YOU'RE EXPANDING YOUR MARKET and YOUR compliance PROGRAM NEEDS TO KEEP UP
If your business handles personal data from EU residents, GDPR applies to you regardless of where your company is based. We help you build a program that's defensible, practical, and built around how your product actually works.
What is GDPR and does it apply to you?
The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is a European Union law that governs how organizations collect, store, process, and transfer the personal data of EU residents. It applies regardless of where your company is based. If you handle data from people in the EU, GDPR applies to you.
For most SaaS founders, GDPR becomes relevant when you start selling to European customers, onboard users in EU countries, or sign contracts with enterprise clients who require evidence of a compliant data program before signing.
Non-compliance carries real consequences. Fines can reach up to 4% of global annual revenue or 20 million euros, whichever is higher. But for most companies, the more immediate risk is losing deals with customers who require evidence of a compliant program before they'll sign.
What does GDPR compliance involve?
GDPR is not a certification you earn from a third party. It is a legal framework with specific requirements your program needs to address. The core areas include:
Lawful basis for processing. You need to understand and document why you are collecting each type of personal data and what legal basis allows you to process it.
Privacy notices and consent. Your users need to know what data you collect, how you use it, and what rights they have. This needs to be clear, accessible, and accurate.
Data subject rights. GDPR gives individuals rights over their data, including the right to access, correct, delete, and port their information. Your program needs to be able to honor those requests.
Data processing agreements. If you share personal data with third-party vendors or processors, you need documented agreements in place that meet GDPR requirements.
Data breach response. GDPR requires you to notify the relevant supervisory authority within 72 hours of becoming aware of a qualifying breach. Having a response process in place before something happens is not optional.
Building a compliant program means addressing all of these areas in a way that reflects how your product actually processes data, not a generic policy template copied from another company.
What working with Anchorpoint looks like
Every GDPR engagement starts with understanding your product, your data flows, and where you are in the process. We map what personal data you collect, how it moves through your systems and to your vendors, and where your current practices fall short of what GDPR requires.
From there we help you build a program that actually fits your business. That means the right privacy notices, documented lawful bases, data processing agreements with your vendors, and internal processes your team can actually follow and maintain.
You will understand what you have, why it matters, and how to respond if a customer, regulator, or enterprise legal team ever asks.
You may already have a compliance platform in place or be wondering whether you need one. We help you work through that decision and can support you either way, with or without a platform.
The Anchorpoint Difference
Per-project pricing.
Former auditors, not generalist consultants.
You work with the founders.
We know what a defensible GDPR program looks like from the inside. We know where companies cut corners, what actually holds up under scrutiny, and how to build something that works for a lean team without overengineering it. That's what you're hiring when you work with Anchorpoint.