by businesses to gain a competitive advantage.

Key Features:

• Real-life examples
• Business-focussed
• An experience-based approach
• Accessible for the non-specialist
• Insight from industry and legal experts
• Clear summaries and To-do lists in each chapter

An indispensable resource for startups or scaleups in the UK or elsewhere, this book is for entrepreneurs, business owners, compliance officers and in-house counsel looking to better understand GDPR requirements and how those interact with business needs.