SMALL BUSINESS
GDPR Data Protection for Small Business
Every business needs data to operate. Small businesses that process data, including personal data, need to understand GDPR data protection implications. Ensure your small business adheres to GDPR data protection best practices.

Small businesses that process personal data need to make sure their practices are compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
GDPR compliance information, out in the wild, can be quite complex. While some small businesses enjoy certain exemptions under the GDPR, these are very small exemptions. Within your business, you are still required to comply with almost all personal data processing compliance requirements under the GDPR. Searching GDPR, personal data, or other data compliance related phrases (like ‘GDPR small business’ on Google) can lead you down a very stressful rabbit-hole, where complex legal terms can seem quite terrifying.
To help you comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we have compiled this resource page. It will help you to initiate and evolve your small business GDPR compliance programme.
GDPR compliance in your everyday data processing is achievable. We are here to help you, as you continue your processing of personal data in a compliant way. Keep an eye out for our handy GDPR guides to help you deal with incidences and data breaches within the mandated time frames, and data subject rights requests within the required 30 days (one month).
GDPR Small Business Information and Advice
Please note that these data protection resources do not constitute legal advice and are not a substitute for such. We welcome interaction and data related enquiries from all businesses. Please feel free to share this information with your compliance, security, privacy or data protection officer.
Audit Frameworks and Your Business
The audit frameworks your business needs to know about
The (Undiscovered) LinkedIn Data Protection and Privacy Champion with Louise Bunyan of SmartFox
Today on The GDPR Series podcast, we have a bit of a different guest. My challenge to digital marketing consultant and LinkedIn trainer, Louise Bunyan of SmartFox, was to join me in discussing data protection even though she kept insisting it wasn’t really in her sphere of influence, so to speak.
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A Guide on How to Process Health Data in times of Disease Outbreak
A cover note for small business and compliance managers to assist with GDPR data protection compliance requirements and steps involved in managing data processing activities based on a legal obligation involving special categories of data in times of disease outbreak on a large scale where public health is of concern.
GDPR and Your Email Marketing Strategy
The GDPR in conjunction with other law provides guidelines and a legal framework for the way your business needs to manage, secure, and share personal data. Naturally, that affects the way you market too. Here’s how the GDPR framework affects your email marketing strategy.
GDPR, Children’s Data and Moving from Paper to Digital with Steph McSherry of Kinderama
Today on The GDPR Series podcast, our focus is straight business talk, children’s data and moving from paper to digital! I chat with a creative business owner who deals with most of her data protection compliance tasks herself. Besides helping me translate data protection compliance language into plain speak, she shares with us how to just get on and do what needs doing. This business owner writes her own policies and does her own vendor risk assessments! Listen to find out more.
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Ransomware, GDPR Data Protection and Cyber Security with Liam Lynch
Today on The GDPR Series podcast, our focus is ransomware – cyber security AND data protection! I chat with a well-known on the training circuit and expert cyber guy about the current ransomware landscape and how he got into data protection work. Heads up: he’ll be one of our Serity support consultants!
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GDPR Data Protection and Privacy Compliant Marketing with Finola Howard
Today on The GDPR Series podcast, our focus is data protection and privacy compliant marketing. I chat with an expert marketing strategist about positive, permission-based marketing and how the personal data of your customer is a gift from them to you.
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Your Data Compliance Consultant
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GDPR 3 Day Audit Package – Consultant Help
Do you want to fast-track your GDPR compliance? For only €1800 plus VAT –
- Interview workshops over half a day
- Full audit with report
- Action plan for the next 12 months
- Data Protection Policy, Data Protection and Privacy Notice, Data Retention Policy and Security Policies.
- Final meeting to report back with one hour awareness training and Q&A with staff