DPO – Data protection officer

Externally appointed data protection officer (DPO)

INES BOLKOVAC - A Data Protection Officer

UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA - FACULTY OF LAW

CIPP/E - CERTIFIED INFORMATION PRIVACY PROFESSIONAL

EUROPET4DATA - DATA PROTECTION OFFICER IN PUBLIC SERVICES

EADPP - EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF DATA PROTECTION PROFESSIONALS, member

IAPP - INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PRIVACY PROFESSIONALS, member

I was born and educated in Rijeka. I am addicted to work, dogs and stars. I graduated from the Faculty of Law; I spent eleven years working in public sector and I worked twelve years in private sector, then I was an associate of head office administration for legal affairs in the branch of labour relations and protection of data at one of the leading state-owned companies relative to company property for business consulting and management. Thus, I've become a leader of Association of data protection in the homeland and abroad as well as a CEO of the Croatian center for personal data protection Feralis.

We emphasize experience and professional orientation to the public sector and the media, including activities relative to other fields.

Given a fact that data protection and privacy is the exclusive area of professional orientation, a considerable amount of resources is being invested in order to achieve high professionalism and expertise due to the numerous and continuing education and in particular membership in EADPP (European Association of data protection professionals) and IAPP organization (International Association of Privacy Professionals), PDPA's education with 100% score and international certification for the EU experts in the field of protection of privacy CIPP/E.

The DPO team brings together information security professionals for more than 20 years of work experience in senior positions in large information infrastructures and a certified Microsoft trainer, Lead Auditor for multiple ISO standards and attorneys with a considerable experience related to protecting personal information.

The designated Data Protection Officer is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The Data Protection Officer can be hired/appointed on a monthly basis, directly/individually for a certain purpose or via an online web shop.

The price of the service on a monthly basis relative to certain companies and business activities is available in the web shop, while for other types or more demanding business activities, one should make the enquiry.

In case when the DPO is engaged individually an hourly rate is £ 63 (minimum 4 hours).

They are usually appointed for consulting, assistance, incident assistance, responding to situations and inquiries, determining or verifying the justification for using a privilege, establishing or verifying a legitimate interest, reviewing and controlling documents of organizational protection measures, etc., and as an advisor to a designated security officer data.