Data Retention Policy Compliance

This one-day course will provide practical guidance regarding the application of GDPR in creating and evaluating a data retention policy for your organisation. The course will explore how to utilise data governance, and how to understand the principles of GDPR when relating to personal data. Attendees will learn how to manage data subject rights, how to improve internal engagement within your organisation when it comes to data compliance, and how to correctly process data for historical or statistical purposes.

All attendees will gain hugely practical insights, will have an opportunity to engage in a Q&A to address issues relating to their organisation specifically, and will also receive a full course pack to refer back to during and after the course.

Course Content

• Creating a Data Retention Policy
• The aims and objectives of the policy
• Legal bases for processing data in relation to retention periods
• Managing data subject rights in relation to their data retention
• Data Governance – Data Management Book of Knowledge

• Leveraging your data governance methodologies and your register of processing activities to complete your retention policy
• Internal engagement/Implementation of a Retention Policy
• Maximising your time: alignment with Art. 30 required Register of Processing Activities
• Processing for historical, statistical or scientific purposes

Who Should Attend?

This course is ideally suited to anyone currently fulfilling a Data Protection Officer role within an organisation, who looks after the data management of records with personal information, ensuring they are all updated and comply with the GDPR on retention of information.

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