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Cybersecurity 30m

Data Privacy & GDPR/CCPA Basics
For teams handling customer data

This compliance-focused privacy-awareness course is for SMB employees who handle customer data in daily operations. It provides documented, SCORM-ready annual training that helps organizations reduce regulatory risk, support vendor due diligence, and demonstrate that employees understand how to handle personal data responsibly.

Data Privacy & GDPR/CCPA Basics: For teams handling customer data

What this course covers

  • The basics of data privacy and why GDPR and CCPA matter even to SMBs that are not large enterprises.
  • The difference between personal data, sensitive data, and routine business information handled in customer-facing workflows.
  • Core employee responsibilities for collecting, using, storing, sharing, and deleting customer data safely.
  • Common privacy risks, including oversharing, weak access controls, poor email habits, unsecured files, and unauthorized disclosures.
  • How to recognize and escalate possible privacy incidents, consumer requests, and compliance concerns using internal procedures.
  • How documented employee training supports recurring compliance, audit readiness, and defensible risk management in regulated or data-sensitive industries.

Modules

Module 1: Why Data Privacy Matters for SMBs

This module introduces privacy compliance as a business requirement, not a legal side topic. It connects employee handling of customer data to risk management, compliance expectations, client trust, and the broader SMB demand for documented annual training.

Module 2: Privacy Basics — Personal Data, Sensitive Data, and Business Context

This module gives learners a practical foundation in what counts as personal data and why certain information requires extra care. It avoids legal complexity and focuses on the customer information employees commonly see and the responsibilities that come with handling it.

Module 3: GDPR and CCPA in Plain Language

This module explains the core purpose of GDPR and CCPA without turning the course into a legal seminar. Learners are introduced to the practical idea that customers have rights over their personal data and that organizations must handle those rights carefully and consistently.

Module 4: Collecting and Using Customer Data Responsibly

This module focuses on lawful, minimal, and role-appropriate data-handling behaviors in day-to-day work. It emphasizes that collecting too much information, keeping it too long, or using it in unexpected ways can create unnecessary compliance risk.

Module 5: Safe Storage, Sharing, and Access Controls

This module teaches employees how to protect customer data after it is collected. It covers secure storage, limited sharing, access discipline, and avoiding common mistakes such as sending files to the wrong recipient or leaving data in unsecured locations.

Module 6: Privacy Risks in Email, Collaboration, and Everyday Workflows

This module shows how privacy incidents often happen through routine work habits rather than dramatic attacks. It focuses on misdirected emails, oversharing in chat tools, exposed spreadsheets, copied customer data, and sending sensitive information through insecure channels.

Module 7: Recognizing and Reporting Privacy Incidents and Requests

This module teaches learners how to respond when something goes wrong or when a customer raises a privacy-related concern. It emphasizes rapid escalation, accurate documentation, and avoiding informal handling of incidents or formal rights requests.

Module 8: Compliance Review, Final Assessment, and Employee Commitments

This final module reinforces the course’s essential privacy practices and ties them to annual compliance documentation. It prepares learners to complete a final assessment and acknowledge their role in protecting customer data as part of everyday work responsibilities.

Course features

SCORM 1.2 or 2004 Audio Narration Captions Transcript Knowledge Checks Locked Navigation Post-Assessment Certificate
Frequently asked questions

Who should take Data Privacy & GDPR/CCPA BasicsFor teams handling customer data?

This compliance-focused privacy-awareness course is for SMB employees who handle customer data in daily operations.

How long does the course take?

About 30 minutes, delivered across 8 modules with knowledge checks.

What does the course cover?

The basics of data privacy and why GDPR and CCPA matter even to SMBs that are not large enterprises; The difference between personal data, sensitive data, and routine business information handled in customer-facing workflows; Core employee responsibilities for collecting, using, storing, sharing, and deleting customer data safely; Common privacy risks, including oversharing, weak access controls, poor email habits, unsecured files, and unauthorized disclosures; How to recognize and escalate possible privacy incidents, consumer requests, and compliance concerns using internal procedures; How documented employee training supports recurring compliance, audit readiness, and defensible risk management in regulated or data-sensitive industries.

Do learners receive a certificate?

Yes. The course issues a certificate on completion. It ships SCORM 1.2 or 2004 with audio narration, captions, transcript, and runs on the Provisant learning platform.

How much does it cost?

$5 per user per course per year. Annual billing saves 20%. Any course in the catalog can be added to a plan.