Courses take place in:

London

Charities have many and significant data protection compliance challenges. They will be concerned to ensure that their staff, donor, client and marketing information are processed in accordance with the requirements of data protection law.

This indispensable and unique one-day training course covers all data protection compliance issues involved in the administration of charities, including:

• practical advice on the obtaining, use and storage of donor and supporters’ data
• complying with requests for personal information from contacts, beneficiaries, donors, supporters, staff and volunteers
• ensuring compliance for fundraising, data sharing, trading and other activities
• the necessary formalities for the use of agents and contractors (e.g. brokers, payroll providers, website hosts) to process customer, beneficiary, staff and volunteer data
• the necessary content of all beneficiary and donor details acquisition forms, both online and offline
• practical advice on how to comply with the security obligations in the legislation
• an analysis of the ban on transfers of personal data outside the EEA and of the practical methods for circumnavigating the ban
• complying with the requirements for using sensitive personal data (e.g. religious information or health data)
• ensuring compliance with the Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 in marketing campaigns, particularly in the field of seeking donor contributions by email, fax and telephone
• the use of donor and beneficiary data obtained from third parties and list swaps

Delegates will learn about the practical application of data protection rules in the context of running a charity. There will be plenty of opportunity for questions in the session.

Attendance on this course can be used as an exemption from the requirement to attend Data Protection Essential Knowledge – Level 1 for candidates enrolling on the Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection Programme.