Data Protection

NOVE’s data protection team offers comprehensive data protection solutions to our clients starting from an audit to regular services of a data protection officer. We support the internal data protection teams of our clients as necessary with our advice in any more complicated specific matters. We especially specialise in the protection and processing of health data as a special category of personal data in the health sector.

In relation to data protection, we provide assistance to our clients in the following areas:

  • Full data protection audit
  • Preparation of data protection documents (data protection terms and conditions, overview of processing, register of infringements)
  • Conducting impact assessment under the GDPR 
  • Data protection in employment relationships (employment agreement, internal rules for personal data processing, terms and conditions of data protection in processing of employees’ data)
  • Consent forms for marketing purposes 
  • Regulatory cloud compliance
  • Representation in communication with the Data Protection Inspectorate 
  • Data protection training 
  • Data protection officer services 

Data protection team:

Sten Tikerpe (team leader and contact person)
Mari Past

Our portfolio includes: 

  • Advising the University of Tartu on the use of the Estonian Biobank, a database of genetic and health data of more than 200 000 people in Estonia, in research aimed at medical innovation
  • Data protection audit of Medicum, the largest group of private health care undertakings in Estonia, preparation of data protection documents and provision of data protection officer services 
  • Advising in the area of data protection and preparation of the data protection documents for Creative Union, the largest group of creative agencies in Estonia 
  • Data protection training for the Estonian Bar Association members and other law offices
  • Advising Prisma Peremarket on subjects related to data protection
  • Providing data protection officer services and preparation of the data protection documents for Julius Inkasso group, the largest collection service provider in Estonia 
  • Data protection audit and preparation of data protection documents for SA Haapsalu Neuroloogiline Rehabilitatsioonikeskus, the largest rehabilitation hospital in Estonia 
  • Preparation of data protection documents for the Estonian Diabetes Centre, a private clinic specialising in treatment in the field of endocrinology 
  • Preparation of data protection documents for the Fetal Ultrasound Screening Centre, the private clinic of Dr Marek Šois
  • Advising Medemis, a beauty clinic with long-term experience, in relation to data protection law 
  • Data protection training for the Estonian Traders Association, Estonian Hospitals Association and Estonian E-Commerce Association 
  • Specialised data protection training for health care undertakings, dental clinics, real estate brokers, marketers and advertising agencies