Embedded privacy for regulated teams
Privacy, run as a standing function. Not a one-time fix.
Douro Data embeds as your privacy and consent function: a defined scope, a steady cadence, and an audit-ready record. For financial services, digital health, and other teams that carry real regulatory downside and do not yet have privacy in-house.
- 2026-06-02 Quarterly compliance review completed
- 2026-05-18 Erasure request closed, 4 systems verified
- 2026-05-04 Consent scan, no drift across CMP + GTM
- 2026-04-30 Cookie policy updated for jurisdiction change
Built for
Financial services and digital health first, alongside other regulated, data-sensitive operators.
Coverage
GDPR, UK GDPR, and CCPA / CPRA across the jurisdictions you actually operate in.
Proven
A financial-services client, compliant in about three weeks, run quietly as their function for the year since.
What this is
Not an audit you buy once. A function you run.
Most privacy spend buys a snapshot: a review, a banner, a report that is stale within a quarter. An embedded function is different. You get the privacy and consent work handled continuously, by one accountable owner, on your stack and your cadence. The kind of role you would otherwise hire for, without the headcount.
01 Embedded operation
We run it, on a defined cadence
A monthly check-in, a quarterly review, and a one-business-day response standard, with a same-day path for genuine incidents. Defined availability, not the open-ended kind that quietly erodes.
02 Program coverage
The whole privacy surface, not one banner
Consent and tag management, data-subject requests, record-keeping, monitoring, policy upkeep, and data mapping when you need it. The program, not a point fix.
03 Evidence on the record
Proof assembled as you go
Every consent log, request, decision, and risk note lives in the Douro Privacy Ledger. When a partner, regulator, or acquirer asks, the answer is already on file.
04 One accountable owner
You manage an outcome, not a tool
Vendor-agnostic across your CMP, tag manager, and CRM. We work with the stack you have. You are responsible for staying compliant; we are responsible for making that true.
The service envelope
A defined service, with real edges.
A higher standard of service is a more defined one, not an open-ended one. Here is what the retainer covers, and what is a named add-on. Clear edges are how the function stays both accountable to you and sustainable for us.
Included in the retainer
- Weekly automated scans across your CMP and connected systems
- Monthly update cycle and a quarterly compliance review
- Consent, GTM, and CRM integrations configured and maintained
- Cookie policy and privacy notice updates for your covered jurisdictions
- Routine data-subject requests up to an agreed monthly volume
- Ongoing record-keeping with independent backup
- Douro Privacy Ledger access, included at no extra charge
- Defined support cadence and a one-business-day response standard
Named add-ons, quoted on request
- Foundational Data Map, for general compliance and audit readiness
- Comprehensive Data Map, for financial-services-grade needs and AI readiness
- High-volume or complex multi-system request handling
- Full breach and incident response beyond initial triage
- Custom engineering and integration work
- Staff training delivery
- Audit or diligence support beyond providing existing records
Engagements are scoped to your footprint and priced as a monthly retainer. We scope before we quote, so the number reflects your systems, your jurisdictions, and your risk, not a package off a shelf.
Outcomes
What we actually take off your plate.
Consent that holds up
Your CMP, tag manager, and CRM configured and monitored so opt-outs are actually honored, with the record to prove it. The gap most teams cannot see in their own browser.
Requests that close cleanly
A defined intake and a cross-system path for access, erasure, and correction requests, so each one is handled and logged on time, not improvised under a deadline.
A data map you can stand behind
Know where customer data actually lives. It is the foundation for erasure, retention, breach response, and deciding which data is fit for AI use and which is not.
Audit and diligence readiness
When a partner security review, a regulator, or an acquirer asks for evidence, it is already assembled. Readiness becomes a file you open, not a fire drill you run.
Proof
Proven where the downside is real.
A real financial-services engagement, shown without the client’s name out of confidentiality. The work, the timeline, and the outcome are exactly as they happened.
We brought a financial-services client to a clean, compliant consent state in about three weeks, with a solution built around how their systems actually fit together and no disruption to their site or app.
A year on, we run privacy and consent as an embedded part of how they operate: monitoring, record-keeping, and reviews just running in the background, the evidence always on file, and a real answer whenever something comes up. It is a fully managed compliance function, without staffing one in-house.
The record layer
Every action, on the record: the Douro Privacy Ledger.
Compliance is only as strong as your ability to prove it. The Ledger is the record layer of the service: consent logs, privacy-request history, the decisions behind them, and your current risk posture, in one place. It is how a quiet year of good practice becomes something you can hand to a regulator, a partner, or an acquirer without scrambling.
Included for retainer clients at no additional charge. It is a feature of the function, not a separate tool to buy.
See the Ledger in a scoping conversationOpen privacy requests
All current, none overdue
Recent decisions
Erasure request, cross-system table
Request automation, deferred by volume
Risk posture
Recorded and current
How we start
Three steps, in order.
Step 01
Scoping conversation
We map your footprint, your jurisdictions, and where the real exposure sits. No charge, no obligation. If an embedded function is not the right move, we will say so.
Step 02
A defined scope of work
You get it in writing: what is covered, the cadence, the response standard, the retainer, and any add-ons. Edges stated up front, before anything starts.
Step 03
Embedded operation
We take over the consent, request, and record-keeping work and run it as your function, with the Ledger as your standing proof from day one.
Who this is for
A good fit, stated plainly.
Regulated and regulated-adjacent companies that carry asymmetric downside on data, with a buyer who would otherwise be hiring a privacy lead. Financial services and digital health first, alongside other operators handling sensitive customer data across more than one system and jurisdiction.
If you are after a one-time cookie banner fix or the cheapest possible audit, we are not the right fit, and we will tell you on the call. The value here is a function that runs, and the evidence that it does.
Questions
Before you book the call.
What does "embedded" mean here?
You get a privacy function, not a project. We run consent, requests, monitoring, and record-keeping on your stack and your cadence, as one accountable owner, the way an in-house lead would.
How is this priced?
A monthly retainer, scoped to your footprint. We scope before we quote. Add-ons such as data mapping are named and quoted separately. We do not do bare discounts or one-off audit pricing; any conditional rate is named and tied to something specific.
Do you replace our legal counsel?
No. We are the operational and technical privacy function alongside your counsel. Counsel advises on the law; we run the program and keep the evidence current. The two roles complement each other.
Do you do data mapping?
Yes, as a named add-on. A Foundational Data Map gives you a working inventory for general audit readiness. A Comprehensive Data Map goes system by system, for financial-services-grade needs and AI readiness.
What tools do you work with?
We are vendor-agnostic across consent platforms, tag managers, CRMs, and analytics. We work with the stack you already run rather than pushing a rip-and-replace.
Start here
Start a scoping conversation.
Tell us your vertical and where your data lives. We will tell you, honestly, whether an embedded privacy function is the right move, and what it would cover. No charge, no obligation.
Regulated-vertical focus · defined scope · evidence on the record