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Essentials course

Handling Personal Data at Work

The everyday rules for personal data: what it is, the principles for handling it, sharing and keeping it safely, people's rights, and reporting a breach.

  • Format Online, self-paced
  • Scope 7 lessons
  • Duration About 60 min
  • Cost Included in your subscription
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About this course

This course explains what personal data is and the principles for handling it in everyday work. It covers sharing data safely inside and outside the organization, how long to keep it and how to delete it, the rights people have over their data, and how to recognize and report a data breach. It’s written for every employee, since almost everyone handles personal data in some form.

Personal data is everywhere at work: in spreadsheets, emails, customer systems and shared folders. Most people don’t think of a customer list or a colleague’s sick-leave note as something that needs special care, so it gets sent to the wrong person, kept indefinitely or shared with a vendor without checking. Everyday mistakes like these lead to data breaches, complaints and lost customer trust.

  • Scenarios and a knowledge check
  • Web and mobile app, including offline

Content

  1. Lesson 1

    What personal data is

  2. Lesson 2

    The principles

  3. Lesson 3

    Handling data at work

  4. Lesson 4

    Sharing data safely, inside and outside the organization

  5. Lesson 5

    Keeping and deleting data

  6. Lesson 6

    People's rights

  7. Lesson 7

    Breaches and how to report them

Who it is for

  • All employees

Fee and registration

Included in your subscription

How to get started

  1. Book a demo

    We show the Course Library on your own use case and set up your subscription.

  2. Add your people

    Invite your users to TechClass. Each user license includes every Essentials course.

  3. Assign the course

    Pick it from the Course Library and assign it to everyone, or to the roles that need it. Completions and certificates are recorded for your reporting.

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Questions, answered

Handling Personal Data at Work FAQ

Yes. Every TechClass user license includes the Essentials courses in the Course Library, and this is one of them. There is no fee per course or per learner.

About 60 minutes, in short lessons. It is self-paced, so a learner can stop and continue on any device, including the mobile app, and offline.

Yes. A certificate of completion is issued when the knowledge check is passed, and the completion is recorded for your reporting.

It supports one, where a rule asks that people are trained on the subject, and TechClass records who completed it. Whether a requirement is met depends on your own policies and processes, so that is a question for your compliance lead or legal adviser.

Library courses are ready to use as they are. You can build and fully edit your own courses in TechClass, including from your own policies with the AI Course Creator, and combine both in one learning program.

An Essentials course gives everyone the concepts and rules in about an hour. A Skills course goes deeper for the roles that need it: about 8 hours with practice, a graded assessment and a certificate that lists the skills, licensed per learner.

English, at this stage.

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The everyday rules for personal data: what it is, the principles for handling it, sharing and keeping it safely, people's rights, and reporting a breach.

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