Trust center

Trusted with your data, and your reputation.

Engage Compliance is a senior-led, EU-established privacy consultancy providing outsourced and fractional DPO services. This is how we keep client data secure and hold our work to the standard your customers, investors, and regulators expect.

Experience across 100+ companies including Amazon, Coinbase, and Robinhood.

Senior-led and team-delivered, with a named partner network for specialist work. No junior hand-offs.

Security and data protection

How we protect your data.

We apply layered technical and organizational measures, the kind GDPR Article 32 expects, so client data stays confidential, available, and under your control.

Technical measures

Encryption in transit and at rest

Personal data is encrypted in transit over TLS and at rest, including in backups.

Multi-factor authentication

MFA is enforced on the accounts and systems used to deliver our services.

Least-privilege access

Need-to-know access controls, so client data is reachable only by the people and systems that require it.

Encrypted backups

Backups are encrypted, so data stays protected at rest even in backup form.

Secure development practices

Changes go through version control and review, and application secrets are held in managed secret stores, never committed to source code.

EU data residency

Personal data is stored in the EU. Cross-border transfers are rare and, where they occur, are covered by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or Standard Contractual Clauses.

Organizational measures

Regular access reviews

Access rights are reviewed on a regular basis and revoked promptly when they are no longer needed.

Vendor and sub-processor due diligence

We assess sub-processors before onboarding and bind them by data processing agreements, with Standard Contractual Clauses where required.

Incident response and breach notification

A documented incident response and breach notification process, with 24/7 breach support for DPO clients.

Data minimization and retention limits

We collect only what is needed, store it in the EU, and return or delete client data at the end of our relationship.

Confidentiality and NDA obligations

All personnel are bound by confidentiality and NDA obligations, and we never disclose client identities without written permission.

Consent-gated, never sold

Analytics load only after consent. We do not sell or share personal data, and we honor opt-out and Global Privacy Control signals.

Credentials and expertise

Senior expertise you can verify.

Engage is senior-led and team-delivered. Every engagement is led by a senior practitioner and backed by a named partner network, never handed to junior staff.

The practice is led by founder Julian Gage, a privacy leader with 15+ years building and running data protection programs. He has served as Data Protection Officer, Chief Privacy Officer, and privacy lead across 100+ organizations, including senior in-house privacy roles earlier in his career at companies such as Amazon, Coinbase, and Robinhood.

  • Former IAPP Netherlands Chapter Chair (2019 to 2022)
  • Data Protection Officer, Chief Privacy Officer, and privacy lead across startups to Fortune 500 organizations
  • 30+ privacy and AI regimes covered from a single point of contact, with local counsel where required

Companies named reflect prior in-house roles and career experience, not current clients. Current client identities are kept confidential.

Certifications

  • CIPP/E
  • CIPM
  • CIPP/US
  • CIA
  • AIGP

IAPP and AI governance certifications held by our founder and senior team.

Coverage

Regulations and frameworks we work across.

We advise across privacy and AI regimes from a single point of contact, with local counsel where jurisdiction-specific legal advice is required.

Privacy and AI regulations we cover

  • EU GDPR
  • UK GDPR
  • EU AI Act
  • NIS2
  • DORA
  • ePrivacy / PECR
  • CCPA / CPRA
  • 20+ US state privacy laws
  • HIPAA
  • GLBA
  • Brazil LGPD
  • Canada PIPEDA
  • China PIPL
  • India DPDPA
  • Thailand PDPA
  • Japan APPI
  • South Korea PIPA
  • UAE and Saudi PDPL
  • Bahrain PDPL
  • and more

Security and privacy standards we advise on

  • ISO 27001
  • ISO 27701
  • SOC 2
  • NIST CSF
  • and more

These are standards we help clients meet and align to. They are frameworks Engage advises on, not certifications Engage itself holds.

Professional standing

Insured, established, and accountable.

Professional indemnity and cyber insurance

Every engagement is covered by professional indemnity and cyber insurance appropriate to the service.

Registered EU legal entity

Engage Data Consulting BV, registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KvK 82538638), Amsterdam.

Established and operating since 2021

EU-established as Engage Compliance, with a presence in Amsterdam and the US, serving companies from Seed to enterprise worldwide.

Accountable, named delivery

A named senior practitioner on every account, with a three-month notice period and no long-term lock-in.

Transparency

How we handle data, and who helps us deliver.

We keep our supply chain small and transparent. We use a limited set of established sub-processors to run this website and deliver our services. Client documents and personal data are processed only to deliver your engagement, stored in the EU, and returned or deleted at the end of our relationship.

Hosting and delivery

Website and application hosting on established cloud infrastructure.

Source control

Version control for our website and content.

Business email

Correspondence on EU-hosted business email.

Scheduling and forms

Intro calls, the contact form, and the risk survey.

Analytics, consent-gated

Privacy-friendly, consent-gated website analytics.

Consent management

The cookie consent platform that gates all non-essential tags.

Questions?

Questions about our security or compliance posture?

Talk to a senior member of the team, or start your assessment.