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Independent data privacy and protection consultancy — helping organisations close compliance gaps, reduce risk, and build sustainable data governance frameworks aligned to GDPR, KVKK, and global privacy regulations.
WHY CONSULTANCY SERVICES?
As the variety and amount of personal data in IT systems increase, the risk of non-compliance with local and global regulations also increases. This may create serious legal, operational, financial, and reputational harm for organizations.
The basic administrative and technical expectations of such regulations can be summarized across seven core areas — each requiring deliberate policies, processes, and technical controls to satisfy regulatory obligations.
Non-compliance fines reach up to €20 million under GDPR
Compliance Coverage
Both GDPR and KVKK define a consistent set of administrative and technical obligations that organizations must address to demonstrate compliance.
Personal data must be processed on a lawful basis, in a fair manner, and in a way that is transparent to the data subject.
Organizations must obtain valid, informed, and freely given consent for personal data processing where required under applicable regulations.
Processes and mechanisms must be in place to fulfill data subject rights, including access, rectification, erasure, and portability.
Organizations must maintain up-to-date records of all data processing activities, including purpose, legal basis, data categories, and retention periods.
Designation of a qualified Data Processing Officer or Data Protection Officer where mandated by regulatory requirements.
Special categories of personal data require additional safeguards and explicit legal basis for processing under both GDPR and KVKK frameworks.
Data must not be kept longer than necessary for its original purpose, requiring clearly defined retention schedules and deletion processes.
GDPR & Local Privacy Laws
Plainex consultants have hands-on experience navigating the requirements of GDPR and the growing landscape of regional privacy laws — including KVKK (Turkey), PDPL (Saudi Arabia), CCPA (California), and others.
We help organisations understand exactly which regulations apply to their data processing activities, how obligations differ across jurisdictions, and how to build a unified compliance framework that satisfies multiple regulatory regimes simultaneously.
Data privacy obligations span every major global market
Our Engagement Approach
In order to prevent such risks, organizations must first understand their current situation and classify and control personal data effectively.
Whether customer, employee, or third-party data, organizations need to maintain a personal data inventory, establish retention and deletion policies, define access controls, and implement appropriate protection measures against cybersecurity threats.
Our risk-based GDPR/KVKK Gap Analysis services help your organization to:
Understand Compliance Risks
Assess your current compliance posture and identify regulatory gaps.
Identify Significant Impact
Prioritize deficiencies that pose the greatest legal, financial, operational, or reputational risks.
Implement Risk Management Controls
Receive a practical roadmap of technical, organizational, and governance measures to reduce compliance exposure.
HOW WE ASSESS RISK
In order to determine the impact and likelihood of a risk level, information gathered orally during meetings and additional information regarding the questions raised during those meetings are analyzed through the following criteria.
Thorough identification and review of the root causes and origins of compliance and data protection risks.
Assessment of the volume and breadth of personal data categories held and processed across systems.
Identification of categories of personal data that require additional security measures under applicable regulations.
Evaluation of the importance of the application or business process to the organization's core activities.
Analysis of how many individuals are affected and the nature of their relationship to the data processing activities.
Review of who receives personal data, what types and categories are transferred, and whether recipient security is guaranteed.
Assessment of the degree to which risks are visible or detectable by external parties, regulators, or affected individuals.
Understanding how potential risk materialization would affect operational continuity and business performance.
Defining the specific legal, financial, operational, and reputational consequences should a risk event occur.
Determining the probability that identified consequences may occur, including the factors that increase or reduce that likelihood.
Evaluation of current controls and processes that minimize negative risks or enhance the organization's compliance posture.
Outcomes
Every Plainex consultancy engagement concludes with a clear, written deliverable — a findings report and remediation roadmap that your legal, IT, and compliance teams can act on immediately.
We don't leave you with a list of problems. We leave you with a prioritised, costed, and assignable plan for closing compliance gaps — with timelines, ownership, and validation criteria built in.
Compliance Gap Report
A detailed mapping of your current compliance posture against GDPR and KVKK requirements.
Prioritized Risk Register
Ranked list of identified risks by likelihood and impact to guide remediation sequencing.
Remediation Roadmap
Actionable recommendations with clear steps to close gaps and achieve regulatory alignment.
Technical & Process Analysis
Evaluation of both IT infrastructure and organizational processes to identify exposure points.
Talk to a Plainex consultancy specialist and take the first step toward a complete, defensible, and sustainable data protection programme.