"Your teams make data decisions every day. This training makes sure they make the right ones."
Every organisation that handles personal data is accountable for it whether or not it has a dedicated privacy team. The GDPR sets clear expectations: lawful collection, documented decisions, enforced retention limits, and the ability to respond when individuals exercise their rights. When those expectations are not met, the consequences are not theoretical. The average GDPR fine now exceeds €2.6 million. Data breaches cost more in operational disruption and customer trust than they do in regulatory penalties.
MARVENQ GDPR training does not walk your teams through the law article by article. We build sessions around the decisions your people actually face what data HR can hold during a recruitment process, what marketing can collect with and without consent, what IT needs to document when selecting a new vendor. Your teams leave with clear frameworks, practical guardrails and the confidence to act without escalating every grey-area question to legal.
Core GDPR principles in practice
We cover the six lawful bases for processing personal data, the principles of data minimisation and purpose limitation, and how these apply to your teams' daily workflows. Participants leave understanding not just what the law says, but what it means for the decisions they make what data they can collect, what they should not, and how to document their reasoning in a way that holds up to scrutiny.
Data subject rights and how to handle them
Access requests, deletion requests, corrections and objections are among the most common areas where organisations fall short not because they lack goodwill, but because teams do not know what to do when a request arrives. We train your people to recognise these requests, respond within the correct timeframes, and escalate appropriately. This module is particularly relevant for customer-facing teams, HR and IT.
Privacy by Design and by Default
Article 25 of the GDPR does not just regulate what data you collect it requires that privacy is built into the design of every system and process that handles personal data. We translate this requirement into practical steps: how to structure a data analytics environment, how to configure recruitment tools, how to minimise data exposure when working with third-party vendors including the AI tools your teams are already using.
Data processing agreements and third-party risk
Most organisations share personal data with external parties software providers, marketing platforms, payroll processors and cloud services. We cover what data processing agreements must contain, how to assess third-party compliance, and what your organisation remains responsible for even when processing is done externally. This includes international data transfers under the GDPR frameworks currently in force.
GDPR for specific departments
We offer role-based modules tailored to the teams where privacy risk is highest. HR teams cover employee data, recruitment records and lawful retention periods. Marketing teams address consent management, email marketing compliance and tracking technologies. IT and product teams focus on privacy by design, data architecture and vendor selection. Finance teams cover payment data, retention and cross-border data flows.
MARVENQ GDPR training is designed for organisations of all sizes operating in or with the EU including companies based in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and internationally. Our sessions are particularly well-suited for fast-growing scale-ups building compliance infrastructure for the first time, established organisations updating training after regulatory changes, multinational teams who need a consistent standard across locations, and leadership teams who need to understand their governance obligations without the legal jargon.
Generic e-learning and one-size-fits-all compliance programmes share a well-documented problem: people complete them, score adequately, and continue making the same decisions as before. The behaviour does not change because the training was not built around the decisions people actually face. MARVENQ builds sessions around the specific friction points your organisation encounters the grey areas your teams struggle with, the requests they are unsure how to handle, the tools they are not sure they should be using. The result is training that is immediately relevant, easier to remember and more likely to produce lasting behaviour change.
GDPR does not prescribe specific training requirements, but Article 39 requires Data Protection Officers to raise awareness and train staff involved in processing operations. Regulators increasingly expect organisations to demonstrate appropriate training training records are regularly requested during audits and investigations. Practically, GDPR training is one of the most effective ways to reduce the risk of data breaches caused by human error.
MARVENQ offers GDPR training in formats ranging from 90-minute focused sessions for specific teams to full-day programmes for organisations building comprehensive compliance cultures. Most in-company sessions run between two and four hours, depending on team size and scope. Online courses are structured as modular sessions that can be completed in segments.
Yes. All MARVENQ training is delivered in English and covers both EU GDPR and UK GDPR frameworks, making it suitable for organisations with teams across multiple European countries or between the EU and the UK.
Yes. We tailor training to your industry and include sector-specific examples where relevant. Organisations in healthcare, financial services, HR technology, e-commerce and professional services all face distinct GDPR challenges and our sessions reflect those differences.
