GDPR & Data Privacy Counsel for Tech

For data-driven and technology companies, the GDPR isn’t a one-time box to tick — it’s a standing obligation that touches your product, your contracts, and the way you handle every user. VoltLegal helps you meet it properly and pragmatically: a privacy programme that satisfies regulators and customers without turning every product decision into a legal negotiation.

We work the way good privacy counsel should — starting from how your product actually collects and uses data, then building the documentation, contracts, and processes around that reality rather than around a generic template.

What we do

Data mapping and records — understanding what personal data you hold, where it flows, and on what legal basis, and producing the records of processing (RoPA) the GDPR expects.
Privacy notices and policies — clear, accurate external notices and the internal policies that back them up.
Data processing agreements — controller–processor and processor–sub-processor DPAs, and getting the data terms right in your customer and vendor contracts.
International transfers — standard contractual clauses, transfer impact assessments, and a defensible approach to moving data outside the EEA.
DPIAs — data protection impact assessments for higher-risk processing, including profiling and automated decision-making.
Data subject rights — workable processes for access, deletion, and other requests, so your team can respond on time.
Breach response — assessment, notification decisions, and documentation when something goes wrong.
Consent and cookies — lawful consent mechanics, cookie banners, and tracking that stands up to scrutiny.
DPO and ongoing support — acting as, or supporting, your data protection function on a continuing basis.

International data transfers

Few technology companies keep all their data inside the EEA — there’s a US cloud provider, an analytics tool, a support team abroad. Each of those is an international transfer that has to be justified. We help you identify the transfers you’re actually making, put the right mechanism in place (typically standard contractual clauses supported by a transfer impact assessment), and document the decision so it holds up if questioned.

Privacy by design, in the product

The most expensive privacy problems are the ones built into the product. We work with founders and engineering teams to bake privacy in early — minimising the data you collect, setting sensible retention, getting the legal basis right before launch, and handling consent and transparency in the interface itself. Done at the design stage, this is cheap; done after a complaint, it’s not.

GDPR and the AI Act, together

If you build or deploy AI, your data-protection and AI obligations are deeply intertwined — training data, automated decisions, and transparency duties all sit across both regimes. We handle them as a single programme, so your AI Act compliance and your privacy work reinforce each other instead of contradicting each other.

Who we help

We work with SaaS and software companies, AI and analytics products, marketplaces and platforms, and crypto and fintech businesses with significant customer-data footprints — anyone for whom personal data is central to the product and a real source of regulatory risk.

Common questions

Does the GDPR apply to us if we’re not in the EU?

It can. If you offer goods or services to people in the EU, or monitor their behaviour, you may be in scope wherever you’re based. We help non-EU companies assess this and put the right footing in place, including an EU representative where one is required.

We’re early-stage — is this premature?

The opposite. Getting your data flows, legal bases, and notices right while the product is still small is far cheaper than retrofitting compliance once you’ve scaled and the data has spread.

Can you handle a specific issue, like a DPA or a data breach?

Yes. We take on discrete tasks — negotiating a DPA, running a DPIA, advising on a breach — as readily as we run an ongoing privacy programme.

Want a privacy programme that fits how your product really works? Book a free consultation or get in touch to talk it through.