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UK GDPR: choose your ‘lawful basis’ for processing personal data
Under the UK GDPR, you must identify a lawful basis (or legal reason) you can use to justify why you process personal data. Use our guidance to work out which of the 6 lawful bases to use and avoid wasting time seeking consent you don't need.
Contents
- You must identify a lawful basis to process personal data
- Summary of each basis
- Use the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)'s self-assessment tool to identify which basis you can use
- Guide to completing the self-assessment
Additional conditions for special category and criminal offence data- What do we do once we've identified our lawful basis?
- 2021 exams: how to respond to subject access requests (SARs)
- 'Cheat sheet' for data protection officers
- Child protection records: transfer guidance
- Data protection impact assessments
- Data protection impact assessments: role of the DPO
- DPO's report to governors: template
- Email security: sending personal data
- Freedom of information: responding to requests
- GDPR mythbuster
- GDPR: personal data breach procedure
- GDPR: seeking consent for processing personal data
- GDPR: using technology to deliver remote learning
- Help your staff understand the GDPR: posters and handout
- How to respond to subject access requests in the summer holidays
- International data transfers under the UK GDPR
- Parents' right to access their child's educational record
- Pupil records: transferring to other schools or providers
- Role of the data protection officer (DPO)
- Schools' reporting requirements
- 'Special category' data under the UK GDPR
- Subject access requests: guidance and template forms
- Taking and displaying pupil photos and information
- Taking documents home: securing personal data
- QuickRead: The UK GDPR
- The UK GDPR: summary
- UK GDPR: at what age can pupils give consent?
- UK GDPR audit
- UK GDPR: ensuring your suppliers are compliant
- UK GDPR: sharing safeguarding information
- UK GDPR: staff briefing
- UK GDPR: template record of processing activities
- UK GDPR: using apps and online services with pupils
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