About gdprIQ
What gdprIQ is
gdprIQ is a small, independent site built around six free GDPR calculators, a wiki-sourced reference section, and a museum. No accounts, no sign-up — the calculators run in your browser and the rest is just here to read.
The tools
Six calculators, each built around one recurring GDPR question:
- GDPR Fine Calculator— an illustrative Article 83 ceiling from turnover and infringement tier
- Breach Notification Deadline — the Article 33 72-hour window, counted from when you became aware of a breach
- DSAR Deadline Calculator — a request’s response-due date, one month or three where the complexity extension applies
- Data Retention Schedule — disposal dates across your data categories, flagged as in-retention, due soon, or overdue
- Consent Expiry Calculator — when an opt-in should be refreshed, from the consent date and your policy interval
- Compliance Readiness Checklist — a scored, prioritised gap list across ten core essentials, from lawful basis to processor agreements
How they work
Each calculator takes the dates or figures you type in and runs the arithmetic the regulation actually specifies — nothing is uploaded, stored, or sent anywhere; the maths happens in your browser tab. Close the tab and the inputs are gone; there’s nothing to come back to later because nothing was kept in the first place.
Where the numbers come from
The fine tiers, the 72-hour breach window, the one-month DSAR deadline, and the ten items on the readiness checklist come from the text of the regulation itself and widely published supervisory-authority guidance — not from a formula we made up.
Learn & the museum
The Learnsection is a wiki-sourced reference companion in four parts — GDPR Fundamentals, Data Security, Privacy Concepts, and Compliance in Practice — every entry drawn from Wikipedia. The Museum of Privacy & Secretstakes a longer view: four wings covering Ciphers & Secrets, Watchers & Surveillance, The Law & Rights, and Data & the Machine, from the Enigma machine and the Panopticon to landmark privacy rights and the machines of the data age — also sourced from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. The blog goes deeper on specific topics: consent, cross-border transfers, breach response, retention, and DSARs.
What this isn’t
gdprIQ is not a law firm and doesn’t review your organisation’s specific processing activities. It isn’t affiliated with the European Union, the EDPB, or any supervisory authority, and referencing GDPR articles here doesn’t make this an official or endorsed source on them. Every calculator produces an estimate from whatever you type into it, not a legal opinion — for an actual compliance decision, talk to a qualified data-protection lawyer or your supervisory authority.
Straight talk about ads
The site is free and supported by advertising — that’s the whole business model, no premium tier and no accounts to sell. If a calculator misbehaves or something reads wrong, get in touch.