Data Privacy Audit Services

An independent audit of your data privacy program.

A clear, evidence-based read on what is working and what needs to change, from a firm with no stake in the result.

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Independent IT testing since 1988
Audit Scope

What a privacy audit covers

A TestPros audit examines your privacy program end to end, testing what you have in place against the laws that apply to your business.

  • Policies, Notices & Disclosures

    We review your privacy policy, consumer notices, and disclosures for accuracy and completeness against the law.

  • Data Inventory & Flows

    We verify what personal information you collect, where it lives, and how it moves through your systems and vendors.

  • Consumer-Rights Handling

    We test how access, deletion, correction, and opt-out requests are received, verified, and fulfilled.

  • Security Controls & Safeguards

    We assess the technical and organizational safeguards protecting personal data, on the evidence, not on assurances.

  • Vendor & Third-Party Practices

    We review the contracts and data-sharing arrangements with the vendors and partners that touch your data.

  • Gaps & Findings

    Every gap is logged with the evidence behind it and a clear, prioritized path to close it.

Who This Is For

Do you need a privacy audit?

Almost nobody goes looking for a privacy audit. Something prompts it: a regulation, a customer, a board, or an incident. If one of these sounds like you, an independent audit is the right next step.

  • Regulatory

    A regulation requires it

    More privacy laws now require an outside review instead of taking your word for it. The CCPA already requires an annual independent cybersecurity audit above its thresholds.

  • Contractual

    A customer is asking

    Enterprise procurement and vendor due diligence now routinely ask for third-party verification. A completed questionnaire is not the same as an audited opinion.

  • Expansion

    You are entering a new market

    Expanding into the EU, the UK, or California brings obligations your program has never been tested against. Better to find the gaps before a regulator does.

  • Unverified

    Nobody has tested your program

    The policies are written, the tools are in place, and the team believes it works. An audit is the difference between believing that and being able to show it.

  • Governance

    Your board wants assurance

    Right now leadership only has the team's own word for it. An outside opinion gives directors something they can act on and stand behind.

  • Incident

    Something has gone wrong

    A breach, a consumer complaint, or a regulator inquiry puts your practices under scrutiny. An independent read establishes where you actually stand.

The Independence Standard

An audit is only as good as its independence.

A firm that built your program, sold you the tools, or runs it day to day cannot objectively verify it. TestPros sells no privacy software, and we never audit a program we had a hand in building. One role per engagement, which is exactly what makes the finding worth something.

  • Nothing to sell

    We sell no privacy software or tools, so our findings are never steered toward a product we happen to offer.

  • One role per program

    TestPros offers both readiness consulting and independent audits, but never both on the same program. When we audit, we had no hand in building or running what we are assessing.

  • An honest opinion, not a badge

    There is no such thing as being "privacy-certified." You get an evidence-based opinion on where you actually stand.

The Process

How a TestPros privacy audit works

A defined path from scoping to a defensible report, built on evidence the auditor gathers directly.

Step One

Scope & Plan

We agree what to audit, which laws apply, and which systems and data are in scope, then build the audit plan around your business.

OutputAgreed Audit Scope
Step Two

Gather Evidence

We test controls against real evidence, through interviews, document review, sampling, and hands-on testing, not management assurances.

OutputEvidence-Linked Testing
Step Three

Findings & Report

You receive an evidence-based opinion on where you stand, with every gap logged, risk-rated, and paired with a prioritized path to close it.

OutputAudit Report & Roadmap
The Deliverable

The audit report you receive

An evidence-based opinion on where your privacy program stands, defensible to a regulator, a customer, or your own board.

Inside the Report

An evidence-based opinion, documented

Every TestPros privacy audit produces the documentation a regulator, customer, or board would expect to see. Six sections, evidence-linked throughout.

  • Auditor's Opinion

    A clear, evidence-based statement on the effectiveness of your privacy controls.

  • Scope & Methodology

    What was audited, against which laws, and how the evidence was gathered.

  • Findings by Area

    Policies, data flows, consumer rights, security, and vendors, each with the evidence behind it.

  • Risk-Rated Gaps

    Every gap logged and rated, so you know what to fix first.

  • Remediation Roadmap

    A prioritized path to close each gap, mapped to the applicable requirement.

  • Structured for Your Ticketing

    Findings map cleanly into Jira, Azure DevOps, and similar, so your team can act.

FAQ

Privacy audit questions, answered

What an audit is, what it produces, and why independence is the whole point.

What is a data privacy audit?

A data privacy audit is an independent examination of how your organization collects, uses, shares, and protects personal data, tested against the privacy laws that apply to you. It results in an evidence-based opinion on where your program stands, with the gaps identified and prioritized.

Is a privacy audit a certification?

No. There is no such thing as being "privacy-certified" for laws like GDPR or CCPA, and any firm that claims to issue one is not describing how compliance actually works. An audit gives you an independent, evidence-based opinion on the effectiveness of your controls, which is what regulators and customers actually want to see.

Why does the audit need to be independent?

An audit is verification, and verification only means something if the auditor has no stake in the result. A firm that built, sold you, or operates your privacy program cannot objectively assess it. TestPros sells no software and never audits a program it helped build, so the finding stands on the evidence alone.

What is the difference between an internal and a third-party audit?

An internal audit is run by your own team and is useful for self-checking, but it carries the bias of the people who built the program. An independent third-party audit brings an outside assessor with no stake in the outcome, which is what a regulator, customer, or board relies on for genuine assurance.

Which frameworks can you audit against?

We audit against the major privacy laws and standards, including GDPR, CCPA and CPRA, the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and ISO 27701, among others. Because many businesses fall under several at once, a single engagement can cover the overlap rather than running separate audits.

How long does a privacy audit take?

It depends on the scope, the number of systems and frameworks in play, and how ready your documentation is. We scope every engagement up front so the timeline and cost are clear before we begin, and we structure the work to keep the demand on your staff to a minimum. If your program is not yet built, our data privacy consulting gets it audit-ready first.

Ready When You Are

Find out where your privacy program actually stands.

Tell us your frameworks, systems, and timeline. We respond within one business day with a scoped audit plan.

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  • No software, no conflicts
  • ISO 27001 + CMMI ML3
  • Independent IT testing since 1988