This Short Course was created to help Legal professionals draft, analyze, and evaluate fully compliant privacy policies. By completing this course, you'll be able to build a publication-ready policy with correct GDPR Article 6 bases, populated retention schedules, and verified opt-out mechanisms, skills you can apply immediately at your desk.

Write Compliant Privacy Policy

What you'll learn
Selecting the correct GDPR Article 6's basis is the most consequential compliance decision a legal team makes.
A dynamic data inventory reduces audit risk and accelerates rights-request responses across the organization.
A structured GDPR/CCPA checklist transforms a well-drafted policy into a defensible, publication-ready document.
Modular privacy policies built for emerging state laws and AI processing disclosures reduce costly future rework.
Skills you'll gain
- Personally Identifiable Information
- Data Collection
- Responsible AI
- Policy Analysis, Research, and Development
- Legal Writing
- Compliance Management
- Data Security
- Information Privacy
- Analysis
- Policy Analysis
- Policy Development
- Data Governance
- Compliance Auditing
- Regulatory Requirements
- Risk Management
- Data Mapping
- Data Processing
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Regulatory Compliance
- Law, Regulation, and Compliance
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September 2026
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