Trace’s Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) as a service delivers flexible, efficient and impartial senior expertise to lead your data protection and help you implement your Privacy by Design framework. Your CPO will be your executive-level guide for your privacy programme, providing strategic, risked-based expertise to implement your plans and mature your compliance posture .
Get expert leadership for your privacy programme
What does a Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) do?
Our Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) will act as your dedicated senior consultant who will lead your organisation's personal data and privacy programme, helping you adopt and apply Privacy by Design and operationalise compliance. Trace®’s CPO services can assist you whether you have already created your privacy framework, are looking to refresh your approach, or need interim support.
Benefits of CPO Services
Time-saving
With seasoned professionals dedicated to your data protection compliance and privacy programme, you’ll benefit from our experience and domain level focus.
Effective auditing
Our dedicated CPO expert conducts in-depth data privacy audits for your company to ensure data protection compliance and risk-based gap analysis.
Expert consultation
Our professionals bring years of experience and deep expertise to offer a breadth of strategic data compliance services to clients in various sectors.
Why Trace for CPO services?
We’ll help you build your internal privacy and compliance capability and operationalise your compliance by our senior, expert privacy professionals.
We'll assist you in creating or updating a programme and strategy for your Privacy and Data Protection.
We are seasoned communicators who can present to your board or communicate to your project.
What Team Trace Offer
Your Privacy strategy and roadmap for secure, well governed sensitive data and embedded compliance.
Executive coaching entails knowledge transfer from your virtual CPO in order to discuss best practices, competencies, and provide you with the correct questions to ask of your staff.
Attending major stakeholder, investor, client, or board meetings as the senior leadership team's and company's primary advocate for privacy and data security.
We offer expert implementations and privacy platform management for Trace's app, OneTrust or BigID.
Cost-effective chief privacy officer services to help you save money on external legal expenses while also complying with the most recent privacy legislation.
Work with an experienced CPO professional
Sorcha Lorimer | Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) | Trace Founder
A qualified privacy professional with over a decade of experience in data leadership, including a Fortune 500 company where she was Global Head of. She has worked on global IT, governance, privacy, data strategy and transformation programmes across multiple industries.
What our clients say
“...Very knowledgeable and extremely helpful in guiding us through the privacy minefield...”
“Made the complex world of GDPR easier to understand and provided clear insight.”
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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We offer privacy, data protection and governance professional services. Our consultancy can be one-off project based or we can offer ongoing support services. We can flex to our clients needs. See our services brochure for our complete range of services.
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We start with a consultancy call, to get to know your key challenges and goals better, this is essential as compliance needs to align with your overall direction for most value. We then provide you with a free, no obligation proposal tailored to your need. If you wish to proceed we then put an agreed Statement of Work (SoW) in place with all of your services and pricing transparent. We then project manage the process and engagement from start to finish for you, with your support on the discovery stage.
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We offer our Trace® app as a managed application for our clients (and clients can also use it directly and have access via a Team account). Using the Trace® app alongside consultancy works brilliantly, as getting data protection and governance right requires the right process, people and tech: the platform builds evergreen processes and drives collaboration, while consultants provide point support, toolkits, coaching and expert advice. We also partner with OneTrust and BigID for enterprises using data governance tools.