Leaving an IT Provider: Essential Guide to Avoid Data Risk
When a support contract ends, the asset most likely to go missing is the one nobody put a price on. This guide explains where your data physically lives, who owns which parts of it under UK data protection law, what a realistic thirty-day handover looks like, which systems are lost most often, how to demand exports in formats you can actually open, how to obtain evidence that the outgoing supplier destroyed its copies, what a clean exit costs in the UK, and the contract clauses that make the whole process routine rather than adversarial next time round.
