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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Data protection relates to how all organisations collect, use, and store personal and sensitive data. That includes the government, companies, service providers and anyone who manages data.

Data protection legislation, which includes the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), aims to help prevent data misuse and inflicts penalties on those in breach of the law.

Our Data Protection Online Training Course will help your employees understand what personal and sensitive data are, why they need protection, and how to comply with the GDPR.
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  • 30 Minutes
  • All staff
  • Based on UK legislation, but suitable for global audiences upon the removal of UK-specific references and translation as necessary.

Learning objectives

  • Distinguish between non-personal, personal and special category ('sensitive') data
  • Recognise how our Company complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data protection legislation
  • Take appropriate action to safeguard personal and special category data
  • Identify how and when to report breaches

    What can you expect your employees to learn?

Introduction

What is Data Protection?

  • You decide: The importance of data protection
  • You decide: Breaches of data protection law
  • Crossing the line: Breaches of data protection law
  • Who is involved in data protection?
  • Personal data
  • Special category ('sensitive') data
  • You decide: Types of data


Data protection legislation

  • The GDPR
  • Rights of the data subject
  • Scenarios: Rights of the data subject

The data protection principles

Principle: Lawfulness, fairness & transparency

  • Lawful bases
  • Lawful basis: Consent
  • Scenario: Getting consent
  • Scenario: A customer withdraws consent
  • Scenario: Passing on contact details
  • Lawful basis: Legitimate interests
  • Legitimate interest assessments
  • You decide: LIAs
  • Documenting & reviewing LIAs
  • Data protection impact assessments

Principle: Data limitation

  • Scenario: An offer for a new service
  • Scenario: Contacting customers' connections

Principle: Data minimisation

  • Scenario: Information from job applicants
  • Scenario: Information from customers

Principle: Accuracy

  • You decide: Keeping data accurate & updated

Principle: Storage limitation

  • Scenario: Retaining job applicants' details
  • Scenario: Keeping details of former customers

Principle: Security, integrity & confidentiality

  • International transfers of personal data
  • Scenario: Gina's data transfer
  • You decide: Are additional safeguards required?

Data subject access requests

  • Dealing with DSARs
  • You decide: Is it a valid DSAR?

Personal data breaches

  • Scenarios: Personal data breaches
  • Notification of breaches
  • Scenario: Stolen data

Accountability & governance

  • Records of processing activities
 

Penalties

  • Crossing the line: Further breaches of data protection law

Your responsibilities

Summary

Affirmation

Assessment

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Your questions, answered

Data Protection (GDPR)

Common FAQs

Where can I track incidents involving personal data?

Tools such as a Data Breach Register enable you to log, track, and respond to data breaches and similar incidents efficiently. Skillcast offers this tool, making it easy to document and manage incidents in line with compliance requirements.

How can I ensure that employees formally attest to our internal Data Protection Policy?

Our Policy Hub tool allows you to easily assign policies, track when employees read them, and capture their attestation with a simple digital acknowledgement. The tool also provides automated reminders to employees who haven't yet acknowledged the policy, ensuring full compliance and a clear audit trail.

How can I ensure employees formally attest to our internal Data Protection Policy?

Our Policy Hub tool allows you to easily assign policies, track when employees read them, and capture their attestation with a simple digital acknowledgement. The tool also provides automated reminders to employees who haven't acknowledged the policy, ensuring full compliance and a clear audit trail.

Are the courses SCORM-compliant?

Yes. This means they can be delivered via the Skillcast Portal or any other SCORM-compliant Learning Management System.

What other tools are needed beyond training?

A comprehensive compliance solution often needs more than just training. Alongside e-learning, tools like declarations, surveys, and registers that track compliance tasks are usually essential. Skillcast provides full support to help you set up these additional tools.

Can users only view the courses assigned to them?

Yes. Users can view all the courses in the portal that have been assigned to them as either mandatory or optional. Courses that are mandatory will have a deadline shown.

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