GDPR compliance as a Flemish business owner
If you run an SME in Flanders, you have probably heard about the GDPR (in Dutch often referred to as the AVG, the Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming). You know you need to comply. You may even have tried reading the regulation itself and given up somewhere around article 30.
The reality for most Flemish business owners is straightforward: you need proper documentation, but you do not have the time, budget, or legal expertise to produce it yourself. English-language tools feel foreign. Generic templates do not match your situation. And hiring a privacy consultant for 2,000 to 5,000 EUR is hard to justify when you have 3, 10, or 25 employees.
GDPRWise was designed to solve exactly this problem.
A Dutch-language tool that understands Flemish businesses
GDPRWise is not an English platform with a Dutch translation bolted on. The Dutch-language experience is native, covering the entire journey from your first scan to your completed dossier.
That matters more than you might think. Privacy documentation needs to be in a language your customers understand, your employees can read, and your accountant can work with. When your baker’s privacy policy reads like it was written by a London law firm, it does not inspire confidence.
With GDPRWise, your privacy policy, processing register, employee privacy policy, and cookie documentation are all generated in natural Dutch. Clear, professional, and immediately usable.
How the platform works
GDPRWise follows a three-layer approach that minimises the work you need to do while maximising the quality of the result.
Step 1: AI-powered website scan
Enter your website URL and the AI scanner goes to work. Within 2 minutes, it detects:
- All cookies your website places, including those set by plugins and third-party services
- Tracking scripts from Google Analytics, Facebook, LinkedIn, and others
- Forms that collect personal data, from contact forms to newsletter sign-ups
- Third-party scripts loaded by your website builder, CMS, or marketing tools
The scanner also identifies your sector, which determines the foundation of your dossier. Each finding is labelled with a confidence level: “Detected” for items the AI is certain about, and “Needs review” for items that need your input.
Step 2: Sector-specific dossier foundation
Based on your detected sector, GDPRWise loads a pre-built dossier that already contains the processing activities, legal bases, and retention periods that are standard for your type of business.
For Flemish SMEs, GDPRWise covers the sectors that make up the backbone of the Flemish economy:
Retail and e-commerce - Customer databases, loyalty cards, online shops, payment processing, delivery services. Whether you run a local shop in Ghent or an online store shipping across Belgium, the dossier covers your typical data flows.
Construction and trades - Subcontractor management, site access logs, project documentation, company vehicle tracking. The construction sector in Flanders has specific processing patterns that GDPRWise understands.
Healthcare and care providers - Patient records, appointment scheduling, health data, referral letters, electronic prescriptions. Health data is a special category under the GDPR and requires specific safeguards that the sector dossier covers.
Hospitality and food service - Reservations, customer reviews, staff scheduling, delivery platforms. From a restaurant in Antwerp to a hotel on the coast, the processing activities are mapped.
Professional services - Accountants, lawyers, architects, consultants. Client files, financial records, professional correspondence, all with the correct legal bases and retention periods.
Manufacturing - Supplier data, production records, quality management systems, logistics. The manufacturing sector dossier covers the data processing typical for production-oriented Flemish businesses.
This sector foundation means you start with a dossier that already covers 60-80% of your situation. You refine and complete it, rather than building everything from scratch.
Step 3: Guided refinement
The platform asks you a series of targeted questions about your specific business. Do you use camera surveillance? Do you have employees? Do you share data with subcontractors? Do you process data outside the EU?
These are plain-language questions, not legal puzzles. Based on your answers, the dossier is tailored to your exact situation. Sections that do not apply are removed. Sections that need detail are expanded.
Complete your dossier in one session
One of the practical advantages for busy Flemish business owners: you can complete the entire process in a single session. The AI scan takes 2 minutes. The guided refinement typically takes 1 to 3 hours, depending on the complexity of your business.
That means you can block an afternoon, sit down with a coffee, and walk away with a complete GDPR dossier containing:
- Your processing register with all activities documented
- A privacy policy ready to publish on your website
- A cookie report mapping every cookie and tracker
- An employee privacy policy for your staff
- An action list with any remaining items prioritised
- A compliance score showing where you stand
Of course, you do not have to finish in one sitting. You can save your progress and return at any time. But the point is that it is possible to go from zero to compliant in a single afternoon. Try getting that from a consultant.
Free for Flemish SMEs of any size
GDPRWise is designed for small businesses, not for enterprises.
Free Scan gives you the full package at no cost. AI scan, complete dossier, all documents, compliance score. No account, no credit card needed. The result is yours to keep. This is ideal if your website and business are fairly stable.
Peace of Mind (EUR 29/month, yearly billing) is a subscription that adds ongoing monitoring. GDPRWise periodically rescans your website, compares results to your previous scan, and alerts you when something changes. A new cookie appeared after a website update? A tracking pixel was added by a plugin update? You will know immediately. For businesses that want to stay compliant without having to remember to check, this is the low-effort option.
Both options are a fraction of what you would pay a Flemish privacy consultant. And instead of waiting weeks for a report, you have your documentation the same day.
Why Flemish businesses choose GDPRWise
The combination is hard to beat: a Dutch-language tool that understands your sector, automates the heavy lifting through AI scanning, and delivers a complete dossier in hours rather than weeks. For Flemish SMEs that want to tick the GDPR box properly without draining their budget or calendar, GDPRWise is the practical choice.
Scan your website for free and discover what cookies, trackers, and scripts are active. No account or credit card needed. Complete dossier in Dutch, ready in one session.