PRIVACY SIMPLIFIED
We help organizations, big and small, make sense of privacy and information security regulations. We bring decades of experience in both private practice and industry to serve you.
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Whether you are building a privacy program from the ground up, want extra hands on a project, need Data Protection Officer services, or just have a nagging privacy question you can’t solve, we can help.
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Contact us for a free consultation: info@privacysmarter.com
OUR SERVICES
PrivacySmart offers a broad range of advisory services to help your business comply with privacy and information security regulations.​
DATA PRIVACY OFFICER
Full suite of DPO services to fulfill your business’s privacy regulatory obligations on your behalf
PRIVACY PROGRAM SERVICES
- Program Design & Build
- Training Content & Delivery
- Risk Assessments
- Third Party Risk
- Privacy by Design
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PRIVACY TECHNOLOGY
- Technology sourcing & assessment
- Technology implementation
- Technology support
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OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
- Incident Response
- Data Subject Rights
- Regulatory Inquiries
- Customer Complaints
- Third-Party Audits
INDUSTRY CERTIFICATION
Support for your team's efforts in applying for industry certifications like EU Cloud Code of Conduct, ISO 27701, etc.
PRIVACY TRANSACTION SUPPORT
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Licensing
- Joint Ventures & Collaborations
- Divestment & Spin Offs
- Integrations
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SPECIAL PROJECTS
- Binding Corporate Rules
- Data Ethics Advisory Panels
- New Product / Service Launches
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GLOBAL PRIVACY LAWS
GDPR, UK GDPR, LGPD, PIPEDA
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SECTOR-SPECIFIC
HIPAA, FERPA, GLBA, COPPA
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US STATE LAWS
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Virginia, State Data Breach Notification & Security Laws
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CONSUMER
CAN-SPAM, TCPA, Telemarketing Sales Rule
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We can support projects across regulatory and industry frameworks that may apply to your business.
ABOUT US
PrivacySmart provides the kinds of services we would have wanted to hire when we were in your shoes. It’s easy to hire us, easy to work with us and easy to get the results you were hoping for so you can move on to the next thing on your list.
Whether you are a business leader without a dedicated legal or compliance internal resource, a legal or compliance leader without a specialized privacy department, or a privacy leader with a project that you need to kickstart or accelerate, PrivacySmart can help. We can assemble a team of one, 10 or 100 depending on your needs.
PrivacySmart was founded by Karen Sewell in 2023 to help her friends and colleagues with the kinds of problems many of you are also facing as you try to incorporate privacy and information security compliance into your business operations. Karen is passionate about privacy. She loves helping companies overcome the challenges to meeting evolving privacy and security standards in a way that employees understand and embrace and customers and partners recognize and appreciate.
MEET OUR TEAM
KAREN SEWELL
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Karen brings two decades of professional experience in private practice, in-house legal and compliance leadership roles across industries and geographies to help solve your privacy, data governance and compliance challenges.
JAKE HARRELL
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Jake’s 20 years of professional experience span complex commercial and IP litigation, internal investigations and digital health. Most recently he led R&D data strategy, governance and digital transformation at one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.
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CONTACT
PrivacySmart Consulting, P.C.
26 E. Scranton Ave., #172
Lake Bluff, Illinois 60044