Book a data protection consultation

A consultation can cover a wide range of privacy questions, provided they fit within a focused one-off session. Common topics include what personal information you collect, whether your notices and consent wording match your actual practices, how information is stored or shared with service providers, how long it is kept, and whether current policies reflect what the business is really doing. It can also be useful if you are launching a new feature, changing a workflow or trying to work out which privacy document or next legal step is most appropriate.

This option often suits businesses that have a defined question and want legal input before deciding whether more work is needed. For example, you may want a lawyer's view on a proposed data collection method, a concern about customer consent wording, a vendor data-sharing arrangement, or whether your current privacy materials are out of date. It is also useful for founders and operations teams who need a clearer picture of the main legal issues first. If the issue turns out to require drafting or a deeper review, that can be identified after the call.

It helps to come prepared with a short summary of the issue, copies of any relevant privacy wording or internal documents, and a practical explanation of what your business is doing with the information in question. Useful details include what data you collect, why you collect it, where it comes from, who you share it with, and whether any third-party platform is involved. The document needs to line up with your actual privacy practices, including how information moves through the business, so concrete examples usually make the consultation much more useful than broad descriptions alone.

Broader work may be needed if your issue involves multiple documents, a new product rollout, sensitive information handling, a complex vendor chain, or a gap between what your business says publicly and what happens operationally. For example, if the consultation reveals that your consent wording, privacy policy and internal process all need updating together, a one-off call may not be enough on its own. In that case, the consultation still has value because it helps identify the right next legal task rather than treating every privacy problem as the same kind of job.

After the call, you should have a clearer view of the main privacy issues, the areas that may need attention, and whether the next step is a document update, a more detailed review or an internal process change. In some cases, the consultation is enough to answer a discrete question. In others, it helps narrow the issue so any follow-up legal work is more targeted. The service is focused on the legal work described here, with any wider compliance position depending on facts outside the fixed-fee scope, especially if your actual practices differ from the information discussed.

Just submit an enquiry via this page or click the 'get started' button on our website to submit an enquiry. After you've submitted an enquiry, one of our legal consultants will review your enquiry within 1 business day and get in touch to get a better idea of exactly what you are looking for.

Then your legal consultant will send through an email with a bit more information about the services you need, along with a fixed fee quote setting out costs, scope of the service and timing. Have a read through it, and if you're happy with the scope, you can accept and sign our engagement letter online - easy!

Once you've formally accepted, we'll connect you with a specialist lawyer and they will work with you to complete your project. They will contact you by email or phone if they need to get in touch.

Sprintlaw works on fixed-fee pricing wherever possible, so you can review the scope and cost before you decide whether to proceed. For the Data Protection Consultation service, pricing starts from $200.00.

After you enquire, a legal consultant will confirm what is included, the expected timing and whether any extra work is needed before you engage us.

We operate completely online, which means we can help you wherever you are in New Zealand. We have office spaces in Sydney, and in Melbourne, but our use of technology allows our team members to work remotely from around the world. Our legal team are mostly based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. We also have a London office for Sprintlaw UK.

Our legal team is made up of experienced lawyers, who are specialists in various areas of law and hold an Australian legal practising certificate. None of our Sprintlaw lawyers are New Zealand qualified lawyers and they do not currently hold a New Zealand practising certificate.

They provide legal services working remotely from Australia via our 'legal consultancy' model, through which (under section 6 and section 35 of the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006) our Australian legal team are permitted to provide legal services to New Zealand businesses provided they do not provide services in certain 'reserved' areas of law. You can read our FAQ page to learn a bit more about our 'legal consultancy' model.

Given the strong similarities between Australian and New Zealand law, and the areas of law in which we practice (being small business and startup law), we do not view the fact that our lawyers have not qualified in New Zealand as having any substantive impact on the quality of our service. We are committed to ensuring that we provide high quality, affordable legal services to all our New Zealand clients.

Our legal team have all trained at leading firms, but have left the traditional corporate law world to join us on our mission to create a new and better way of delivering legal services. They have specialist expertise in technology law, intellectual property law, contract drafting and review, corporate law and commercial law.